Handy Book of MeteorologyWilliam Blackwood, 1868 - 371 páginas |
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... tion to our welfare and interests . Improvements were made on the instrument by an Italian artist about 1655 , who used wider tubes , terminating in bulbs , and filled with alcohol ; and by Römer , who used mercury , and , starting from ...
... tion to our welfare and interests . Improvements were made on the instrument by an Italian artist about 1655 , who used wider tubes , terminating in bulbs , and filled with alcohol ; and by Römer , who used mercury , and , starting from ...
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... tion . The knowledge thereby acquired of the prevailing winds in different parts of the earth during the different seasons of the year , the region of calms , the parts of the oceans swept by devastating storms at particular seasons ...
... tion . The knowledge thereby acquired of the prevailing winds in different parts of the earth during the different seasons of the year , the region of calms , the parts of the oceans swept by devastating storms at particular seasons ...
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... tion . This state of things is the necessary consequence of the general neglect which meteorology receives in our educa- tional system . There are , however , a few noteworthy excep- tions . Meteorology has been taught for upwards of ...
... tion . This state of things is the necessary consequence of the general neglect which meteorology receives in our educa- tional system . There are , however , a few noteworthy excep- tions . Meteorology has been taught for upwards of ...
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... tion to be made to the observed height to give the true height . 34. The other error is technically called the error of capacity , and arises in this way : The height of the barometer is the dis- tance between the surface of the mercury ...
... tion to be made to the observed height to give the true height . 34. The other error is technically called the error of capacity , and arises in this way : The height of the barometer is the dis- tance between the surface of the mercury ...
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Alexander Buchan. till it reaches the maximum at the poles . This correc- tion is also small , being , for 1000 feet , less than 0.001 inch in Great Britain , and less than 0.003 inch at the equator and at the poles . 55. Since air is ...
Alexander Buchan. till it reaches the maximum at the poles . This correc- tion is also small , being , for 1000 feet , less than 0.001 inch in Great Britain , and less than 0.003 inch at the equator and at the poles . 55. Since air is ...
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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