Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 June 1936 — Page 8
DATA FOR LONG ANCE FORECAST
‘Scientists Hope to Extend Predictions for Two Weeks Ahead.
BY DR. FRANK THONE (Copyright, 1936, by Science Service) WASHINGTON, June 10. — Weather is in for a concentrated attack by scientists, closing in from many angles. If the citadel of its unpredictability can be broken into by human intelligence and ingenuity, it is going to be done within the next few years.
~ With the objective of extending the forecasting time from its present two days to as much as two weeks, students of air, earth, sea and even sun are pooling their resources of facts already ascertained and ideas for further research. Work is proceeding on at least seven “leads”—some of them promising, others at present only tentative but considered worth working out to a
definite conclusion before a verdict
is reached.
Here are the seven roads Lo pos-
sible success in long-range weather forecasting: 1. Total solar radiation. Dr. Charles G. Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, has devoted many years of careful observational and statistical research to the difficult question of weather * changes correlated with changes in heat and light received from the sun. Thus far he has used data from three widely . separate dry mountain tops: Table Mountain, California, Mt. Montezuma, Chil€, and Mt. St. Catherine on the Sinai Peninsula, between Africa and Asia. To make many more observations quickly available, it is proposed to set up seven additional stations on mountaintops in the far. places of the earth.
Radiation. Fluctuates
2. Ultraviolet radiation. Dr. Ab“bot has discovered that the ultraviolet part of the sun's total radiation fluctuates through a much wider range than the other kinds of rays. It is possible therefore that if ultraviolet filters are placed over the radiation-registering instruments much more positive readings can be obtained: though it is carefully pointed out that this possibility still needs closer investigation. Another possibility is opened up by the fact that ultraviolet radiation can penetrate very thin films of silver. Lightly, silver-coated globes might therefore be sent up into the stratosphere on unmanned balloons, bearing within them some type of automatically recording instrument, or a light-weight automatic radio set to send signals back to c:=th. 3. Cycle studies. These are based on the belief that weather, unlike history, repeats itself. Various workers have claimed that the same kind of weather returns at more or Jess regular intervals, ranging from a few days to several centuries. J. B. Kincer of the U. S. Weather Bureau is investigating the more promising-looking of the many cycle “theories.
Affect Each Other
4. Correlation studies. Weather is not made up of a lot of sharplypounded separate pieces, like stones in a mosaic. The edges of one kind of weather blend into the edges of the different kind in an adjoining ‘area, and one kind affects the other. ‘It is also claimed that weather 4s thus interdependent over rather Jong periods and at long distances; that for example the weather of India may be reflected six months later in the weather of Australia. ‘United States Weather Bureau scientists are also looking into this work, on which a considerable mass of data has been accumulated. 5. Planetary position correlations. Several years before he came to
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more rapid rate in cold air. states than they do in the South.
FIGURED OUT THE COURSE OF THE PLANET, “PLUTO” ALMOST EXACTLY. suT NEVER SAW THE PLANET
MOVE AT AN AVERAGE SPEED OF 35 MILES AN HOUR. IN WINTER. AND : 25 MILES AN HOUR. IN SUMMER.
- Storm areas do not travel across country at any uniform rate, but the average speed is approximately that given above. areas of high and low pressure are more energetic and move at a They travel faster across the northern
These
Washington as Secretary of Agriculture, Henry Wallace, with Larry Page, discovered that when certain of the larger planets were in line with the earth and the sun, a given type of weather could be expected at Des Moines, Ia. They offered no explanation of this apparent fact, but their statistical studies indicated that the probability of such weather recurrences was great{er than could be looked for on a mere chance basis. Nothing further was done at the time, “dormant” studies are now being brought out again. 6. Ocean temperature correlations. Compared with air and earth, the ocean is a far more efficient “storehouse for weather.” It sjores up a great deal more of the sun's heat, and gives it off more slowly and evenly. Correlations between ocean temperatures and subsequent weather on land were worked out for southern California many years ago by Dr. George E. McEwen of the Scripps Institution for Oceanography. Similar work on a much larger scale is now being done by the Weather Bureau in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean.
