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THE Marine Observer of April (13, No. 122) contains an article by Capt. L. A. Brooke-Smith, superintendent of the Marine Division of the Meteorological Office, Air Ministry, entitled “Observation and Weather Forecasting and Some of their Bearings on the Sea Service”. The author comments on the great improvement in accuracy of observations of barometric pressure at sea since the Great War, and attributes this to the growing realisation on the part of ships' officers that weather forecasting is not only possible by a few specially trained meteorologists in observatories ashore, and to the increasingly successful efforts in this direction that have resulted from that realisation. It fell to Capt. Brooke-Smith to explain to a committee of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom in 1921 some of the advantages which might accrue to navigation from the more general use of reliable thermometers as well as reliable barometers, and the report of that committee to the Chamber of Shipping included recommendations in respect to both these items. Apart from their value in forecasting, reliable measurements of atmospheric pressure at sea should eventually become important for pilots of aircraft when far from land, who will rely on them for obtaining correct indications of height from their altimeters, and for that purpose will have to obtain them by wireless from ships.
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Meteorology and the Sea Service. Nature 137, 900–901 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137900d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137900d0