Show COMPILE WEATHER DATA FOR 80 YEARS study puts special stress on ocean changes new orleans an eight decade climatic record of the seven seas sea giving everything from humidity data sought by air conditioning engineers engineer to south pacific weather charts will be published under the direction of the united states state weather bureau here this year the study of ocean weather underlying der lying and overlying temperatures winds and other meteorological data has been completed but the workers have not finished their collection and study of the 30 year rainfall records of the united S tates states the latter work is being conducted under a new appropriation recently authorized earhart tragedy cited there were comments last year when amelia earhart and her navigator fred noonan disappeared on their round the world flight that they might have averted tragedy had they possessed weather bureau burea u records of the little known fast changing south pacific atmospheric conditions the first such oceanic atlas of its kind is compiled from thousands of reports of long forgotten ships and stamen down the years scores of charts incle include winds on a monthly and seasonal basis conditions causing diminished and exceptionally good visibility average cloud coverage frequency of rain of different types and frequency of thunderstorms the average and compilation is such that typical weather is shown tor for almost any marin mari location on earth probably the most important section of all said mcdonald stocky scotsman with bushy graying hair is devoted to ocean temperatures pera tures the study of temperatures on the surface and of overlying air ocean weather most vital we attach such importance is t this study because of the fact that water comprises about tour four fifths of the surface of the world virtually every meteorological disturbance on land gets its it energy from the ocean air conditioning engineers have b been een clamoring for information relative to temperature and humidity conditions at sea now we will be able to answer their inquiries this is the first time in history to my knowledge that such a study has been attempted compilation of the worldwide world wide data has long been one of mcdon aads special interests the project was begun two years ago the united states rainfall volume will contain a history of 1560 successive weeks of rain by each of subdivisions into which the records record have been organized |