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THE Admiralty has announced the re-institution of a Naval Meteorological Branch of the Hydrographic Department, a branch which was created during the Great War but was merged with the Meteorological Office in 1920 when the latter institution was taken over by the Air Ministry, and then became the Naval Division of the Meteorological Office. Capt. L. G. Garbett, who has been its superintendent, is to be the chief superintendent of the reconstituted Naval Meteorological Branch of the Hydrographic Department, under the Hydrographer of the Navy, and will be assisted by three naval officers and a civilian staff. Although the change is being made only for administrative convenience, and does not coincide with any drastic change in naval meteorological practice, the applications of meteorology to naval operations have steadily increased in recent years, especially that part of meteorology concerned with the wind structure and the physical state of the upper atmosphere, which are of such importance for flying operations. For this reason, the existence of an efficient meteorological service organized especially in accordance with naval requirements has become a matter of even greater importance than formerly. The Meteorological Office, under the Air Ministry, has also greatly extended the scope of its activities, and will remain the principal seat of meteorological learning and research.
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Meteorology in the Navy. Nature 140, 1057 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1401057a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1401057a0