Show balloon Sozin soundings dings aid weather study use radio in experiments at harvard university CAMBRIDGE MASS radio balloon soundings of the atmosphere were the chief activity of the harvard weather station during the last year according to director charles F brooks of the blue HUI hill observatory at harvard university Harv ards pioneer experimentation with automatic radio balloons tor for upper air soundings after three years has resulted in widespread use of such instruments for regular weather observations our aim to find an easier more certain and less eap exp expensive way to sound the atmosphere has been accomplished complis hed and much sooner than we expected when in 1935 we designed and used the first american rad radio iome io me graph brooks said the united states weather bureau has converted 6 of its 12 airplane stations to radio or radio as they now are called and it hopes to change the other six next summer and add 13 more if congress supplies the necessary money he said the army and navy have converted four stations china has bought many harvard radio meteoro meteors graphs and japan england india and germany are experimenting with the harvard instrument backed by orders now for thousands of radio the manufacturers are engaging in further improvements in design on so much larger a scale than we can that we now are turning our attention mainly to studying the results obtained from the daily soundings at so many stations brooks said |