After the advent of the telegraph, simultaneous surface weather observations became possible for the first time, and beginning in the late 1840s, the Smithsonian Institution became the first ...

After the advent of the telegraph, simultaneous surface weather observations became possible for the first time, and beginning in the late 1840s, the Smithsonian Institution became the first ...

Technological advances are taking place in four major areas: weather radar; surface weather observation; weather satellites; and information processing and communications. The following is an ...