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Weather forecasting will be facilitated if a recent discovery of Irving I. Schell, research associate at the Blue Hill Observatory, works out as expected. The meteorologist will then be able to compute a continuous record of conditions in the important and very active first mile of the atmosphere...
...last week's adventure. But the record of eight stratosphere flights by man makes it seem unlikely. Whether undertaken for science or as record-breaking stunts they were for the most part either comedies or tragedies. The stratosphere itself was discovered from the ground. In 1896 a French meteorologist named Teisserenc de Bort sent up sounding balloons with automatic instruments, discovered a calm, cold layer of air of uniform temperature, beginning six miles up. In 1927 Captain Hawthorne Gray of the U. S. Army Air Corps went up in an open basket to a height of eight miles, died...
Since 1931 the University has allowed the professorship of Meteorology and Climatology to remain vacant. The Administration excuses itself by the statement that the services of the leading meteorologists in the country are not at present available at Harvard. This attitude of patient waiting for the eligible meteorologist to come along does not, however, improve the lot of the student who is concentrating in a field that should include meteorological study...
Glory-Seekers. Up into the stratosphere last week soared the Bartsch von Sigsfeld, biggest balloon in Germany. Aboard were Dr. Hermann Victor Masuch, meteorologist, and Dr. Franz Martin Schrenk, pilot. Their purpose was to rise 32,800 ft., study cosmic rays, bring glory to the Reich. Next day scientist, pilot and balloon were reported missing. Day after in Russia, near the Latvian border, was found the wreckage of the Bartsch von Sigsfeld. In it was Meteorologist Masuch, dead. Nine miles away lay Pilot Schrenk, also dead...
...thermometer, improved but unchanged in principle, is still in general use. It necessitates a separate operation for every depth at which the temperature is obtained. Thus ocean students were excited last week when Professor Carl Gustaf Arvid Rossby, head meteorologist of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reported that he and two associates had devised an instrument which would record a complete temperature gradient from the surface to a maximum depth...