Word: weathering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meteorologists are quick to admit that they know next to nothing about the basic mechanics of the world's weather. They lack firm data on basic determinants-global air currents, worldwide cloud-cover, distribution of radiation from the sun, etc. Without such data, last week weathermen were puzzling over an announcement by Dr. Roger Revelle, director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California, that the Pacific Ocean along the West Coast grew warmer by two to five degrees centigrade this year, bringing tropical fish as far north as the state of Washington...
...explain such phenomena, meteorologists are counting heavily on earth satellites that will keep a weather eye on all the doings of the atmosphere. The Russians have not told whether they got meteorological information from their Sputniks, but next spring U.S. satellites will carry into space at least two weather instruments. A team of scientists at the University of Wisconsin, led by Dr. Verner E. Suomi, is fashioning metal spheres two inches in diameter that will be carried by a satellite to measure radiation from both the sun and the earth. The U.S. Army Signal Corps is preparing a special photoelectric...
...reason for both these instruments, says Dr. Francis Reichelderfer, head of the U.S. Weather Bureau, is that science cannot now keep track of the earth's "heat balance." The incoming energy from the sun fluctuates in an unknown manner, and the amount of cloud-cover on the earth affects the percentage of solar energy that is bounced back into space. A satellite equipped with proper instruments could measure incoming and outgoing energy, thereby help weathermen to predict as much as a year ahead whether a season is apt to be warmer or colder than usual...
...comparatively simple satellite instruments, says Reichelderfer, will be only the beginning. He thinks that future satellites will carry TV or facsimile apparatus to send continuous pictures of cloud patterns. These can be translated into hour-by-hour maps of the atmosphere's circulation, which is responsible for the weather. Particularly useful will be cloud pictures from oceans and polar regions, where few ground weather stations exist at present. Eventually weathermen, watching the whole earth's clouds through the electronic eyes of several satellites, may be able to predict the advance of cold and warm fronts, spot newborn hurricanes...
North Dakota, along with Minnesota one of the best in the Western Hockey League, was the next sextet to beat the varsity as it won easily, 5 to 1. The game was played in North Dakota's "Winter Sports Palace" in 2 degree below zero weather...