Our country and its resources; . of theseconditions; in addition to whichcomplete reports from all the ob-serving stations are presented in tab-ulated form. In order that all sec-tions of the country may receiveweather data, maps or bulletins con-taining the data in tabulated form,are Issued from about one hundredof i be larger stal ions. Tl cean meteorological service aims to collect, through the co-opera-tion of vessel masters and others,meteorological observations at recent development in the ait ofradio-telegraphy has made possiblethe transmission of meteorologicalobservations made
Our country and its resources; . of theseconditions; in addition to whichcomplete reports from all the ob-serving stations are presented in tab-ulated form. In order that all sec-tions of the country may receiveweather data, maps or bulletins con-taining the data in tabulated form,are Issued from about one hundredof i be larger stal ions. Tl cean meteorological service aims to collect, through the co-opera-tion of vessel masters and others,meteorological observations at recent development in the ait ofradio-telegraphy has made possiblethe transmission of meteorologicalobservations made by ships at seato shore stations, thence by land lines to a central meteorologicalservice. The Weather Bureau hasorganized a system of meteorologicalobservations on vessels navigating the coastal water- of the middle and South Atlantic States, the Gulf of Mexico, .-mil the Caribbean Sea. the primary object being to gain infor-mation of sub-tropical storms whichoccasionally traverse the watersabove named. Distribution of weath-. MARVIN ELECTRICAL SUNSHINERECORDER er Information, forecasts, and warn-ings is made daily by radio servicethrough the co-operation of the radio service of the I t i i t c -«] State- Navy. Although the two hundred regu-lar observing station-, each repre-senting about 16,000 square miles ofterritory. furnish sufficienl data upon which to base the various fore-casts, observations at many inter-mediate points are necessary before DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 551 the climatology of the United Statescan be properly studied. This needhas given rise to the establishmentof an important and interesting fea-ture of the Weather Bureau in itsClimatologieal Service. This serviceis divided into forty-four local sec-tions, each, as a rule, covering asingle State, and having for its cen-ter a regular observing centers collect temperatureand rainfall observations from morethan 4,000 co-operative stations andpublish these data in the form ofmonthly reports whi
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