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...important military concerns of World War II,* scientists have recently taken to more intensive cloud-gazing. Last week an unusually lucid explanation of the function of clouds in war was presented by an old cloud man, William J. Humphreys (retired) of the U.S. Weather Bureau, in a new book, Fog, Clouds and Aviation (Williams & Wilkins...
What Are They? Scientists know surprisingly little about clouds, which were not even named or classified until 1803 (by an English druggist named Luke Howard). They know how clouds and fogs (clouds on the ground) are formed-by the cooling of humid air, which condenses water vapor on particles of dust, pollen or soot in the air. They also know what a cloud or fog is made of-water droplets (or ice crystals) so small that an 1,800-cu. ft. block of dense fog contains only one-seventh of a glass of water. But many questions, such as what...
...many kinds of fog-dry, wet, sea, land, smog (smoky), black (sooty), ice, pea-soup (moderately smoky, yellowish, once thought peculiar to London)-most are not troublesome to flyers because they are shallow or ephemeral. But there is great danger in advection fogs, produced by the drifting of warm air over cold land or water or snow banks (common off Labrador): they are deep-sometimes thousands of feet-and treacherous...
After that the fog closed in, obscuring events. German sentries paced outside Sorgenfri Castle, Christian X's summer residence, near Copenhagen. Within, the Danes were told, sat an old man with time to think of the last three years and wonder. The King had said he would step down if the Cabinet yielded to German demands. The members stood firm, were now, like their King, in "protective custody." The military was in full command. Denmark, like the rest of the Festung, was occupied territory...
...nature improvisers. Their previous meetings have followed the pattern set in their first war council in the North Atlantic, when the U.S. was not yet in the war, Britain had yet to win her first victory and the atmosphere was as heavy with ifs and buts as the Atlantic fog that surrounded them...