Record ID:
35571825 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 79049341
Heading:
Used for:
  • United States. Department of Agriculture. Weather Bureau
  • United States. Department of Commerce. Weather Bureau
  • United States. Environmental Science Services Administration. Weather Bureau
  • Weather Bureau (U.S.)
See also:
Notes:
  • Unused subdivisions: Instrument Division; Aerological Division; Marine Division; Meteorological Research Division; Short Range Forecast Development Section; Instrumental Engineering Division; Cooperative Studies Section; Facilities and Meteorological Observations Division; Technical Investigations Section; Spaceflight Meteorology Group
  • LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: United States. Army. Signal Corps; Signal officer of the Army was authorized by act June 20, 1860; Signal Corps organ. 1863; by joint resolution 12, Feb. 9, 1870, work of the Signal Corps was extended to embrace the taking of meterological observations; by act approved Oct. 1, 1890, the Weather Bureau was created and meterological work of the Signal office was transferred thereto)
  • DAH (under: Weather Service; est. 1870 under Army Signal Service; in 1891 assigned to Dept. of Agriculture; at this time, name Weather Bureau was designated; in 1940 Bureau transferred to Dept. of Commerce; in 1970 National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration was established and bureau renamed National Weather Service)
Local system number:
  • 000000575169
  • abv00476223
  • (AuCNL)252499
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC InU OCoLC DLC ANL
Authentication code:
  • kin