Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-06-02
MOORE DELIVERS
LONDON LECTURE
Chief of Weather Bureau
Predicts Necessity of
Making Air Maps

~ Nssoci.fsd Pee.
London. June Professor Willis
j. Moore chief OF the United States
Weather Bureau. delivered the first
OF d series of lectures before the
Royal Institute 100 London TODAY.
tie predicted thar tho time would
come when the weather bureaus
would have the added responsibility
OF mapping daily AR ruutcs for pas
s"nsrr-rarryiug acceptance, aud in
'lmaicd q belief that the dream OF ID.
mcteoroiogisf oi iprecastiur the char.
ter of comm seasons might poo
realized
Tie said iu part
%" use of ,incmatography
photographic Of moving objects
$50 are Justified Boo bclicyiu. that at
mospheric phenomena go 10 $50
miles above soa-lcyel are now coming
within The reach of accurate meteor
illogical observation aud calculation.
We shall 900 the near future has. a
more intimate KNOWLEDGE of the com
plcN operations of nature iu these
high attitudes than W. have TODAY
Aviation Is largely indebted 10
motcorolocy Tor its existence The
aeroplane is but the kite ~ the
mctcorologist with power ami rud-
der attached and the art of aerial
navigation and thar Of weather fore.
casting will be- closer allied Boo 'ho fu-
ture than they have been in the past
lu fact the making OF such uayiPa-
ton commercially possible NAV de-
pend more upon tho mctoor1Iogist
than upon the constructing cuciueer.
! forecast the future when say the
time may come when many of the
two hundred stations of the nitrd
States weather bureau and those OF
other weather services will be- equip
ped with ayiators and flying ma
chimes The kite on windy DAYS and
the aeroplane on quiet days will
carry instruments aloft and bring
back the pressure. temperature and
direction and force of the wind:
which. when trlegraphed 10 the en-
trail office. will enable the foreeasi-
or 10 construct weather map on say
the tWo-mile level will enable him
70 plot the horizontal distribution of
pressure and temperature gradients
up IN the free air whore the energy
of the storm must be- the most intense
and. what Is OF the greatest IMPORT
ance 10 the pilots of air craft ~ de-
termine the regions OF unstable equi-
I librium. where gradients quickly re-
'ers" and sWirls are frequent. and
finally. hy comparing the weather
shart of the high level with the one
of s"a-leyel. 70 map ont the vertical
gradients OF pressure and tompera-
ture Then the central moteOrolog-
teal office may issue more danger
warnings 10 air craft than to water
7 craft u b. mo- Wild flight of fancy
20 assume that in the near future
The weather forecastcr will daily lay
on the routes OF the ships Of the air:
when. for instance. there shall us
from the Roof OF every weather sta
ton a fair way signal on, that adj
!, yises caution. or one that pcremptor.
! ily orders all craft 10 come down and
be- tied up when. for instance. the
forecasts for the United States shall
say that the way is clear for all craft
from the south and east bound for
Chicago. but that everything from
the Mississippi westward will be
wrecked u Il flies. and should await
further adyices
The geographic poles are attain.
I'd Mans future most interesting,
hazardous and fruitful regions Of ex-
ploration and research will be the
high air and the deep earth These
fields present enhancing POSSIBLE.
ties
The placing % passengers In
aluminium cases. carrying chem ID
wards on aeropianes % the eastward