International Meteorological Research

Abstract

THE Meteorological Section of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics met at Madrid at the beginning of October 1924, and the proceedings of the Section edited by the secretary, Prof. Eredia, have now been published. Some doubt had been felt by those familiar with international meteorological organisation as to whether the Meteorological Section of the Geophysical Union could find a broad enough field of operations without encroaching upon the proper domain of the International Meteorological Committee. The report of the work of the Section at Madrid which is contained in the present volume ought to remove any doubt of this kind. There are points where the work of the Section touches the work of the International Meteorological Committee, and under the guidance of a president less familiar than Sir Napier Shaw with international meteorological organisation, the Section might have wasted a certain amount of time in the unprofitable discussion of questions belonging to the field of official administration. The minutes of the five meetings, one of which was held conjointly with the Sections of Hydrology, Oceanography and Terrestrial Magnetism, show that the Commission confined itself to the encouragement and development of experimental and exploratory work in meteorology.