Handy Book of MeteorologyWilliam Blackwood, 1868 - 371 páginas |
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... up the science of meteorology , we may infer that they occupied men's minds ... current from hand to hand , so that there is per- haps no science of which ... up the subject , classifying the commonly received opinions of the weather ...
... up the science of meteorology , we may infer that they occupied men's minds ... current from hand to hand , so that there is per- haps no science of which ... up the subject , classifying the commonly received opinions of the weather ...
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Alexander Buchan. is situated in a vast natural depression in the high table - land of America , measuring 500 miles each ... flow into the Salt Lake , and thence pass off by evaporation . Hence , during the winter months , cold air currents ...
Alexander Buchan. is situated in a vast natural depression in the high table - land of America , measuring 500 miles each ... flow into the Salt Lake , and thence pass off by evaporation . Hence , during the winter months , cold air currents ...
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... up by the denser air which surrounds it . Hence when it attains a height at which the ... upper beds less dense and heavy . It fol- lows from this that the greater ... currents of the atmosphere , the heated air which rises from them ; 48 ...
... up by the denser air which surrounds it . Hence when it attains a height at which the ... upper beds less dense and heavy . It fol- lows from this that the greater ... currents of the atmosphere , the heated air which rises from them ; 48 ...
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... high ; but this pressure is due both to the upper currents from South America and Africa , and to the increased pressure which prevails over the whole of the southern hemisphere at this season . 100. The extension of the area of high ...
... high ; but this pressure is due both to the upper currents from South America and Africa , and to the increased pressure which prevails over the whole of the southern hemisphere at this season . 100. The extension of the area of high ...
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... high mean pressure must be upper currents flowing towards it and over it from the four regions of low pressure , -lying respectively to the east , the south , the south - east , and the west . 106. This area of high barometer is ...
... high mean pressure must be upper currents flowing towards it and over it from the four regions of low pressure , -lying respectively to the east , the south , the south - east , and the west . 106. This area of high barometer 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