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Much good work has been done lately in the exploration of the upper atmosphere in the region of the trade winds, more particularly the Atlantic trades, where men of science of Germany, the United States, and France have been making investigations, trying above all to elucidate the very important question of the anti-trade. But in the Indian Ocean and the adjacent regions, the-realm of the most powerful and persistent monsoonic system of the globe, with the exception of a few ascents from the German ship Planet, carried out in the southern and eastern portions of the ocean, only the Indian meteorologists, Mr. Walker and Mr. Field, had applied the new aerological methods for the study of the monsoon phenomena, the work in the south-west monsoon proving especially difficult on account of the stormy and rainy character of the weather prevailing during its sway.
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BERSON, A. The Royal Prussian Aëronautical Observatory's Aërological Expedition to Tropical East Africa . Nature 80, 171–172 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080171b0
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