Abstract
This period, beginning about mid-1886, is classified as “cloud studies” because these have proved to be the most important of the time; nevertheless, weather forecasting, improvement of instruments, and many other activities continued to take place.
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Conover, J.H. (1990). Cloud Studies: 1886–1894. In: The Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-940033-82-2_5
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