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Meteorology and the Second World War
Author(s) -
Galvin Jim
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
weather
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.467
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1477-8696
pISSN - 0043-1656
DOI - 10.1002/wea.3687
Subject(s) - courtesy , battle , world war ii , aeronautics , service (business) , scale (ratio) , meteorology , first world war , history , engineering , geography , economic history , political science , economy , law , cartography , archaeology , economics , ancient history
The Second World War brought large‐scale significant changes to the demands on meteorologists and the types of service they needed to provide. Although the technological developments between the two World Wars set the scene for many of these new requirements, there were few weather forecasters until the last few months before the Second War, so demands for training were significant. Many developments led into the services that would be required when peace returned and a description of these is given in this article.Meteorological Research Flight Vickers‐Supermarine Spitfire PR Mk. 19 (the last to be manufactured) , now one of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight aircraft. Courtesy Airpowerworld.com