Operational activities

A short description of the observational field program as carried out in the Canal Zone during July 1977 is presented. The people responsible for organizing the activity and those deployed to the Canal Zone, who were responsible for various aspects of the field activity (including the experiments) are listed. The ozonesonde balloon and rocketsonde launches and the aircraft flight track are shown. The daily activity schedule during the 16-day Intertropical Convergence Zone study is shown. The instrument configuration of the U-2 research aircraft used during the experiment is also shown.