DIRECT COURSE-TRINITY seismic experiment. Final report, July 1983-July 1984
The proximity of the DIRECT COURSE test site to the TRINITY site where the first atomic bomb was detonated in July 1945 offered a unique opportunity to compare the unusual appearing seismic waves recorded on the TRINITY event with those excited by DIRECT COURSE. Two of the Leet Seismographs used to record the 1945 TRINITY event were obtained and fielded on DIRECT COURSE alongside modern digital instrumentation in an effort to verify the TRINITY seismograms. Good records were obtained from one of the Leet instruments and from most of the digital instrumentation. Comparison between the Leet records and the digital seismograms indicates that the hydrodynamic wave, first observed at TRINITY, is real and not an instrument phenomenon.
- Research Organization:
- Air Force Weapons Lab., Kirtland AFB, NM (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 5102449
- Report Number(s):
- AD-A-169555/0/XAB; AFWL-TN-84-55
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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CHEMICAL EXPLOSIONS
SEISMIC WAVES
TEST FACILITIES
TRINITY EVENT
DIGITAL SYSTEMS
HYDRODYNAMICS
NEW MEXICO
SEISMOGRAPHS
SIGNALS
ATMOSPHERIC EXPLOSIONS
EXPLOSIONS
FEDERAL REGION VI
FLUID MECHANICS
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
MECHANICS
NORTH AMERICA
NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS
SEISMIC ARRAYS
SEISMIC DETECTORS
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