Handy Book of MeteorologyWilliam Blackwood, 1868 - 371 páginas |
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... greater part of the work . The chapters on " The Distribution of Atmospheric Pressure over the Globe , " and " The Relation of Atmospheric Pressure to the Tem- perature , " are wholly new , and the Chapter on " Winds is almost ...
... greater part of the work . The chapters on " The Distribution of Atmospheric Pressure over the Globe , " and " The Relation of Atmospheric Pressure to the Tem- perature , " are wholly new , and the Chapter on " Winds is almost ...
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... greater . Thus , since the height of Santiago de Chile , usually given at 2600 feet , is evidently 500 or 600 feet too high , the observations at this important station had reluctantly to be omitted in the construction . of the ...
... greater . Thus , since the height of Santiago de Chile , usually given at 2600 feet , is evidently 500 or 600 feet too high , the observations at this important station had reluctantly to be omitted in the construction . of the ...
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... greater part of the northern hemisphere . The observations published by the Meteorological Institute of Norway may be referred to as models of daily Meteorological Records . Uniformity in the methods of observation practised by ...
... greater part of the northern hemisphere . The observations published by the Meteorological Institute of Norway may be referred to as models of daily Meteorological Records . Uniformity in the methods of observation practised by ...
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... greater fulness of detail by the Government of the United States of America , in the beauti- ful and elaborate series of Charts of Temperature and Rainfall published in The Army Meteorological Register ' for 1855 . IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES ...
... greater fulness of detail by the Government of the United States of America , in the beauti- ful and elaborate series of Charts of Temperature and Rainfall published in The Army Meteorological Register ' for 1855 . IMPORTANT DISCOVERIES ...
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... greater than usual , and a change of the wind from its ordinary direction , indicate the presence of a storm at no great distance . By closely watching the wind and the barometer , the course the storm is taking can be readily known ...
... greater than usual , and a change of the wind from its ordinary direction , indicate the presence of a storm at no great distance . By closely watching the wind and the barometer , the course the storm is taking can be readily known ...
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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