Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-01
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FOR EXPLORATION
HEAD OF GOVERNMENT WEATHER
BUREAU SEES GREAT FIELD
FOR SCIENCE.
SAYS METEoRoLooY MADE
AVIATION A POSSIBILITY
Moore Hopes Bureau Will Be Able to
Make Forecasts Of Weather condi-
lions For Month and Says Years
Representation Are a Possibility
Whom Upper Air Currents Are Solved.

London, June 1.-Prof. Willis L.
Moore, chief of the United states
weather bureau, delivered the first Of
a series Of lectures before the Royal
Institution in London today.
He perdicted that . the time would
com when the weather bureaus would
have the added responsibility Of map
ping daily air routes for passenger-car-
rying aeroplanes; and intimated a be-
lief that the dream of the meteorologist
of forccasting the character OF coming
seasons might be realized.
lie said IN part:
By the use of cinematoSraphy
(photographing of moving objects) we
pherlc phenomena so to $50 miles
above sea-level are now coming within
the reach of accurate meteorological
observation and calculation. We shall
in the near tutur have a more init
mate knowledge Of the complex oper-
atoms of atur in these high attitudes
than we have today.
Mad. Avi.t:c. Possible.
Aviation is largely indebted to me-
,eorology for its existence. The aero
plane is out the kite of The meteorolo-
gist with power and rudder attached,
and the art of aerial navigation and
that OF weather f~orecasting will be
closer allied in the future than they
nave been in the past. In fact. the
making of such navigation CONNER
.clally possible may depend more upon
the m~eteorologist than upon the con-
structing engineer. | forecast the tu-
ture when l say that the time may
come when many of h 200 stations
Of the United States weather bureau
and those OF other weather services
viii be equipped with aviators and fly
Ing machines. The kite on windy days
and the aeroplane on quiet days VIII
carry instruments aloft and bring back
the pressure, temperature and direc-
ton and force OF the wind: which,
when telegraphed to the central office,
will enable the forecaster to construct
a weather map on, say, the two mile
level-will enable him to plot the hor-
distribution of pressure and
temperature gradients up In the free
air where the energy of the storm mus,
be the most intense. and, what is Of the
greatest importance 10 the pilots of air
craft, to determine the regions OF I'M
stable equilibrium, where gradients
quickly reverse and swirls are fire.
Quent; and finally by comparing the
weather char of the high level with
the one OF sea-level. to map out the
vertical gradients of pressure. and tenn
perature. Then the central mcteorolo-
gical office may issue more danger
warnings to air craft than to water
craft. 1t is no wild flight of fancy to
assume that in the near future the
weather forecaster will daily lay out
the routes of the ships Of the air;
when, for instance, there shall fly from
the roof OF every weather station q
fair way signal, one that advises eau
ton, or one that peremptorily orders
all craft to 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 he
south and east bound for Chicago, but
that everything from the Mississippi
westward will be wrecked II II flies,
and should await further advices.
Arc to BE Next Explored.
THE geographic poles are attained.
Mans future most interesting. hazard
Gus and fruitful regions Of exploration
and research will be the high air and
the deep earth. These fields present
enhancing possibilities.
The placing of passengers in alumni
nun cases carrying them upwards on
aeroplanes to the eastward drift above
the storm stratum r shooting them
from America over to Europe between
breakfast and afternoon tea is not so
wonderful a performance as the send
ing OF an aerogram across the English
Channel, the transmitting Of the hui
man voice over a metallic circuit, or
the reproduction OF words that were
uttered by lips since closed in death.
We live in an age Of science and in
yention rather than in one of literature
and art: no one can forecast the out
come of an hour The impossible OF
YESTERDAY is the commonplace Of to-
day.
Monthly Forecasts Possible.
eft has long been the dream OF the
meteorological h some day we might
forecast the character Of the coming
seasons. What a wonderful conserVa-
| ton OF human energy would result II
II were possible to foretell the amount
Of precipitation over the great cereal
! plains Of the world and the fruit grow
ing valleys, and the degree OF heat or
cold. Seed n labor might be saved
in Improbable years, and greater en-
ergy put forth when nature was
bountiful.
in the United States we have
reached the period when it Is possible
to successfully forecast the character
Of the weather for the coming week"
The professor described the interna-
toinal weather chart, the data for
which is collected each morning IN
Washington from the entire northern
hemisphere. and predicted that by the
further study Of h distribution of air
pressure around the world 1t might be
nossible within the next decade to