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Report on the weather of the borneo‐celebes region, 1946
Author(s) -
Wood C. A.
Publication year - 1948
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49707432003
Subject(s) - meteorology , geography , climatology , darwin (adl) , geology , engineering , systems engineering
Abstract Early in 1946, a small group of R.A.F. meteorologists took over the weather station at Balikpapan, on the east coast of Borneo. The airstrip was the half‐way house on the Singapore‐Darwin and Batavia‐Manila routes; aircraft touching down at this isolated point brought valuable information concerning the weather in regions normally off the beaten track. This paper is the record of the pilots' inflight reports and the observed meteorological phenomena at the airstrip.