Handy Book of MeteorologyWilliam Blackwood, 1868 - 371 páginas |
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Página viii
... observation , pointed out how they are liable to get out of order , and explained the methods by which they may be put right when they happen to go wrong . The methods of reducing Meteorological Observations are explained at length ...
... observation , pointed out how they are liable to get out of order , and explained the methods by which they may be put right when they happen to go wrong . The methods of reducing Meteorological Observations are explained at length ...
Página ix
... Observations , the following information ought to be given : 1. The hour or hours of observation ; 2. The height of the cistern of the barometer above the sea ; 3 . The latitude and longitude ; 4. The barometer reduced to 32 ° F. , and ...
... Observations , the following information ought to be given : 1. The hour or hours of observation ; 2. The height of the cistern of the barometer above the sea ; 3 . The latitude and longitude ; 4. The barometer reduced to 32 ° F. , and ...
Página x
... observations , to state the hour or hours at which they were made . When this is not done , much confusion and unsatisfactoriness is the result . Sometimes daily barometric means alone are published ; that is , if three observations are ...
... observations , to state the hour or hours at which they were made . When this is not done , much confusion and unsatisfactoriness is the result . Sometimes daily barometric means alone are published ; that is , if three observations are ...
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... observations of the most valuable description . The comparative temperatures of different countries became known , and the exaggerated accounts of travellers with regard to ex- cessive heat and cold prevailing in foreign countries ...
... observations of the most valuable description . The comparative temperatures of different countries became known , and the exaggerated accounts of travellers with regard to ex- cessive heat and cold prevailing in foreign countries ...
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... observations and experiments which did much to elucidate the subject . Of these , the first place is unques- tionably due to Patrick Wilson , whose ' Memoirs of Certain Great Frosts at Glasgow , ' about 1780 , show a fidelity of observation ...
... observations and experiments which did much to elucidate the subject . Of these , the first place is unques- tionably due to Patrick Wilson , whose ' Memoirs of Certain Great Frosts at Glasgow , ' about 1780 , show a fidelity of observation ...
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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