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for Operation CASTLE.

Fallout predictions were based on weather observations andfon the results of previous operations, primarily those in Nevada, for witich the
most data were available.

Two types of analyses of weather-wigd data were

used in preparing the fallout predictions:

hodographs and trajectory fore-

casts of the paths that would be assumed by particles falling

grom a given

height through the various wind layers.
HODOGRAPHS.

A hodograph is a plot of wind speeds and direqtions.

presents a vector diagram representing the horizontal projectidn of the
Path of a wind-sounding balloon rising in the atmosphere at a
rate.

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The hodograph may also be considered to represent the hdrizontal

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