Instruments and techniques for locating and exploiting thermals

Authors

  • Paul MacCready The City College of the City University of New York

Keywords:

Design, Atmospheric physics

Abstract

... The goal of this paper is to select and discuss those few techniques which, because of improved instrumentation technology, might be especially easy and practical to apply....  Of the devices discussed in this article, the most gain per 'unit of development effort' is probably the wet bulb temperature thermal sniffer....

Author Biography

Paul MacCready, The City College of the City University of New York

http://www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~hindman/sumvitae.pdf

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Published

2017-11-28

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