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- From: gbt@cray.com (Greg Titus)
- Subject: Re: Need info on Gila Wilderness
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 11:04:20 CST
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- In article <1k4oulINNt0t@lynx.unm.edu> mulberry@triton.unm.edu () writes:
- >... I believe that NOAA or some other
- >science agency has a research facility in that area that is
- >devoted to lightning research.
-
- New Mexico Tech's Langmuir Thunderstorm Research Lab, on South Baldy
- in the Magdalena Mountains west of Socorro (somewhat NNE-ish of the
- Gila). They bring lightning down to the lab by firing wire-trailing
- rockets into thunderstorms. A few years ago the folks there were
- the first to electrically invert a thundercloud (charge cloud and
- ground opposite to how they naturally are).
-
- greg
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