II. — Chili

Extract

I believe it is very difficult to make any recommendations or give any advice for site survey expeditions except of a very general nature. When you start out anew, then, as Dr. Scorer has already stressed very strongly, the first thing you have to do is to contact the meteorological office or the local meteorologist. There is no need to go into detail for I think you all realize that the statistics presented by the weather bureau do not serve our purpose. They are made for a different purpose than ours, and you will always have to go back to the original records and pull out from them the data that may be useful. Suppose you have done this, and you have located either on a world-wide scale the country that is the most promising, or within the country the most promising place as far as cloudiness is concerned. Then what are the next steps ?