Remarkable Surface Synoptic Maps from the 1930s

From: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Date: November 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Illustrated example from the 1930s of an unmined data source for research into mesoscale synoptic weather phenomena.

In the mid-1960s Guy-Harold Smith, an emeritus professor at The Ohio State University, showed me some fascinating weather maps. Dr. Smith, a cartographer and former chair (1933-63) of geography at the university, explained that he had been involved in analyzing data from the Muskingum River basin of eastern Ohio for the Soil Conservation Service in the late 1930s. He had kept copies of one particular set of maps, for 1500 LT 12 October 1937. They depicted at high resolution a ...

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