Accession Number:

AD0258403

Title:

ORGANIZATION AND METHOD OF INVESTIGATING FOG AND CLOUDS

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY BOSTON MASS

Personal Author(s):

• VOSKRESENSKII,A.I.

Report Date:

1960-12-01

Pagination or Media Count:

1.0

Abstract:

The basic stages of the organization and method of research of the Arctic Institute expedition are presented. The basic assignments of the expedition were 1 The carrying out of a wide meteorological, microphysical and aerological complex of observations of fog and clouds both from the ground and from aircraft, 2 The execution of experiments on the artificial seeding of supercooled lower-level clouds and fog using dry ice and silver iodide, 3 The organization of stationary observations of fog according to a special program in the Arctic observatories at Dickson Island, Tiksi and Pevek in 1956 - 1957, and 4 The setting up of bases for conducting aerological investigations on Dickson Island and at Tadibe-Yakha in 1957. Author

Descriptors:

• *CLOUDS
• *FOG
• AIRCRAFT
• ATMOSPHERES
• COLLECTING METHODS
• METEOROLOGY
• PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
• POLAR REGIONS
• RECORDING SYSTEMS
• REDUCTION
• SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
• SOURCES

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Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE