Abstract
DURING the first World Geophysical Interval of the IQSY, measurements of temperature and winds were made at heights up to 60 km, using the new meteorological rocket Skua, launched from the Royal Artillery Guided Weapons Range at South Uist in the Outer Hebrides (57.3° N., 7.4° W.). The results of these measurements are shown in Figs. 1 and 2. By sheer good fortune these first four ascents spanned a ‘stratospheric warming’. Stratospheric warmings and coolings of this type are recorded by balloon ascents from time to time during the early months of most years, but this may be the first series of measurements showing the rapid growth and decay of a warming at levels above 35 km.
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