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contributor authorLewis, John M.
date accessioned2017-06-09T16:42:14Z
date available2017-06-09T16:42:14Z
date copyright2003/03/01
date issued2003
identifier issn0003-0007
identifier otherams-72586.pdf
identifier urihttp://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4214605
description abstractAlthough aircraft encounters with strong westerly winds during World War II provided the stimulus for postwar research on the jet stream, Wasaburo Ooishi observed these winds in the 1920s. Ooishi's work is reviewed in the context of earlier work in upperair observation and postwar work on the jet stream. An effort is made to reconstruct Ooishi's path to the directorship of Japan's first upper-air observatory by reliance on historical studies and memoirs from the Central Meteorological Observatory. Archival records from Japan's Aerological Observatory have been used to document Ooishi's upperair observations. The first official report from the observatory (written in 1926 and in the auxiliary language of Esperanto) assumes a central role in the study. In this report, data are stratified by season and used to produce the mean seasonal wind profiles. The profile for winter gives the first known evidence of the persistent strong westerlies over Japan that would later become known as the jet stream.
publisherAmerican Meteorological Society
titleOoishi's Observation: Viewed in the Context of Jet Stream Discovery
typeJournal Paper
journal volume84
journal issue3
journal titleBulletin of the American Meteorological Society
identifier doi10.1175/BAMS-84-3-357
journal fristpage357
journal lastpage369
treeBulletin of the American Meteorological Society:;2003:;volume( 084 ):;issue: 003
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