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ONE result of the War has been such an increase in the number of meteorologists in the United States that the American Meteorological Society has decided that the moment has arrived when a financial success can be made in America of what is described as "a technical journal of the highest caliber in the field of meteorology". The recently reorganized Society has recognized the need to serve both the professional and amateur meteorologist, and it is for the professional that the new journal under the title The Journal of Meteorology is mainly intended (American Meteorological Society, Milton 86, Mass.). It is to be a quarterly journal eventually, but owing to the difficulty of starting a new publication, especially in war-time, it was considered best to have only two issues in the first volume, dated 1944, and the copy of the first issue that we have received, dated September 1944, is accordingly described as vol. 1, Nos. 1 and 2. The journal is edited by Prof. Victor P. Starr, of the University of Chicago, and there are four associate editors, among whom is J. Bjerknes. The print is larger than that usually used in scientific journals at the present time, and both it and the diagrams are very clear; the paper cover is a bright yellowish-orange. There are four articles, dealing respectively with the theory of the genesis and movement of cyclones, the determination of normal regions of atmospheric heating and cooling, the changes of temperature during the formation and dissipation of stratus cloud on the Californian coast, and lastly, the relationship between the major changes in the paths of tropical storms and the upper wind-field. The journal has certainly made a very promising start, and we wish its editors every success.
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Journal of Meteorology. Nature 155, 692 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155692a0
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