Abstract
IN a recent publication, Sir Gilbert Walker discusses certain meteorological and solar statistical relationships worked out by E. W. Bliss (Mem. Roy. Met. Soc., 4, No. 36). Many years have elapsed since the work of Tesseirenc de Bort and Hildebrandsson showed that there are regions where the changes of certain meteorological elements are correlated with?the changes in the same or different meteorological elements in places so far distant that the discovery of the connexion came as a surprise, and seemed to open up prospects of a greatly increased understanding of the workings of the general circulation of the earth?s atmosphere. The work has had practical results in seasonal weather forecasting, for example, in the predictions of the character of the Indian monsoon organised by Sir Gilbert Walker, but has thrown very little light on the physics of the general circulation. So far from providing important generalisations such as would simplify the study of world meteorology, it has resulted in an enormous number of statistical relationships from which cause and effect can seldom be disentangled.
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Correlation of Meteorological Data. Nature 131, 284 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131284a0
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