DEVICE INFORMATION
TABLE 2.1
Koa
Total yield, Mt’
Walnut
Oak
1.31 2 0.08
9 + 0.6
Fission yield, Mt
Location
Site Gene
Near Site Janet
4 miles south of Site
Shot time and
date
0630 M
13 May 1958
0630 M
15 June 1958
0730 M_
29 June 1958
Shot type
Land-surface
Water-surface, fired
Water-land surface,
from a barge in deep
water
fired from an LCU
anchoredin 15 feet
of water over the
lagoon reef
Alice
TABLE 2.2
CLOUD ALTIT UDE DATA
Approximate altitude in feet.
Koa
Walnut
Oak
Tropopause
57,000
§4,000
50,000
Light and variable layer
60,000+
55,000
55,000
Cloud top, expected*
72,000
72,000
99,000
Cloud top, observed
65 ,000
61,000
70,000 to
Sampling flights
60,300
56,500
75,000
56,300
* Reference 71.
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