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A PAMPHLET has been produced (Air Ministry: Meteorological Office. Examples of Weather Maps showing Typical Distributions of Pressure. (M.O. 237, second edition.) Pp.B 8. (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1932.) 3d.net.) to meet the needs of those schools where another publication prepared by the authority of the Meteorological Committee entitled “The Weather Map”, which forms an introduction to modern meteorology, is used as a textbook for the teaching of elementary meteorology. The latter work appeared a little more than two years ago (see NATURE, 126. 755, Nov. 15; 1930). Being a comparatively expensive production (price 3s net, compared with 3d. net in the case of the pamphlet under notice), it was regarded as unsuitable for distribution to individual pupils and accordingly six of the most important illustrative synoptic weather charts have here been selected from it so that pupils would be able with the pamphlet in front of them to follow the explanations of a teacher using “The Weather Map” as a textbook. The six figures selected are those numbered 9, 18, 21, 22, 23 and 24 in the textbook, and give typical examples of a depression, anticyclone, secondary depression, V-shaped depression, wedge and col. There is no explanatory matter beyond a paragraph describing the weather corresponding with the various letters that appear on the map (the Beaufort weather notation is used), the method of showing the speed and direction of the wind, the temperature, and—by means of isobars for 4 millibar steps—the distribution of Dressure. The two publications, both of which are to be obtained from H.M. Stationery Office, should, if used generally at schools, put young students on very familiar terms with the weather maps appearing in many of the leading newspapers, and at the same time give some idea of the methods of working of the official forecasters.
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Weather Maps showing Typical Distributions of Pressure. Nature 130, 994–995 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130994d0
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