Accession Number:

AD0735656

Title:

Project Pre-Gondola I: Cloud Development Studies.

Descriptive Note:

Final rept.,

Corporate Author:

CALIFORNIA UNIV LIVERMORE RADIATION LAB

Personal Author(s):

• Day, Walter C.
• Rohrer, Robert F.

Report Date:

1967-07-01

Pagination or Media Count:

73.0

Abstract:

The clouds resulting from four 20-ton nitromethane cratering explosions in a wet clay shale medium were studied by photographic analysis and lidar laser-radar tracking. A technique for detecting tracers in future events in the same medium was investigated. Author

Descriptors:

• *CLOUDS
• *OPTICAL SCANNING
• *NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS
• *CRATERING
• SIMULATION
• EXPLOSION EFFECTS
• OPTICAL RADAR
• CLOUD COVER
• PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSING
• DRIFT
• OPTICAL TRACKING
• TRACER STUDIES

Subject Categories:

• Explosions
• Optical Detection and Detectors
• Nuclear Explosions and Devices (Non-Military)

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE