Eclipse‐meteorology, with special reference to the total solar eclipse of 1932

Abstract

The solar eclipse presents an opportunity to observe the consequence of a rapid shutting off and restoration of insolation, like a quick, brief night interrupting the normal course of the day's weather. The North American total eclipse of August 31, 1932, crossed a well‐populated region of considerable physical diversity at a time when the Sun was high in the sky. Support from the Milton Fund of Harvard University and from J. J. Storrow, Jr., made it possible for the Blue Hill Observatory to undertake an ambitious program of meteorological observations, both surface and aerologlcal, and to collect data from nearly 300 cooperating stations of the United States and Canadian weather‐services, astronomical parties, forest‐services, power‐companies, the Appalachian Mountain Club, and numerous individuals. The complete monograph with rather full details, presented in abstract here, is to be published as No. 3 of Harvard Meteorological Studies.