Students’ calcs in the 70s/80s

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Trojdor…reminds me of police asking 2 friends and I what we were doing on various street intersections at ~midnight in Danbury, CT in 1971 during high school. I had won a grant from Stauffer Chemical Company to study nighttime heat island phenomena with a special interest in whether a dewpoint heat island might have coexisted with it. The police saw 3 teenagers on street corners holding something…it was an aspirated hand held psychrometer! They quickly gave us the green light to continue on our grid system route around the city! The heat island was quite pronounced, but we found no evidence of an “island” of higher dewpoints.