Gold set up the first operational (military) meteorological service and demonstrated the vital role of meteorologists to the military hierarchy. He was mentioned in dispatches and was awarded the DSO and OBE and rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.
Gold oversaw not only the creation of an operational weather service but also the development of international aviation services, becoming President of the Commission for Synoptic Weather Information of the International Meteorological Organization (now the
World Meteorological Organization).
^"Ernest Gold, C.B., O.B.E., D.S.O., F.R.S. President of the Royal Meteorological Society 1934–1936". Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 102 (434): 945–947. 1976.
Bibcode:
1976QJRMS.102..945..
doi:
10.1002/qj.49710243425.