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THE past decade has been very fruitful in the investigation of the upper air. By the use of kites sufficient results have been obtained to furnish a tolerably complete knowledge of the variation in the meteorological elements up to a height of 2 km., while registering balloons have furnished information regarding the distribution of temperature up to heights of 15–20 km. The results of the Berlin manned balloon ascents were arranged and discussed very fully ten years ago, but no such comprehensive discussion of the much more numerous kite and registering balloon ascents has yet been attempted. The present report deals, with the instruments and methods of investigation, and with the results for temperature and for wind.
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The Upper Air 1 . Nature 82, 47–49 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/082047a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/082047a0