NOTE:

There are several other JTFMC reports that provide marginal information

that may be of interest.

For a list of these and of reports issued since

February 1, 1960, inquiry may be made to:

JTF~7 Meteorological Center,

c/o Fleet Weather Central, FPO 128, San Francisco, California.

(2) Us. Se Weather Bureau, Climatological and ClimatologicalPacif .
Prior to 1956, daily rainfall and temperature reports for stations in the
Marshall Islands appeared in CD,Hawaii;

thereafter they have appeared in

CD, Pacific.
(3)

Us Se Weather Bureau, Local Climatological Data, Majuro.

This provides fairly de~

tailed climatologic data in monthly and annual summary form.
(4)

Central Meteorological Observatory, Climatic Records of Japanand the Far East Area.
Tokyo:

CMO, 1954.

This provides mean monthly data for the period of Japanese

occupancy of the Marshall Islands.

(5)

Mitteilungen von Forschungsreisenden und Gelehrten aus den Deutschen Schutzgebieten,
various volumes, 1906-1914.

Gives daily rainfall values for stations in

Micronesia.
(6)

Schott, Gerhard, "Klimakunde der Sudsee~Inseln," Handbuch der Kiimatologie, IV, Part

7, Berlin, 1938.
(7)

Tillman, Hubert, Die Niederschlagsverhaltnisse der Slildsee-Inseln:
Deutschen Seewarte, LVI, nre 5.4

C.

Archiv der

Hamburg.

The references cited above (especially the first three items) provide data that can be used
to compile frequency distributions for meteorological variables in the Marshall Islands
area.

(1)

.

Brooks, C. Ee P. and N. Carruthers, Handbook of Statistical Methods in Meteorology,

Me O. 538 London, 1953.
(2)

‘

Types of distributions common in meteorology ars discussed in the following:

Panofsky, Hans A. and Glenn W. Brier, Some Applications of Statistics to Meteorology,
Penne State Unive, 1958.

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