Aircraft reports of cirriform clouds on certain high latitude routes and California to Honolulu.
Aircraft high level cloud data to estimate vertical distribution of cirriform clouds and tropical tropopause levels on airline routes
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Aircraft high level cloud data to estimate vertical distribution of cirriform clouds and tropical tropopause levels on airline routes
Cosmic ray electron flux and energy spectrum from balloon data obtained at Palestine, Texas, monitoring proton flux periodically
Electron cooling rates in midlatitude and auroral zone thermosphere measured by probe rockets
Lower ionospheric electron concentration and collision frequency measurements by Nike-Apache rockets, suggesting geomagnetic anomaly in D region
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Balloon measurements of cosmic ray positron and negatron intensities near North Pole
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Midlatitude ionosphere and magnetosphere thermal protons dynamic behavior, investigating magnetic storm effects
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An attempt to identify propagating internal gravity waves in the mesosphere was made by sounding the region with three instrumented rockets on January 13-14, 1970, from Churchill, Canada (59 N). The three observations, which were conducted at approximately 90 min. intervals, consisted of a pitot probe bracketed by two acoustic grenade soundings. Thus, two temperature and wind profiles and one density profile were obtained independently, permitting an examination of the thermodynamic structure and the wind structure. The results of the combined thermodynamic and wind observations were found to be quantitatively compatible with a gravity wave interpretation. This interpretation also predicts vertical velocities on the order of 10/msec in the 80 km region.
A three-dimensional model for the annual and semiannual variations of the thermosphere is presented in which energy and diffusive mass transport associated with the global circulation are considered in a self-consistent form. It is shown that these processes play a major role in the thermosphere dynamics and account for a number of temperature and compositional phenomena.
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Observations made by the neutral mass spectrometer on board the polar orbiting OGO-6 satellite are given. Measurements were taken of the composition, density, and cyclic variations of gases in the high altitude thermosphere. Data were taken during the quiet magnetic period of August and early September 1969.