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EARLY in the year 1898, the Congress of the United States granted a sum of money, to be expended under the direction of the Chief of the Weather Bureau, for the establishment and maintenance of a series of stations at which observations of the upper free air were to be made by means of automatically recording mechanisms attached to kites. This work was to be undertaken primarily in the hope that daily simultaneous observations might be obtained at definite altitudes, thus permitting the construction of daily synchronous charts of pressure, temperature, and wind direction and velocity, which, when studied in connection with corresponding surface charts, would admit of some advance being made in the present system of weather forecasting, both in accuracy and in the duration of the periods forecasted for.
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FRANKENFIELD, H. The Kite Work of the United States Weather Bureau . Nature 63, 109–111 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/063109a0
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