Research (continued)

I prepared my paper published in the Quarterly Journal in 1953 while at MIT and compared the hemispheric circulations in the northern and southern hemisphere. I used the January and July 1949 US Weather Bureau northern hemispheric MSL analyses and the July 1949 and the January 1950 MIT southern hemisphere MSL analyses to compare the circulations, presuming that January was mid-summer in the southern hemisphere and midwinter in the northern hemisphere and vice versa for July. There were considerable differences between hemispheres in the distribution of cyclones and anticyclones when the midsummers and midwinters were compared.

I also compared meridional cross sections of wind and temperature from 60 deg N to 80 deg S. I concluded that the two hemispheres had the same general circulations but that the distributions of MSL cyclones and anticyclones were basically different.

Other research projects were concerned with Southern Ocean analysis, forecasting the jet stream and with an investigation for the PMG's Department in installing microwave links to supplement or replace the telephone links between major population centres in Australia. The preparation of the three-part ANARE publication by Gibbs, Gotley and Martin (1952) has been discussed in Chapter 1.

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