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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