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THE Annual Report of the Director of the Meteorological Office for the year ended March 31, 1932 (London: H.M. Stationery Office. Is. net.), deals with the seventy-seventh year of the Meteorological Office. Although the work has continued on the main lines followed in recent years, this year has seen tho conclusion of a scheme of re-organisation of the arrangements made at the London headquarters for tho preparation of weather forecasts. Under the revised arrangements a single branch only is concerned with forecasts, whereas formerly forecasts for aviation were done by one branch and all other forecasts by another—an awkward arrangement involving a certain amount of duplication, and one which is not justified by any essential difference between the two types of forecast. This internal re-organisation has had its counterpart in a simplification of tho exchange of weather information by wireless telegraphy between different countries. This year has also seen the commencement of a scheme of co-operation with the Automobile Association in tho supply of meteorological information, including forecasts, to private persons flying their own aeroplanes. The only other work of an exceptional character was in connexion with the second International Polar Year. A number of countries, including Great Britain, are co-operating in obtaining data from high latitudes for the study of meteorology and terrestrial magnetism, and aro organising expeditions for that purpose. The share allotted to the Meteorological Office consists of an expedition to Fort Rae, in Canada.
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Work of the Meteorological Office. Nature 130, 606 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130606a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130606a0