Commission du Réseau Mondial
The Commission du Réseau Mondial was a project of the International Meteorological Committee which was to actualize and accelerate the tendency toward sharing of weather information among groups worldwide.
Léon Teisserenc de Bort was president of this committee, as well as the instigator for its creation; Hugo Hildebrand Hildebrandsson was secretary. The committee, though not the vision, lost steam after the death of Teisserenc de Bort and the retirement of Hildebrandsson.[1]
In 1905, the French meteorologist Léon Teisserenc de Bort began to advocate collecting daily data via telegraph from a set of stations representing the entire globe. Two years later he succeeded in getting the IMO to appoint a Commission for the Résau Mondial. The commission immediately scaled back Teisserenc de Bort's grand plan, reducing its goal to publishing monthly and annual averages for pressure, temperature, and precipitation from a well-distributed sample of meteorological stations on land. The standard for distribution was two stations within each 10° latitude-longitude square (an area about twice the size of France). Ultimately, the network included about 500 land stations, from 80°N to 61°S; the oceans were not covered at all.[2]
The process of collecting and compiling data proved laborious, and the first annual report, from 1911, was not published until 1917.[2]
References
Links
- T. de B.'s proposed station list in 1909: [1]
| Organization names | Commission du Réseau Mondial; International Commission on the System of World-stations |
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| Scope | International |
| Started aero | 1907 |
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| Key people | Léon Teisserenc de Bort, Hugo Hildebrand Hildebrandsson |
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