Handy Book of MeteorologyWilliam Blackwood, 1868 - 371 páginas |
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... light . A new chapter has been added on " Weather and Storm - Warnings . " Other features of storms yet remaining to be investi- gated , and many undetermined points , in reference par- ticularly to the diathermancy and distribution of ...
... light . A new chapter has been added on " Weather and Storm - Warnings . " Other features of storms yet remaining to be investi- gated , and many undetermined points , in reference par- ticularly to the diathermancy and distribution of ...
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... intellect to give a rational and perfectly satisfactory explanation of them . Viewed in this light , meteorology is the most difficult and involved of the u Α sciences ; hence the only procedure admissible in the first METEOROLOGY. ...
... intellect to give a rational and perfectly satisfactory explanation of them . Viewed in this light , meteorology is the most difficult and involved of the u Α sciences ; hence the only procedure admissible in the first METEOROLOGY. ...
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... light- ning and 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 ...
... light- ning and 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 ...
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... light ; that is , instead of making the vernier a tangent to the mercurial curve , as it should be , it is made the arc of that curve . Fig . 3 . 36. A Travelling Barometer , fig . 4 , has been constructed by Adie of London , which ...
... light ; that is , instead of making the vernier a tangent to the mercurial curve , as it should be , it is made the arc of that curve . Fig . 3 . 36. A Travelling Barometer , fig . 4 , has been constructed by Adie of London , which ...
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... light loose soils are subject to higher temperatures , and to a greater degree of frost , near the surface , than dense heavy soils ; but , on the other hand , that frosts and extreme tem- peratures do not penetrate so far down into light ...
... light loose soils are subject to higher temperatures , and to a greater degree of frost , near the surface , than dense heavy soils ; but , on the other hand , that frosts and extreme tem- peratures do not penetrate so far down into light ...
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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