Study Arctic Air Masses
7. Airmass analysis. This method, developed in Norway during the World War, has been put into use already by the United States Weather Bureau. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has also developed into a leading center for airmass analysis research. A “key” station, for the study of Arctic air masses entering the North American continent; has been set up at Fairbanks, Alaska. Here air conditions are studied both on the ground and at levels up to the limit of airplane flight. A co-operative station has been arranged by the Canadian government at Fort Smith, on the Mackenzie river, and a third has been established at Fargo, N. D. This chain of three observatories can “keep tab” on any major airmass entering the continent by the usual northwesterly track.
These ‘leads” represent rather an embarrassment of riches, in some respects. If they all work, as means of telling the weather weeks in advance, some of them will be unneclessary. But the meteorologists, playi ing no favorites, philosophically ex-
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more rigidly investigated. If only one or two out of the whole seven prove satisfactory the scientists will be more than satisfied.
HOOSIER TO ATTEND GERMAN UNIVERSITY
U. Law Student Granted Course by Fraternity.
Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind., June 10.— John H. Himelick, Connersville, Indiana University law school student, is to study in Germany's famous Heidelberg University as an exchange student named by Phi Delta Theta; social fraternity. Selection was based on ability, scholarship and service to the fraternity. The exchange is financed through ‘co-operation with a Ger-
man collegiate - organization -and|
provides that on alternate years the fraternity send a student to Heidelberg and the following year a German student attends an American university.
Otto Schatz, Freiburg, Germany, |
is the exchange student at Indiana this yedr. Himelick, who receives his A. B. degree in history Monday, is to leave for. Europe July 12 to study in
Berlin two months before entering |: Heidelberg. He is to take -work in|:
politics and government.
2 Insane Fugitives Caught By United Press ST. PETER, Minn, June 10— Wilburt Jorrisen and Adolph Walworth were captured near Cologne, Minn., today, leaving only five fugitives trom the State Hospital for Criminally Insane still at large.
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manufacturer, is to give the principal address at the ninth annual commencement exercises of the Indianapolis ¥. M. C. A. night schools to be held at 7:15 Priday night in
the Central building. Grover Van Dyne, assistant superintendent of -the State De-
award diplomas and certificates to 76 students from the four Y. M. C. A. &chools, the largest class ever to be graduated. Night high school, school = of commerce, business college and trade school graduates are to receive recognition. A. F. Williams, Y. M.-C. A. educational director, is to oki Officers of the graduating high school class are Forest Lassiter, president; Harry Barker, vice president; Ruth Burke, secretary, and Clayton Schultz, treasurer. Alumni and former instructors of the Y. M. C. A. night schools are to hold a dinner at 6:30 preceding the commencement. The committee in charge is headed by C. A. Tevebaugh, former state secretary of the Y. M. C. A. and instructor in the evening schools. James W.
‘| Pisher, instructor” in the business
college for 20 years, and George Horton, graduate of the public speaking course, are to assist Mr. Tevebaugh.
Law School Exercises
The Benjamin Harrison Law School is to hold its thirty-eighth annual dinner tonight and commencement program in the Columbia Club tonight.
Seniors, - faculty members and
1 gtiests are fo attend the dinner to
be held at 6:30. The commencemencement exercises are to begin at 8:36. Dean W..R. Forney is to preside at the exercises. The class valedictory is to be delivered by Patrick J. Smith, and the alumni address by | Daniel C. Flannagan, class of 1921, of Ft. Wayne. Harvey A. Grabill, a member of thé faculty, is to award the prizes. so
“Girl Hurt ‘in Crash When an auto driven by Virgil Miller, 426 N. Gray-st, struck a light standard early’ today, ‘Miss
Beatrice England, 1512 N. Meridianst, a pasenger, was injured.. She was taken to: ‘Methodist Hospital.
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Spanky McFarland never will be spoiled because of the sparing of the rod. The juvenile screen star displays part of his catch made in Lake Royal, near Cleveland, to Morris Ackerman, fish and game expert.
THREATENS ACTION AGAINST DOG RACES
Prosecutor Makes Stand
After Court Order.
Times Special HAMMOND, Ind., June 10.—Deputy Procesutor John Stanton said today that he intends to take action against legal operation of dog racing tracks here. A temporary injunction issued yesterday by Superior Court Judge Bertram C. Jenkins in favor of the Calumet Exposition Co., race operators, brought the statement from the deputy prosecutor. John Vincent, public: relations counsel, denied that pari-mutual betting would be conducted.
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