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Project @.2-- Basic Thermal Radiation Measurements - W. B, Plum

OBJECTIVE
The objective of this project was to measure the time history of
irradiance, thermal radiant energy, and the spectral distribution of

thermal radiant energy from three stations with a time resolution of
20 msec; the irradiance and spectral distribution of irradiance from
two stations with a time resolution of 50 microseconds,

From these

data it was expected to get a general transmission coefficient for
the atmosphere, the transmission coefficients for the atmosphere for
narrow wavelength bands, scattering coefficients as a function of the

field of view, and the partition of

energy between the first and

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second thermal pulses,
INSTRUMENTATION
Three stations were instrumented for this shot.

Station 810.01 on

Yurochi (DOG), 34,940 feet from GZ; Station 811.01 on Aomoen (GEORGE),
48,979 feet from GZ; and Station 811.02 on Bikini (HOW), 92,628 feet
from GZ.

NRDL radiometers and calorimeters, listed below were used at

each station.

Two recorders were used at each station.

Duplicate in-

struments consisting of 11 calorimeters and one radiometer were connected to each Heiland oscillographic recorder.

COPIED/DOE
LANL RC

(1)

Total energy, quartz filter, 90 degree field of view

(2)

Total energy, quartz filter, 90 degree field of view

(3)

Spectral, 3-69 filter, 90 degree field of view

(4)

Spectral, 2-58 filter, 90 degree field of view

(5)

Spectral, RG-8 filter, 90 degree field of view

(6)

Spectral, 7-56 filter, 90 degree field of view

(7)

Field of view, quartz filter, 11 degree field of view

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