Floyd 1, wags in the topmost layers of the cloud at 55,000 feet
ed
absolute altitude and had to come down several thousand feet to
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conduct sampling.
Aprivate communication from Jere Knight
indicates that the topmost section of the cloud had a calcium
to fission ratio approximately 1% of that at lower altitudes.
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A picture of the cloud taken from the control airplane soon after shot time is shown in Fig. 11.2-l1 lying above
the cirrus cover.
In the original print dark portions suggest
that a considerable portion of the cloud lay below the cirrus
in the natural weather existing up to 37 - 38 thousand feet.
Figs. 11.2-2 and 11.2-3 show the cloud at later times after
burst when the wind shear effects can be seen from upwind and
cross-wind views respectively.
The long streamer seen in Fig.
11.2-3 4s the result of a wind velocity at 55,000 feet (absolute)
;
which is approximately 17 knots slower than at the cirrus level
and is an illustration that negative as well as positive
velocity shear can produce the. same relative effects.
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dimensional analysis of this photograph shows that the length
of the streamer is commensurate with this velocity shear.
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intensities observed were a factor of from five to nine lower
than for previous clouds at the same altitudes and times after
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notable characteristic of this cloud was that the radiation
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