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AT the first meeting of the International Snow Commission held in Edinburgh on September 14–16, 1936, members of the British group emphasized the importance of snowfall in the hilly districts of the British Isles, pointing out, also, that if the climate were to take a slightly colder turn the snowfall would become decidedly impressive over a large portion of the country. Out of this meeting there arose the formation of the Association for the Study of Snow and Ice, and among other activities of this body a scheme has been launched for extending our knowledge of snowfall in Great Britain from observations of the extent, duration and depth of snow-cover. It is thought desirable to begin systematic study with limited areas in such snowy districts as the Cairngorms, the Southern Uplands of Scotland and the northern Pennines, gradually extending the scheme to cover the whole of the country. It is hoped to investigate the permanent, semi-permanent and late-lingering snow-drifts in the Scottish Highlands, and the northern English and Welsh mountains, together with such important phenomena as the long-distance, mass-drifting of snow whereby quantities of snow in severe blizzards may pass out of the drainage basins into which, but for the wind, they would have fallen. The plan will thus supplement valuable information already being obtained from the rainfall stations of the Meteorological Office, and readers interested should communicate in the first instance with the chairman of the Ice and Snow Association, Mr. Gerald Seligman, at Warren Close, Coombe Hill Road, Kingston Hill, Surrey.
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British Snowfall Survey. Nature 141, 195 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141195c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141195c0