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Under the plan, U.S. and foreign
weather records, some dating back
more than 100 years, will be placed
in a computer system. The com
puter, Bergland says, may give six
to five odds, for example, on the
probability of future drought or the
kind of winter that has gripped the
eastern half of the U.S.
Prof. John Griffiths, who is a pro
fessor at Texas A&M and the official
Texas state climatologist, reminds
that modeling climate by computers
gives answers only as good as the
data put in.
“This is where we re lacking,”
Griffiths pointed out. “We may not
be measuring elements of the at
mosphere that are very important. ”
“For instance, the output of the
sun isn’t measured accurately.
Perhaps there is something there or
in the sea that affects the climate,”
he said. “We just don’t know.”
“We’ve obtained greater knowl
edge of areas of influence in the past
10 years, but I can’t see the day
when we’ll be able to say there will
be a rainstorm over the southern
part of town tomorrow at noon any
more than we can say what the cli
mate in southern Texas will be in 20
years,” Griffiths added.
“The main clue I see for what is
needed now is to plan better for
what we know is going to occur, ” he
emphasized. “There are enough
numbers (information) available to
plan with reasonable efficiency for
stores and reserves of energy
supplies. Early planning between
users and climatologists is essential
and foolish to overlook at this
stage.”
Dr. A. H. Thompson notes that
even current predictions are ig
nored.
This winter was forecast fairly
well, but even if the prediction had
been wrong this year it would have
come true in the next several,” he
said.
Prof. W. K. Henry said “ . . even
if w-e could make the forecasts I
don t think it would make much dif
ference to many farmers; they still
have to try to make a crop.
We can forecast 24 hours ahead
with reasonable accuracy and five
days with some accuracy,” Henry
pointed out. “However, when you
go to six months or more, it’s not the
same kind of forecast. The best one
can do is to say an area will have
higher rainfall or lower tempera
tures. At five years maybe you can
use the climatic averages, but not a
forecast. The skill of prediction de
creases with time.”
Dr. K. C. Brundidge, head of
Texas A&M’s Department of
Meteorology, said, “Nothing is
going to happen other than the di
recting of more information to the
average person.
“More money would be welcome
for research, and computers are
helping to get consistently good
forecasts for up to 36 hours in ad
vance,” Brundidge pointed out.
“However, you can’t forecast what
you can’t see.
“That’s why satellites have been a
big boom, particularly for informa
tion out of the polar and ocean re
gions,” he added. “Our problem is
that upper-air observing stations are
averaging 200 miles apart. A lot can
happen inbetween these stations
that never gets put into the com
puter. Unfortunately this stuff —
showers, winds, etc. — is weather. ”
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ling, student legal advisor.
“I’ll incorporate them into my of-
ce routine,” Kling said. He ex-
ained that the students will sit in
i interviews, take case notes and
irry out research in the library and
mnty clerk’s office.
"The first project will involve the
ragg’s parking lot situation,” Kling
id.
theresl Several students have recently
id their cars towed away from an
area on the east end of University
Square shopping center.
The students say the area is a
public street and not included in the
parking lot owned by Culpepper
Properties.
“I am going to send a student to
the county clerk’s office and have
him dig through the deed records,”
Kling said. “He’ll find out what
exactly is public property and what
is private property.”
The students, screened by the
Pre-Law Society, are required to
have upper level classification, in
tend to apply for law school and be
willing to devote six to eight hours a
week to the job.
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society, worked for Ken Robinson,
former legal advisor, as an assistant
during the past summer session.
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those going to law school,” Kling
said. “They will be able to
familiarize themselves with a little
bit of the law. ”
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Cynthia Ris and Michelle Marti.
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