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THE new Chief Signal Officer of the United States is making some sweeping changes in the meteorological service. We regret that the series of simultaneous meteorological observations taken at noon, Greenwich time, which began in 1875, at the instigation of the Vienna Meteorological Congress, is to be given up at the close of the present year, from lack of funds. This service has developed from a comparatively limited work to one of great magnitude, covering almost the whole of the northern, and part of the southern, hemisphere. For some time the observations were reduced, and published in the form of daily bulletins and maps, but the continued reduction of the amount at the disposal of the Chief Signal Officer rendered it necessary to give up this great and useful publication, and to limit the work to the issue of a monthly “Summary and Review of International Meteorological Observations,” containing the monthly means of all the observations, with explanatory text and maps of the average isobars, isotherms, winds, and tracks of areas of low pressure. This valuable publication will be continued up to December 1887, to complete the data for ten consecutive years in a shape convenient for further research. General Greely states that it is further intended to publish charts of the average monthly pressure and temperature for each month of the year, based on ten years' international observations.
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Meteorological Notes . Nature 36, 545–546 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036545a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/036545a0