covered by the trenemitted charts. Only a fractio~
portion of the
orlgin&l manuscript chart whiuh ia usually drawn for tho antira
Pacific was transmitted. It would se- that this pFoCOdUF’Ocaused
a midmum aamunt of wo*
for the weather centralae ~
by Cli@~
to archaic thinking in believing that the field meteorologistsmust
have a large scale map, a wonderful opportunity to demomtrate the
c~lete
usefulness of facsimile transmissionswas completely lost.
The entire Pacific surface analysis, ad
if possible hemisphexk analyses
should have been transmitted from these centrals.
T~
upper air ch~s
wen
scientifically~ssible
as a fore-
casting aid. Here again large scale maps were transmittedwith many
of the charts having only 2 or 3 iso-height lima showi~ only a
fraction of any significantupper-air enalysis. Further no temperatun
analysis or relativetopographywas biicatod and without this information tbse upper air charts were of casual interest but utterly worth1088 in forecaat~.
Written ~o~tion
on the tr~t
ted charts indicating the
reliability of tho analysia, ●utimated frental
ad development of txmughs @
charts used in the analysis sconsiderationad
etc., can @
intensities, the speed
waves, or implications from other
as preseure change charts, thermodynaqlc
should be Indicated on the facshile
transmittedmaps.
~en
the facsimile concept is recognizedwhole heartedly~
meteorologists,only then will it be possible to demonstrate Its great
usefulness. It is estimated that four aerographer’smates out of a
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