Handy Book of MeteorologyWilliam Blackwood, 1868 - 371 páginas |
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... SNOW , AND HAIL , XI . WINDS , XII . STORMS , XIII . MISCELLANEOUS , ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY , THUNDERSTORMS , WHIRLWINDS OR WATERSPOUTS AND TROMBES , 168 • 185 208 239 292 292 297 305 AURORA BOREALIS AND TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM , OZONE ...
... SNOW , AND HAIL , XI . WINDS , XII . STORMS , XIII . MISCELLANEOUS , ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY , THUNDERSTORMS , WHIRLWINDS OR WATERSPOUTS AND TROMBES , 168 • 185 208 239 292 292 297 305 AURORA BOREALIS AND TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM , OZONE ...
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... snow , or fair , as the case may be . The benefit of such a practice would , it is justly added , be incalculable , for ere long all who are inte- rested in the weather would be better prepared to take ad- vantage of the warnings of ...
... snow , or fair , as the case may be . The benefit of such a practice would , it is justly added , be incalculable , for ere long all who are inte- rested in the weather would be better prepared to take ad- vantage of the warnings of ...
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... Snow being composed of crystals , with a very large quantity of air entangled among their interstices , is on that account one of the worst conductors of heat . It thus serves to protect the soil in winter in two ways— ( 1 ) it prevents ...
... Snow being composed of crystals , with a very large quantity of air entangled among their interstices , is on that account one of the worst conductors of heat . It thus serves to protect the soil in winter in two ways— ( 1 ) it prevents ...
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... Snow , 657 Flax , 1186 • Garden mould , 472 Raw silk , 1107 Sand , 454 White cotton wool , . 1085 Stone , 390 Lamp - black powder , 961 • Gravel , 288 200. One of the most instructive examples illustrative of this subject that could be ...
... Snow , 657 Flax , 1186 • Garden mould , 472 Raw silk , 1107 Sand , 454 White cotton wool , . 1085 Stone , 390 Lamp - black powder , 961 • Gravel , 288 200. One of the most instructive examples illustrative of this subject that could be ...
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... snow . 220. This peculiar distribution of the temperature only takes place during comparatively calm weather ; during windy and stormy weather the law of the decrease of temperature with the height takes effect . 221. Situations which ...
... snow . 220. This peculiar distribution of the temperature only takes place during comparatively calm weather ; during windy and stormy weather the law of the decrease of temperature with the height takes effect . 221. Situations which ...
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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