Handy Book of MeteorologyWilliam Blackwood, 1868 - 371 páginas |
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Página vii
... bad use long made of electricity and other im- perfectly understood agents to explain the causes of atmospheric disturbances ; the fewness of the observed facts in comparison with the vastness of the weather- changes PREFACE . vii.
... bad use long made of electricity and other im- perfectly understood agents to explain the causes of atmospheric disturbances ; the fewness of the observed facts in comparison with the vastness of the weather- changes PREFACE . vii.
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... ELECTRICITY , THUNDERSTORMS , WHIRLWINDS OR WATERSPOUTS AND TROMBES , 168 • 185 208 239 292 292 297 305 AURORA BOREALIS AND TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM , OZONE , 308 313 • OPTICAL PHENOMENA , METEORS , XIV . WEATHER , AND STORM - WARNINGS ...
... ELECTRICITY , THUNDERSTORMS , WHIRLWINDS OR WATERSPOUTS AND TROMBES , 168 • 185 208 239 292 292 297 305 AURORA BOREALIS AND TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM , OZONE , 308 313 • OPTICAL PHENOMENA , METEORS , XIV . WEATHER , AND STORM - WARNINGS ...
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... electricity of the atmosphere . INVENTION OF METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS . 6. The Barometer . - The invention of the barometer by Torricelli in 1643 , and the experimental proof of the weight of the atmosphere by means of it , a few ...
... electricity of the atmosphere . INVENTION OF METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS . 6. The Barometer . - The invention of the barometer by Torricelli in 1643 , and the experimental proof of the weight of the atmosphere by means of it , a few ...
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... electricity , thus giving an interest and an impetus to electrical observations . The brilliant discoveries which have recently been made on the mutual relations of electri- city , magnetism , heat , motion , and the other forces of ...
... electricity , thus giving an interest and an impetus to electrical observations . The brilliant discoveries which have recently been made on the mutual relations of electri- city , magnetism , heat , motion , and the other forces of ...
Página 291
... , which would supply the information desiderated - viz . , trust- worthy facts , in place of vague and unsatisfactory theorisings . T CHAPTER XIII . MISCELLANEOUS . ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY . 579. THE GENERAL REMARKS . 291.
... , which would supply the information desiderated - viz . , trust- worthy facts , in place of vague and unsatisfactory theorisings . T CHAPTER XIII . MISCELLANEOUS . ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY . 579. THE GENERAL REMARKS . 291.
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America antisolar point ascending Asia Atlantic atmospheric pressure average barometer blow Britain calm causes centre charts cirrus cirrus cloud cistern climate cloud coast cold colder column condensed continent Crown 8vo daily dew-point diminished direction dry air earth earth's surface east Edition electricity equator equatorial current Europe evaporation falls Fcap feet flow globe greater heat height hemisphere Hence high pressure higher hour humidity hygrometer Iceland inch of mercury inches increase Indian Ocean isobarometric lines January John Herschel July latitudes low pressure lower Mauritius maximum mean temperature mercury Meteorological meter miles moisture monsoon months northern northern hemisphere Norway observations occur ocean Orkney perature Plate polar current polarisation prevail Professor rain rainfall regions rises round Scotland season snow soil St Petersburg storm summer temperature terrestrial radiation thermometers tion tropics tube upper currents vapour vols weather wind winter Yakutsk