Abstract
THE annual report of the Director of the Meteorological Office for the year ended March 31, 1938, describes the work of a period during which attention has been focused on the ever-growing needs of the rapidly expanding Royal Air Force and civil aviation. Many new meteorological stations were opened during that period on service and civil aerodromes as trained staff became available. The installation of direct teleprinter connexions between the meteorological stations in the country and the Air Ministry Meteorological Office headquarters was begun and arrangements for its extension to the constantly growing network of similar stations had to be considered. Meteorological information for the trans-Atlantic flights of July 1937 was supplied from stations set up at the Shannon Airport and at Botwood. The first of these was worked on an agency basis by the Meteorological Office for the Government of Eire, and the second was operated by the Canadian Meteorological Service on behalf of the Government of Newfoundland. Conferences were held afterwards at Toronto and Dublin to review the meteorological organization and improve it.
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Recent Work in Meteorology. Nature 142, 948 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/142948a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/142948a0