Weather Physics

A one‐year study of long‐distance weather migrations and cloud physics will be made by scientists of the General Electric Research Laboratory under a contract with the Office of Naval Research. Irving Langmuir, Nobel prize winner and G‐E consultant, will conduct research on weather movements over long distances, extending and intensifying studies he has made on the transcontinental travel of weather systems. The laboratory study of cloud physics will be carried out by Vincent J. Schaefer, who has worked with Dr. Langmuir on cloud‐seeding techniques, and by Raymond E. Falconer, G‐E meteorologist. At the outset, the study will be concerned with spontaneous formations of ice crystals and the role that atmospheric dust plays in developing snow crystals. The new project has no connection with Project Cirrus, joint weather research program of the Army Signal Corps and the Office of Naval Research, which is being conducted in consultation with the G‐E Research Laboratory.

This article is only available in PDF format