Abstract
THE systematic exploration of the upper air by means of kites is referred to by Prof. Cleveland Abbe in the Monthly Weather Review, at the end of a long article upon the experiments made previous to 1893. It is pointed out that at that time the Malay kite and the free balloon were merely looked upon as the means occasionally obtaining isolated items of information from the upper regions; the world had not then awakened to the possibility of the work inaugurated by Prof. Moore in July 1895, which looks to the compilation of a daily map of simultaneous observations high above the earth's surface and over a large portion of the United States, for study in connection with the map of surface conditions. Observations of the air at a single station can have but little value compared with the international balloon work of Europe, or the extended national kite work of the U.S. Weather Bureau.
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
The Use of Kites in Weather Prediction. Nature 57, 163–164 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/057163b0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/057163b0