The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-03
MOORE SPEAKS ID
 ROYAL SOCIETY Head of the United States Weather Bureau Lectures FORECASTS FUTURE
Predicts Weather Bureau Will Map Daily Air Routes for Passenger Carrying Aeroplanes-May
 Also Forecast Seasons


 chief of the United States weather pu- reau. delivered the first of series Of lec- lures before the Royal institution in London yesterday.
 He predicted that the time would come when the weather bureaus would nave the added responsibility of mapping dally air routes for passenger carrying aero planes; and intimated a belief that the dream of the meteorologist of forecastihg the character of coming seasons might be realized.
 Professor Moore Speaks
 He said in part:
 'By the use of cinematography pho- tographing in moving objects) we are jus tified in believing that atmospheric pne- nomena 50 to 15O miles above sea level are now coming within the reach of accurate meteorological observation and calcula- tion We shall in the near future nave more intimate knowledge of the com plex operations of nature in these high al- titudes than we have today.
 Aviation is largely indebted to meteor ology for it's existence. The aeroplane IS but the kite of the meteorologist with power and rudder attached. and the art Of aerial navigation and that of weather forecastlng will be closer allied in the future than they have been in the past. In fact, the making of such navigation commercially possible may depend more upon the meteorologist than upon the con structing. engineer. I forecast the future when l say that the time may come when many of the 200 stations of the United States weather bureau and those of other weather services, will be equipped with aviators and flying machines.
 New Use for AviatOrs
 "The kite on windy days and the aero plane on quiet days will carry instruments aloft and bring back the pressure, temper ature and direction and force of the wind, which, when telegraphed to the central or flee, will enable the forecaster to construct a weather map on, say, the two mile level will enable him to plot the horizontal of pressure and temperature gradients up in the free air where the en- ergy of the storm must be the most in- tense, and, what Is of the greatest inn portsnce to the pilots of air craft to de- termine the regions of unstable equilib- riGm, where gradients quickly reverse and swirls are frequent and finally, by com paring the weather chart of the high level with the one of sea level, to map out he vertical gradients of pressure and tenn perature. Then the central meteorological office may issue more danger warnings to air craft than to water craft. It 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 a fair way signal, one that advises cau- ticn or one that peremptory 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 the south and eastbound for Chicago, but that everything from the westward will be wrecked if it hies and should await further advices.
 Geographic Poles
 The geographic poles are attained. Mans future most interesting. hazardous and fruitful regions of exploration and re- search will be the high air and the deep earth. These fields present entrancing pos 
 "The placing of passengers in aluminium cases, carrying them upward on aero planes to the eastward drift above the storm stratum and shooting them from America over to Europe between break fast and afternoon tea is not so wonder ful a performance as the sending of an aerogram across the English channel. the of the human 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 invention rather than in one of literature and art; no one can fore cast the outcome of an hour. The impos- sble of yesterday Is the commonplace of today. hs .a-
 'It has long been the dream of the me- teoiologist that some day we might fore cast the character of the coming seasons. What wonderful conservation of human energy would result If 1t were possible to foretel, the amount of precipitation over the great cereal plains of the world and the fruit growing valleys, and the degree of heat or cold. Seed and labor might be saved in unprofitable years and greater energy put forth when nature was bounti- full.
 ''In the United States we have reached the period when it is possible to success fully forecast the character of the weather for the coming week
 The professor described the international weather chart, the data for which is col- lected each morning in Washington from the entire northern hemisphere, and pre- dicted that by the further study of the distribution of air pressure around the world it might be possible within the next decade to foresee with reasonable de- gree of accuracy the character of the weather for month in advance.
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