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A SUPPLEMENTARY contribution to the same number of the Quarterly Journal of the Meteorological Society by Col. E. Gold follows Sir Napier's with the title “Incidents in the March, 1906—1914”. This deals with a number of aspects of the work of the Meteorological Office not touched on by Sir Napier, among which may be mentioned the important contributions to the relationship between barometric pressure gradient and wind force, and to radiation in the atmosphere, made by the writer himself, and to the perhaps even more important pioneer investigations of Cr. I. Taylor in the subject of atmospheric turbulence, carried out during his tenure of the Schuster readership at Cambridge. It was during those years that the weather observations made at the health resorts were brought under official control, with the result that a reasonable degree of intoreomparability has ever since existed in the tabular weather summaries published in most of the morning and evening newspapers, whereas formerly observers had almost unlimited opportunity for creating a false impression of the amount of sunshine to be expected by visitors favouring their own locality. The vexed question of the most suitable units to be used in British meteorology is also touched upon, a question that does not admit of easy solution seeing that the units that satisfy the meteorologist and are intelligible to the ordinary citizen of France and Germany, are not popular with those who, through not having been educated in natural science, are unfamiliar with the C.Q.S. system and the centigrade thermometer.
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Weather Observations. Nature 133, 940 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133940b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133940b0