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<br />water saturation was measured in a given height interval. The most frequently <br />saturated layer was found at 3.0 to 3.2 km. This layer was 1.2 - 1.4 km above <br />KingvaleJ and about.0.5 km above the highest peaks in the area. The aircraft <br />minimum obstruction' clearance altitude was appro~imafelY3:2 km' hi the vi~inity <br />of Kingvale, which is at the top of this layer. <br /> <br />The depth of the water-saturated layers is shown in Figure 20. The curve <br />denotes a cumulative percentage in this figure. The data indicates that <br />approximately 35 percent of the saturated layers were less than 0.2 km deep. <br />About 90 percent of the time water-saturated layers were less than 1.5 km in <br />depth. The depth of the largest saturated layer was 2.4 - 2.6 km. <br /> <br />Figure 21 shows the altitude of the lowest detectable saturated layer. The <br />first saturated layer was detected below 3.2 km 90 percent of the time. The <br />layers detected below this height lllIay \'lell extend above 3.2 km (see Figure 19). <br />The distribution of the first detectable saturated layers suggests the impor- <br />tance of orographic lift in initiating water saturated levels. <br /> <br />26 <br />