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SEEKING WEATHER SECRETS IN THE

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STRATOSPHERE."

MEN WHO FACE DEATH IN THE CAUSE OF METEOROLOGY.

BY E. L. HAWKES, M.A., F.R.A.S.,

Meteorological Superintendent of "Humpitend

Observatory,

· Tvo, rapeditions are, fitting out 10) Kipfer, unlike some of their ad canture in hollowns the mysterious visers, had greatly ander estimated upper regions of the air-the the dangers of the exploit..... stratosphere, and a famonik French firm in building a special airplane to make journeys at these dizzy heights.

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special capacity for absorbing the rua's hent. It is possibly identienė, with part of the Honviside layer,?« so familiar to radio onthusiasts *

the zone from which long-distance

-wireless wavos are, reflected back to

our receivers.

"Ozonos

Dao function of the phore,'' as this region has provision- ally been termed by racteorologists, may be to prevent over-much ultra- violet radiation. from reaching the. 'barth. It has an association with sunspots, and its variations in the past were perhaps to come extent

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It has generally been held that the deepening of the sky's, blue .in.ticed by moutaineers would continue intil the colour approached black at great heights. But last May Pro- fessor Pipeard was struck with the blueness of the air at the top of Such considerations will not deter his scout. This suggests that the the adventurous spirits who are soon prevent theory is wrong, and that to follow where these pioneers have ozone, being a blue gas. may sorvo Owing to a series of minor to lighten the sky's ime as the re- It is a queer coincidenco that the inisfortunes, the two Swiss scien- gion of it supposal abundance is present-day reversion to Victorian fists were unable to enrry out their approached. modes and fashions in England full programme of investigations. should synchronize with revival and the chief object of their ascent, of nineteenth-century interest in an exploration of the lower stratos ballooning. In view of the rapid phere, was only in part accomplish advance made in the construction. To satisfy the appetite of and management of engined air sgienes many similar ascents will be graft during and since the war, it i seemed until recently that the day of the free balloon was for ever done. But the wonderful ten miles ascent undertaken for seientiße pur. poses by Professor Piccard and Dr. Kipfor last May has shown that the original vehicle of man's mounting into the skies can still serve him best if sheer altitude bn his ainu

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needed.

The whole question of the con- stitution and behaviour of the at mosphers above seven miles is of the utmost importance to meteorological science. It seems, in fact, that our chief hope of finding: the key to mor

successful weather forecasts

20 MILES UP..

may lie there. We know that some "Although "Glaisher and Coxwell, may have reached its fringe is 1862, cyclones and some anti-cyclones ex- it was not until thirty-seven years tend into the stratosphere, and that later that the layer of the earth's others do not; but we cannot tell mantle of air now known as the why.

stratosphere" was discovered by the French meteorologist Teisserenę. de Bort.

There is sy apparent and so fær unexplained connection between the amount of ozone up aloft, as deter mined spectroscopically, and the barometric pressure of the air. We

NEXT TO DEATH.

The implication of this formid-

Next qutumn will see the seven-

able-sounding term is merely that tieth anniversary of the historic within the region of the atmosphory fight that pas. England in possES-

so designated, the general fall of

are still ignorant of the chemical sis of a height "record" which temperature with increasing height was destined to stand for half aave the ground ceases, and is composition of the uppermost layers contury. It was on September 3 often replaced by a gradual rise, of the atmosphere, as well as of the 1809, that Gfaisher and Coxwell Since the closing decade of the altitude to which water vapour ex- nineteenth century it has been the tetids in sufficient quantity to form soared to approximately seven

assiduons practice of meteorologists miles during an ascent from Wol-

verharapton, and, in doing so, came in many parts of the world clouds. within an acr of losing their lives: to launch small unmanned balloons. An explanation of the wet apú

Glaisher had lapsed into uncop-self-registering

carrying light and continuously dry weather moods" which go

barometers and sciousness some time before the thermometers, into the upper air,

often buffle our forecasters with n

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...A FITTING CELEBRATION.

It will be a fitting celebration of

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seeming disregard of accepted that they suffer ne, damage when meteorological laws must presum they fall to earth after the support, ably be sought in the upper air,

ing balloon has burst; and whoever since all efforts to find one near at picks them up is induced by the hand have failed. We also need to offer of a small reward, detailed on an attached label, to return them

ascertain the possibilities of the

to the meteorological headquarters stratosphere for the air routes of whence they were dispatched. It is the future. Up there qur dying ber- vices may some day be able to

to records obtained in this manner, } this anniversary if England sue

coeds in regaining the world's al-occasionally from altitudes as great titude record" next year.

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as 20 to 233 miles, that we owe operate free from bad visibility and attempt is to be made by Mears. most of our knowledge of atmos-other perils that bount them at Eustace and Oswald Short, who are pheric conditions at levels above present.

building a special balloon in which there at present accessible by air. Lastly, and perhaps most import-

they hope to achieve a height of lifton miles more,

They may

plane.

The stratosphere does not lie ot the only competitors. Pro- evenly around the earth: its base icator Piccard is making arrange has an average height of only three marts for another ascent, in which, miles or sa over the Poles, compar However, he himself does not mean ed, with Seven miles over the to take part; and there are rumnars latitudes of Britain, and ten miles of other entranta.

over the Equator.

Seventy years ago the physio Figical effects of extremely low air

COLD!

pressure and temperature were not crease of temperature continues to This means that the upward de-

understood: Ginisher and Coxwell.

ant of all. there is the problem of the "cosmic rays that bone of contention among astronomical phy- sicists. To examine this form, of radiation was the primary object

of Professer Piccard's ascent in

May;

COSMIC RAYS..

We know that the strength of the

made their memorable fight with ch greater altitudes above the rays grows rapidly with increasing gut due pirenutions, and were for-pics than elsewhere, and accounts altitude above the earth, and wo for the seeming paradox that the (tunate to escape with their lives,

Nowadays, sealed aluminium”) most intense cold (182 degrees below know that they come from beyond

gon

zero Fahr, or 184 degrees of frost) the solar system; hat must we fol- dolas, equipped with air filters, fathes of liquid oxygen, and elect, detected under natural condi- low Sir James Jeans in his theory trical appliances, have replaced the tins was registered by a sounding that they derive from the pro- balloon ten miles over Java, quite primitive open basket.

close to the Equator

gressive naaibilation of atoms, or One of the niust surprising scien- may we believe, with Professor tific theories of recent years is that Millikan, that they represent, ou to produce the observed behaviour the..contrary, the results of n'eren- of meteors and of sound waves from

tive process?

Nevertheless, attempts to reach grent altitudes are still fraught with peril. Apart from the cir cumstance that the balloon may be

at the mercy of incalculable winds, distant explosions a layer of ex- there are various possible mishaps,tremely hot air-probably at a tem- any one of which, might spell dians-

tor.

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During Professor Piccard's, peraturn ranging up to 200 degrees, course of demolition or fight the springing of an air leak or even 300 degrees Fahr-inust lis at the top of the stratosphere, sorte in the cabin wall was followed by thirty to forty miles above the answers to such questions that Eng- failure of the gas-yalve control, and his enfe deacent was due in no small ground;"

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ancasure to gosď ĺnck. He admitted This layer is believed to abound hazard their lives in exploring the on his return that both he and Dr. in ozone, a form of oxygen with a stratosphcrc..