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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMGRCB
WEATHER BUREAU TOPICS AND PERSONNEL
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JUNE 1944
INFORMATION
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METEOROLOGY SCHOLARSHIPS
Additional information haa been received from the California Instituto
of Technology at Pasadena, Calif., that a course in professiond meteorology
will begin on July 1, 1944. Tuition scholarships will be granted
by the Wcathar Bureau for this coursc. Applicants will receive tuition
OM?/ and the recipient is expected to finance his transportation costs to
and from the University and to pay living expenses, including text books,
during attendance. Requirements remain tho 8ame as listed in the
March and May 1944 issues of T~PICS AND PERSONNEL.
In view of the prcscnt personnel shortage due to drafting of men under
26, it is difficult to release employecs from their present assignments
even for the purposo of obtaining professional training in meteorology.
Before making application, it is therefore suggested that eniployces con-
Oult with the Official in Charge and the Regional Director concerning
releama for this training.
CONFERENCE OF FORECASTERS
hading forecastors from ninotecn centsrs met in Washington from
16 to May 20, 1944, to discuss organization and sorvico problems,
as dietinguished from matters of ecientific character. Attention was
Concentrated on action which might be takcn more or less immediately,
kith thc facilities and pcrsonncl whioh arc now available, to improve the
service to the public, and working arrangements at tho different
canters. Some attention wm given to planning for the future, espccially
in the post-war period.
It is felt that the mutual exchange bctwccn mcmbrrs of the group and
o@kials of the Ccntral Ofico ]ins becn extrenioly profitttblo.
USE OIr RAWlN REPORTS
Tho increasing demand for upper-wind data to at lead 40,000 foot
in 811 weather conditions hae led to the devclopmrnt of two methods of
Obtaining winds-aloft, data in and above an overcast, Data obtained by
both methods will be designated on weathw teletype circuits as RAWIN
(Pronounced RAY-win) data. The meaning of RAWIN is: “A winde
aloft observation made by balloon and radio methods, without optical
aid:’ RAWIN should not bo confused with RABAL, which denotes the
‘nethod of determining uppepair wind8 by obecrving radiosonde bal-
loon through a theodolitc.