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International Investigation of the Upper Air

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THE International Commission for Scientific Aëronautics has for some years past arranged that observations in the upper air by means of kites and balloons should be made on certain pre-arranged days, generally the first Thursday in each month. At the conference held at Milan in October last, M. Teisserenc de Bort suggested that better results would be obtained if a series of observations could be made on several successive days instead of on isolated days as hitherto.

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CAVE, C. International Investigation of the Upper Air. Nature 76, 101–102 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/076101d0

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