Jul 10 1981

From The Space Library

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NASA reported "encouraging initial results" from a two-month experiment that it conducted jointly with the FAA., National Center for Atmospheric Research, and Northwest Airlines. An instrument on Nimbus 7, called total ozone-mapping spectrometer, sent GSFC experimenters data on the total ozone profile in the atmosphere. Within three hours the GSFC scientists relayed the data, processed to indicate upper-air patterns and meteorological activity, such as rapidly moving fronts, to Northwest Airlines meteorologists in Minnesota for use in forecasting.

Knowing the location of the fronts could help in avoiding them, both because they were associated with clear-air turbulence and because ozone encountered by airlines at high altitudes had caused shortness of breath as well as eye, nose, and throat irritation among airline passengers. Further research would lead to deduction of troposphere heights from total-ozone data for comparison with satellite temperature-sounding data. (NASA Release 81-90)

NASA reported that Dr. Jack L. Kerrebrock, former head of MIT's department of aeronautics and astronautics, had become associate administrator at NASA Headquarters for aeronautics and astronautics, effective July l, replacing Dr. James J. Kramer, who retired in October 1979.

Before accepting the NASA Headquarters position, Kerrebrock had been a member of the U.S. Air Force scientific advisory board, the National Research Council's aeronautics and space engineering board, and the NASA Advisory Committee. He had directed MIT's gas-turbine laboratory from 1968 to 1978. He received his Ph.D. from CalTech in 1956; from 1951 to 1953 he was a researcher in aeronautics at the Lewis laboratory of NASA's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). (NASA Release 81-91)

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