Improvement in Weather Data
Professor C. G. A. Rossby, who led the Institute's division of Meteorology, collaborated in studies to develop improved methods of recording weather data for comprehensive studies of cloud formations and their connection with the vertical structure of the atmosphere. Specially designed photographic equipment was installed in the plane. The readings are automatically and continuously recorded throughout the flight on a thin sheet of smoked aluminum foil on a revolving drum. The research plane has places for three passengers in addition to the pilot, and was fitted with various scientific instruments for special weather studies, including a meteorograph used for registering temperature, barometric pressure and relative humidity.
Lange and associates designed automatically recording instruments for measuring the intensity of cosmic rays. Previous experiments on cosmic rays have been made on mountain tops or with sounding balloons.
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