RAAF Meteorological Service
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Weather Factor in Warfare
The Weather and Chemical Warfare
Weather Control
Chapter 2: Establishing and Developing the RAAF Directorate of Met. Services (D.Met.S)
Chapter 3: Recruiting and Training of Personnel
Chapter 4: Meteorology in Aviation
Chapter 5: The Met. Retreating
Chapter 6: The Met. Advancing
Chapter 7: The Met With the Army and the Navy
Chapter 8: Divisional Offices of the Bureau of Meteorology During the War
Chapter 9: Research and Instrumental Development
Chapter 10: The End, Aftermath, and Beyond
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Appendix 4
References
Index
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Weather Control
'Everybody talks about the weather', remarked Mark Twain, 'but nobody does anything about it'. The experienced meteorologist may have retorted, 'Nobody can do much about it'.The weather is so much bigger than all of us and anything we do. To date, human attempts to control it have been relatively infinitesimal and abortive. The imagination shrinks from the notion of any world power gaining control of the weather. Such a notion, if realised, would make our existing modern weapons ineffectual, and put the world at the mercy of the controller. Just imagine the fate of a task force, an air fleet, a city or a harbour, if any enemy could attack it with a directed tropical cyclone, typhoon or tornado with pin-point accuracy.
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