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No drastic changes are indicated in the Report on the Administration of the Meteorological Department of India in 1939-40 (Pp. iii + 35 + 8 plates. Delhi: Manager of Publications, 1940. 1.2 rupees; 3s. 9d.). A start has been made on the construction of new buildings at New Delhi for the Upper Air Office, which is to be transferred to that city from Agra. Thirty acres of land have been acquired for this purpose, and the buildings were begun in December 1939; they were expected to be ready for occupation towards the end of 1940. The forecasting office at New Delhi, which was closed as a measure of economy in 1932, at a time of financial stringency, was re-opened, and at about the same time a new wireless station attached to the Poona Meteorological Office began to function. These last two developments allowed the Department to complete its “regional synoptic” scheme for the broadcasting of station weather reports. The stations included in these broadcasts, and in similar broadcasts from Karachi, Calcutta and Rangoon, are shown in plate I of the report, and those included in the “Collective Synoptics” in the same plate.
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Meteorology in India. Nature 147, 539 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147539b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147539b0