Handy Book of MeteorologyWilliam Blackwood, 1868 - 371 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 37
Página 29
... equator than it does at the poles . Now , since at the equator gravity diminishes least rapidly with the height , the air of the atmosphere will at any given height weigh more there than anywhere else on the globe at the same height as ...
... equator than it does at the poles . Now , since at the equator gravity diminishes least rapidly with the height , the air of the atmosphere will at any given height weigh more there than anywhere else on the globe at the same height as ...
Página 30
... equator and at the poles . 55. Since air is denser when the pressure is 30 inches than when it is 28 inches , the correction for height will be considerably greater in the one case than in the other . And again , since air is denser at ...
... equator and at the poles . 55. Since air is denser when the pressure is 30 inches than when it is 28 inches , the correction for height will be considerably greater in the one case than in the other . And again , since air is denser at ...
Página 36
... equator towards either pole , for the obvious reason that they depend , directly or indirectly , on the heating power of the sun's rays : TABLE SHOWING THE DAILY VARIATIONS AND RANGE OF THE BAROMETER 36 THE WEIGHT OR PRESSURE.
... equator towards either pole , for the obvious reason that they depend , directly or indirectly , on the heating power of the sun's rays : TABLE SHOWING THE DAILY VARIATIONS AND RANGE OF THE BAROMETER 36 THE WEIGHT OR PRESSURE.
Página 37
... equator the daily fluctuation is 0.125 inch , in Great Britain it is only a sixth part of that amount . It is very small in the high latitudes of St Petersburg and Bosse- kop ; and in still higher latitudes , at that period of the year ...
... equator the daily fluctuation is 0.125 inch , in Great Britain it is only a sixth part of that amount . It is very small in the high latitudes of St Petersburg and Bosse- kop ; and in still higher latitudes , at that period of the year ...
Página 39
... equator , where temperature and moisture differ little in the course of the year , there is little variation in the mean pressure from month to month . Thus , at Cayenne , the pressure in January is 29.903 inches , * and in July 29.957 ...
... equator , where temperature and moisture differ little in the course of the year , there is little variation in the mean pressure from month to month . Thus , at Cayenne , the pressure in January is 29.903 inches , * and in July 29.957 ...
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Palavras e frases frequentes
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