Box 2

Early correspondence requesting magnetic field maps. A balloon-borne magnetometer is being considered in order to improve balloon position accuracy.

This file establishes the format to be used when requesting U.S. State Department to procure balloon overflight clearance from nations in the southern hemisphere and requests for specific balloon flight clearances (Micro-GHOST, EMA, and RACCOON).

Correspondence regarding the development and use of thin film solar cells for superpressure balloon flights.

Correspondence concerning obtaining information and samples of long duration water repellent for superpressure balloon flight.

Information Bulletins 1 through 30

GARP Activities Reports 1 October 1971- 16 December 1971 and Action Bulletins #1 (March 1971) and #2 (July 1971) concerning the organization of UCAR-GARP working groups.

File includes WMO/FGGE press release; a report on the operational aspects and deployment of constant level balloon (superpressure) systems during FGGE; a proposal for the continuation of the FGGE drop- windsonde data processing contract.

Draft of U.S. International Meteorology Plan and final report, "Proposed United States Participation in an International Meteorological Program." Other reports are included in the file.

A series of reports covering the French government superpressure balloon program Project Eole. These reports cover a discussion of the overall concept of the program, its goals, a detailed analysis of the physics involved in superpressure balloon flight and a paper presented at the General Assembly COSPAR meeting by Prof. Pierre Morel, Eole Program Director. Reports are in English and French.

Correspondence concerning the French request to conduct a series of TWERLE electronic systems test flights during September 1974.