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Surface Weather Observing Manuals

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Manuals and instructions for taking weather observations. Includes the annual Weather Bureau 'Instructions for Preparing Meteorological Forms...' and early airways descriptions from the 1920s and 1930s prepared by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce.

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