Abstract: The ability of the bead thermistor currently used in meteorological sounding rockets to measure the ambient kinetic temperature of the environment is examined theoretically. A non-steady state heat transfer environment ...

Abstract: The time constant for a ten-mil-diameter, spherical-bead thermistor is determined as a function of height in a standard atmosphere from sea level to 100 km. Evaluations are made for continuous, slip, and free-molecular ...

Abstract: Wind profile observations obtained at two sites near the upper Texas coast during onshore winds in June 1968 are used to determine local toughness parameters. Values of 3?4 cm are obtained at a 32 m tower site 90 m inland ...