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THE Indian Ocean is claiming at the present time a large share of the attention of meteorological offices. Recent issues of NATURE have contained notices of meteorological charts for this area issued by the Meteorological Department of the Government of India and by the Meteorological Institute of the Netherlands (NATURE, vol. lxxviii., pp. 169, 487). The present charts are prepared by the Deutsche Seewarte. In area they exceed considerably those referred to above, for they embrace the region between latitudes 30° N. and 50° S., and longitudes 18° E. (Cape Town) and 158° E. The Australian waters and the eastern margin of the Pacific Ocean are thus included, while special inset charts extend the area northwards to include the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan. To deal effectively with the results, a scale of approximately 6 mm. to one degree at the equator has been selected, and in consequence an inconveniently large size of page, viz. 36 inches by 27 inches, has had to be adopted.
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Meteorological Charts of the Indian Ocean 1 . Nature 79, 443–444 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/079443a0
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