Wireless to Aid Meteorology

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 27, 18 January 1929, Page 23

Wireless to Aid Meteorology

3 MPORTANT developments in meteorology are foreshadowed in the message of Professor William H. Hobbs, lender of the University of Michigan Expedition to Greenland, broadcast to Commander Richard IE. Byrd and his associates from the Westinghouse Radio Station, KDKA, Pittsburg. In his message to Commander Byrd, Professor Hobbs states that a German scientist, Herr Wegener, has made arrangements to erect two meteorological and aérological stations during 1929 and 1930, which will be in operation for a whole year, one in the remote interior of Greenland and the other close to the coast. The American Professor expressed the hope that Commander Byrd would be able to maintain a station on the inland ice of King Edward Land, in addition to his main base statiofi on the edge of the ice barrier. It was thought that this will afford splendid opportunities for Mr. Frank Davies, one of the expedition’s scientists, to do pioneer work on radiation measurements for different types of ice; as well as for water and land. Professor Hobbs concluded his message with the suggestion that very important returns can be obtained if meteorological, work can be carried out both in Greenland and the Antarctic.