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<br />14 <br /> <br />Photographs of the radar scope at Climax (see Figure 2) available <br /> <br />after 1530, agree well with surface observations. From 1530 to about <br /> <br />1730 some cellular activity was observed. This was expected in light <br /> <br /> <br />of past observations (Furman, 1967; Elliott, 1966). After 1730 there <br /> <br /> <br />was a marked reduction of activity followed by a marked increase at <br /> <br /> <br />about 1930. By 2300 the cells had disappeared. The radar pictures were <br /> <br />not of sufficient quality to provide a reliable quantitative measurement <br /> <br />of echo sizes, densities and movements, <br /> <br />3.3 Data <br /> <br />Data from the rawinsonde and two radiosondes comprised all the <br /> <br />essential data for the aerological analysis described in section 1, <br /> <br />Pressure, temperature and relative humidity data received from these <br /> <br />instruments were analyzed in as much detail as possible. The vertical <br /> <br />profiles of temperature, mixing ratio and equivalent potential tempera- <br /> <br />ture, generated for each balloon ascent, were plotted in time sequence <br /> <br />for each station as discussed earlier. Figures 4, 5 and 6 show the <br /> <br />resulting analysis for Camp Hale data. In these figures the light <br /> <br />vertical lines are the soundings positioned according to the time of <br /> <br />release. The local weather conditions, as composited from surface ob- <br /> <br />servations at Minturn and Camp Hale, are shown at the top of Figures <br /> <br />4 - 7. (Camp Hale was the closest location to the ridge line where <br /> <br />observations other than precipitation were made. Weather conditions <br /> <br />between Camp Hale and the continental divide were not observed.) Wind <br /> <br />speeds from Minturn were treated similarly and are shown in Figure 7, <br /> <br />The arrows indicate the wind direction at one minute intervals of bal- <br /> <br />loon flight, <br />