Weather Scientists

Duration: 0:22:00

Year Published: 1960

Creator: National Film Studios | Universal Educational & Visual Arts

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Conducts a tour of a weather bureau office and shows how weather information is obtained and used in preparing weather maps and weather forecasts. Defines weather, and indicates the necessity of weather forecasts. Explains, using overprint titles for identification, the use and operation of the thermometer, psychrometer, anemometer, rain and snow gages, radio-sonde, sunshine recorder, calorimeter, and radar. Shows how the data are gathered and made into a weather map, identifying some of the symbols used on these maps. Portrays the ways forecast data are disseminated to those requiring this information.

Complete Record: , Conducts a tour of a weather bureau office and shows how weather information is obtained and used in preparing weather maps and weather forecasts. Defines weather, and indicates the necessity of weather forecasts. Explains, using overprint titles for identification, the use and operation of the thermometer, psychrometer, anemometer, rain and snow gages, radio-sonde, sunshine recorder, calorimeter, and radar. Shows how the data are gathered and made into a weather map, identifying some of the symbols used on these maps. Portrays the ways forecast data are disseminated to those requiring this information.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.