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AT the commencement of the war the knowledge of the effect of wind and of the density of the air on the flight of a shell was elementary. It was assumed; by the gunners that the wind was of the same direction and strength at all heights reached by the projectile, and that the density of the air decreased with altitude according to an artificial convention. The corrections for wind and density which the gunner was taught to apply were supposed to be referable to the meteorological conditions observed by him at the battery, but he was not taught how these conditions should be observed, nor that the observation of surface air temperature was an exceedingly difficult matter.
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WEDDERBURN, E. The Importance of Meteorology in Gunnery. Nature 105, 492–494 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105492a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105492a0