New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-02
DAILY AIR ROUTE MAPS
Moore Predicts Them as Part Of
Weather Bureaus Work,
SEASON FORECAST POSSIBLE
Few Hours Trip to Europe Less
Wonderful than Wireless
Telegraph or Telephone.

London. June l.-Professor Willis Il
Moore, chief Of the United States weathe,
Bureau, delivered the first of a series Of
lectures before the Royal institution An
London to-day.
lie predicted that the time would coma
when the weather bureaus would have ths
added responsibility OF mapping daily air
routes for passenger-carrying aeroplsnes.i
and intimated belief that the dream of
the meteorological Of forecasting the char.
acter OF coming seasons might be realized
He said. In part:
By the use OF cinematography (photo.
graphing Of moving objectsJ we are justi.
h'n IN peleVlng mat atmospheric yus.
nomena fifty to one hundred and fifty rnils.
ABOVE sea level are now coming within the
ieach or accurate meteorological opserva-
ton and calculation. We shall In The near
or the complex operations OF nature In
these high attitudes than we have to-day
AVIATION Is largely indebted to meIeorol.
osy Tor It's existence. The aeroplane ts but
the Kite of the meteorological, with power
and rudder attached, and the art of aerial
navigation and that Of weather forecastinr
viii be closer allied IN the future, than they
have been in the past. In fact, the making
cf such navigation commercially possible
may depend more upon the meteorologist
than upon the constructing engineer.
i
time may come when many Of the two hun.
dred stations OF the United States Weather
Bureau and those of other weather ser.
vices Will be equipped with aviators ana
flying machines.
Weather Map on Two mile Level.
The kite on windy days and the aero.
plane on quiet days will carry instruments
sloft and bring back the pressure, TEN.
perature and direction and force Of the
wind; which. when telegraphed TO the cen.
trail once, Will enable tho forecaster 10
s eys Tia sbs5s msR o. o. nay the
zontal distribution OF pressure and TEN
perature gradients up In the free air. where
the energy OF the storm must be the mos.
portance to the pilots OF air craft, to de.
termine the regions Of unstable equilibrium
where gradients quickly reverse and sw!ris
are frequent; and, finally, by comparing the
one Of sea level, TO map out the vertical
gradients Of pressure and temperature.
Then the central meteorological office
may issue more danger warnings TO air
craft than to water craft. II Is no wild
flight Of fancy 10 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 a fair way
signal. one that advises caution, or one
that peremptorily orders all craft 10 come
the forecasts for the United States shall
say that the way is clear for all craft
from the south and east bound for Chi
cage but that everything from the Mlssis.
sippi westward will be wrecked II II flies.
and should await further advlces.
The geographic poles are attained. Mans
future most interesting, hazardous and
fruitful regions Of exploration and research
will be the high air and the deep e9rth
These fields present enhancing poss.bili'
ties
Outcome Of an Hour Uncertain.
The placing OF passengers III aluminium
casea carrying them upward on aero
paneJ TO the eastward drift above the
storm stratum and shooting them from
America over 10 Europe between breakfast
and afternoon tea is not so wonderful
performance as the sending Of an aero
gram across the English Channel, tht
transmission Of the human voice over :
metallic circuit or the reproduction o.
words that were uttered by lips since CLOSED
in death. We live in an age OF science ana
invention rather than in one Of Literature
and art: no one can forecast the outcome
OF an hour. The Impossible OF yesterday Is
the commonplace Of to-day.
II has long been the dream of the me-
teorologists that some day We might fore
cast the character OF the coming seasons
What a wonderful conservation ot human
energy would result II IL were possible to
foretel the amount OF precipitation owe.
the great cereal plains OF the world ana
the fruit growing valleys and the degree
OF heat or cold. Seed and labor might be
saved I'm Improbable years. ana create
energy put forth when nature was pounu-
full "
In the United States We have reachs'
the period when il is possible successtuil!
TO forecast the character Of the weather
for the coming week.
The professor described the internauohs
weather chart. the data for which are COZ
Iected each morning in Washington IRON
the entire Northern Hemisphere ana pre-
dicted that by the further study Of ne
world II might be possible within the next
decade TO foresee with reasonable g.
gree of accuracy the character or the
weather for q mouth in advance.