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Three-dimensional model weather map device designed at Tinker Air Force Base

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Three-dimensional model weather map device designed at Tinker Air Force Base.This device allowed forecasters at Tinker AFB to improve forecasts by allowingthe visualization of weather patterns in 3-D over a fairly large area. Such adevice was first devised in 1935 by I. I. Zellon, a United States Bureaumeteorologist at Pittsburgh, PA. Weather Service Bull. 6, 02/25/1949. P. 13.

Credit

Headquarters Air Weather Service; Courtesy of the family of Nels Johnson, United States Weather Bureau (dec.)

Display Date

1949

Collection

Weather Service