This report gives an account of the High Altitude Nuclear Detection Studies (HANDS) conducted at the Boulder Laboratories of the National Bureau of Standards and later of the Environmental Sciences Services Administration (ESSA) from approximately 1963 to 1968. This project represented a pioneer effort in the acquisition and processing of digital data from different disciplines of geophysics. It was one of the first in which an on-line computer formed...

The instrumentation of small sounding rockets for scientific experiments in the region from 50 km to approximately 110 km is described. These particular rockets were developed to measure the diurnal variations of proton spectra and electron densities during solar proton events. Seven rockets were flown with each carrying a three-channel proton spectrometer and a three-frequency Faraday rotation experiment. The proton spectrometer and Faraday rotation...

This report describes data acquisition and reduction methods that were used in investigations of large-amplitude, high-wave number, total magnetic field variations over exposed, basic volcanic rocks. The continuous profiling and discrete-station field operations procedures are detailed. A double-orthogonal-array mapping technique which eliminates mapping bias and allows full use of a folded (sin x)/x interpolator is also described. Discussion of the...

The imagery data obtained from earth satellites are well known and applied extensively in the meteorological field. Although these applications are well published, considerable effort is required by a researcher to obtain information on the extent and varied uses of meteorological satellite data. This report is a review paper which brings together in one place summaries and examples of present research and applications utilizing meteorological satellite...

This paper describes a subroutine CURVPT that provides a plot on the peripheral printer of up to six parameters with curve separation and automatic scaling. It was developed for automatic presentation of meteorological flight data by the computer but can be used universally.

An electrochemical concentration cell (ECC) ozonesonde has been developed for measuring the vertical distribution of atmospheric ozone up to about 35 km. The sondes are normally flown coupled to NOAA National Weather Service or Air Force military type balloon-borne meteorological radiosondes; although, provision has been made in certain models of the instrument for additional coupling to Mastenbrook frost point hygrometers or Suomi-Kuhn net radiometers....