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news and notes news and nntes experimen t were to test the ability of various remote sensors Stever and Ramo confirmed— includin g active and passive microwave radar to measure the Atkinson new Acting Director NSF boundar y and magnitude of the Gulf Stream from space. Satellite remote sensing techniques tested in the experiment Durin g the second week of August, the Senate confirmed used infrared signatures to identify the Gulf Stream boundary H . Guyford Stever, previously Director of the National Sci- enc e Foundation (NSF), as Director of the new Office of fro m space photographs. A precision altimeter, also onboard Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) (see BULLETIN, 57, th e NASA Geodynamic Experimental Ocean Satellite 3 827). Controversy had surrounded the Stever nomination, (GEOS-3), was capable of measuring surface deviations in the bu t by the time of the Senate hearings, the appointment was ocean within 20 cm; from these measurements the velocity easily confirmed by a vote of 78 to 6. of the current could be calculated. A second appointment, that of Simon Ramo as head of I n addition to the GEOS measurements, the NOAA-4 th e President's Committee on Science and Technology weathe r satellite was http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society American Meteorological Society

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Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society , Volume 57 (9): 5 – Sep 1, 1976
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news and nntes experimen t were to test the ability of various remote sensors Stever and Ramo confirmed— includin g active and passive microwave radar to measure the Atkinson new Acting Director NSF boundar y and magnitude of the Gulf Stream from space. Satellite remote sensing techniques tested in the experiment Durin g the second week of August, the Senate confirmed used infrared signatures to identify the Gulf Stream boundary H . Guyford Stever, previously Director of the National Sci- enc e Foundation (NSF), as Director of the new Office of fro m space photographs. A precision altimeter, also onboard Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) (see BULLETIN, 57, th e NASA Geodynamic Experimental Ocean Satellite 3 827). Controversy had surrounded the Stever nomination, (GEOS-3), was capable of measuring surface deviations in the bu t by the time of the Senate hearings, the appointment was ocean within 20 cm; from these measurements the velocity easily confirmed by a vote of 78 to 6. of the current could be calculated. A second appointment, that of Simon Ramo as head of I n addition to the GEOS measurements, the NOAA-4 th e President's Committee on Science and Technology weathe r satellite was

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