Article ID: CBB001321068

Weather Services at War (2009)

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The following paper by Ken Anderson came to me in the National Meteorological Library in 1993. It contains the only known record of met men involved directly in the real war, in Mr Anderson's case the war in central and western Belgium and the Nord-Pas-De-Calais in May 1940. The style is rather cryptic, being based largely on notes from a war diary of the artillery unit to which they were attached. It was also rather long for a Weather article at that time, so it was relegated to a "look at again sometime" envelope and duly "lost". I found it again in 2004 and after scanning it, my wife and I did a little sub-editing to make it easier to read. I also added some of the pictures sent by the author. (From Introduction)

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Description The wartime diary of meteorologist Ken Anderson documenting is services during 1940.


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Authors & Contributors
Jones, Edgar
Holmes, Jamie
Selinger, Franz
Achbari, Azadeh
Degroot, Dagomar
Booth, Brian J.
Concepts
Meteorology
Science and war; science and the military
World War II
Weather
Weather forecasting
Science and technology, relationships
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
18th century
17th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
North Sea
Arctic regions
Atlantic Ocean
Jamaica (Caribbean)
Institutions
Great Britain. Royal Air Force
British Admiralty
National Chemical Laboratory (England)
United States. Weather Bureau
Great Britain. Royal Navy
National Physical Laboratory (Great Britain)
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