Winds Observed from November 1965 Through December 1967 in the 70 to 230 Km Region of the Upper Atmosphere

摘要

Horizontal winds and shears have been calculated from 19 rocket released chemical clouds consisting of 9 night, 3 morning twilight and 7 evening twilight releases. Eighteen of the clouds were trail releases and one was a barium ion striation. Tables are presented which give the vertical profiles of wind speed, heading and components and the shear components. Four profiles are of a near simultaneous spatially separated trails obtained on up and down legs of a rocket trajectory. In one of the cases a second rocket made a near simultaneous down trail. Two rockets had almost simultaneous releases, one being an up trail and the other a down trail. These profiles are appropriate for spatial variation studies. Three sets of profiles are from time spaced releases and are suitable for time variation studies. (Author)