Storms Above the Desert

    Illustrations

    1. Langmuir laboratory - aerial view
    2. Langmuir laboratory - close up
    3. E.J.Workman
    4. The radar convoy
    5. Irving Langmuir
    6. Kiale Maynard
    7. Irving Langmuir and Bernard Vonnegut
    8. Cumulus cloud developing
    9. Cumulus cloud developing
    10. Cumulus cloud to anvil
    11. An anvil cloud over the Magdalenas
    12. Workman's silver iodide smoker
    13. A Project Cirrus B-17 bomber
    14. Inside an instrument trailer
    15. Outside an instrument trailer
    16. Preparing a balloon launch
    17. Steve Reynolds and E.J. Workman
    18. The Vonnegut and Moore mobile laboratory
    19. Charlie Moore and hot-air balloon
    20. Looking down South Water Canyon
    21. The lab road
    22. Charlie Moore during construction
    23. Langmuir lab in 1964
    24. Handling a balloon on South Baldy
    25. "Stirling's cloud machine"
    26. The PBC in action
    27. Stirling Colgate
    28. The Annex under construction
    29. The Annex just after completion
    30. Marx Brook
    31. Checking out apparatus
    32. Triggered lightning
    33. Marvin Wilkening and flight crew
    34. Bernard Vonnegut and Marx Brook
    35. Graduate student Barbara Zinn
    36. Jack Cobb releases a radiosonde
    37. Charlie Moore and student Dave Lowe at Kiva II
    38. Triggered lightning
    39. LSO-2
    40. Triggered lightning
    41. Bernard Vonnegut
    42. Bill Winn in balloon hangar, 1977
    43. Winter on South Baldy
    44. Winter on South Baldy

    Color Illustrations

    Plate 1
    Plate 2 Plate 3

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    1, 2, 3 Growing cumulus and a mature anvil cloud

    Plate 4

    Day lightning

    Plate 5 Plate 6

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    5, 6 Night Lightning

    Plate 7

    Rain shaft near the laboratory

    Plate 8

    Rain and lightning from a summer thunderstorm


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