ABSTRACT
Advances in technology have, for instance, created new demands for weather information, but they have also generated new atmospheric hazards. The evaluation of the atmospheric environment, however, transcends the borders of customary disciplines, and as Petterssen. S has noted, meteorology may therefore be called upon to perform an even greater number of services to meet the needs of a crowded world. Many of the services required are types with which meteorologists are already familiar: disaster warnings, services to aviation, tourism, shipping and the general public. Fortunately, developments in the 1960’s advanced the concept of atmospheric resources, the international projects of the World Weather Watch (W.W.W.) and the Global Atmospheric Research Programme (G.A.R.P.) being especially noteworthy. The Global Atmospheric Research Programme should also provide a research resource that may stimulate global weather modification processes so that in the future we may know just how far we can go deliberately, or may go inadvertently, in changing the weather and climate.
