Meteorology For Coast Artillery
Publisher: U.S. G.P.O.
Published: 1941
Place of publication: Washington, D.C., USA
Language: eng
Description: War Department Technical Manual TM 4-240 Meteorology For Coast Artillery  1941-12-20
Prepared under direction of the Chief of Coast Artillery
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Section I. General. Paragraph; title: Purpose and scope 1; title: Meteorological data required by coast artillery firing units 2; title: Standard methods and equipment 3; title: Location of meteorological station and theodolite station 4; title: Duties of personnel 5; title: Steps in preparing meteorological message 6; title: II. Telephone and time interval systems.; title: Standard equipment 7; title: Methods employed without standard equipment. 8; title: III. Determining zone winds.; title: Description of theodolite 9; title: Care of theodolite 10; title: Setting up and orienting theodolite 11; title: Other types of theodolites 12; title: Pilot balloon and hydrogen 13; title: Inflating and weighing balloon 14; title: Tracking free balloon 15; title: Plotting horizontal projection of travel of balloon 16; title: Determining zone winds 17; title: IV. Ballistic winds.; title: Definition and discussion 18; title: Wind weighting factors : 19; title: Plotting weighted zone winds 20; title: Determining ballistic winds 21; title: V. Surface observations.; title: Scope 22; title: Atmospheric pressure 23; title: Relative humidity 24; title: Air temperature 25; title: Surface air density 26; title: Surface winds 27; title: Section VI. Ballistic densities.; title: Definition and discussion; title: Determining ballistic densities; title: VII. Meteorological message.; title: Encoding; title: Distribution; title: Appendix I. Meteorological tables; title: II. Adjustment of theodolite