Handy Book of MeteorologyWilliam Blackwood, 1868 - 371 páginas |
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Página viii
... height of barometers above the level of the sea , accur- ately ascertained , is a serious desideratum in not a few ... heights has occasion- ed viii PREFACE .
... height of barometers above the level of the sea , accur- ately ascertained , is a serious desideratum in not a few ... heights has occasion- ed viii PREFACE .
Página ix
... heights were known . When the place was isolated from other stations the annoyance was still greater . Thus , since the height of Santiago de Chile , usually given at 2600 feet , is evidently 500 or 600 feet too high , the observations ...
... heights were known . When the place was isolated from other stations the annoyance was still greater . Thus , since the height of Santiago de Chile , usually given at 2600 feet , is evidently 500 or 600 feet too high , the observations ...
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... height of clouds , on thunder , and on me- teors ; and the relations of magnetism and the aurora borealis , -are some of the important questions discussed in these remarkable essays , with an acuteness , a fulness , and a breadth of ...
... height of clouds , on thunder , and on me- teors ; and the relations of magnetism and the aurora borealis , -are some of the important questions discussed in these remarkable essays , with an acuteness , a fulness , and a breadth of ...
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... heights , the trade- winds , evaporation , and natural and artificial climates . While in all these departments he contributed largely to our know- ledge , his attention was most successfully turned to the inves- tigation of the ...
... heights , the trade- winds , evaporation , and natural and artificial climates . While in all these departments he contributed largely to our know- ledge , his attention was most successfully turned to the inves- tigation of the ...
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... height of a column of mercury supported by the pressure of the atmosphere . From this height the weight of the atmosphere is ascertained . The fundamental principle of the barometer cannot be better illustrated than by Torricelli's ...
... height of a column of mercury supported by the pressure of the atmosphere . From this height the weight of the atmosphere is ascertained . The fundamental principle of the barometer cannot be better illustrated than by Torricelli's ...
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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