Handy Book of MeteorologyW. Blackwood and Sons, 1868 - 371 páginas |
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... high winds is illustrated by the Great Hurricane which was so severely felt at Edinburgh on the 24th Jan- uary 1868 ... pressure in a very clear light . A new chapter has been added on " Weather and Storm - Warnings . " Other features of ...
... high winds is illustrated by the Great Hurricane which was so severely felt at Edinburgh on the 24th Jan- uary 1868 ... pressure in a very clear light . A new chapter has been added on " Weather and Storm - Warnings . " Other features of ...
Página ix
... height from the pressure and temperature at the place as compared with places in the vicinity whose heights were ... high , the observations at this important station had reluctantly to be omitted in the construction of the Isobarometric ...
... height from the pressure and temperature at the place as compared with places in the vicinity whose heights were ... high , the observations at this important station had reluctantly to be omitted in the construction of the Isobarometric ...
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... high and sometimes too low . The simplest and rudest way of compensating for this error is to ascer- tain ( 1 ) the neutral point of the instrument - that is , the height at which it stands when the zero of the scale is on a level with ...
... high and sometimes too low . The simplest and rudest way of compensating for this error is to ascer- tain ( 1 ) the neutral point of the instrument - that is , the height at which it stands when the zero of the scale is on a level with ...
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... pressure is increased or diminished ; and as a small quantity of air is left in the top of the tube , the column of spirits of wine rises or falls with the pressure ... high . If the tubes were filled as those of sympiesometers are , this ...
... pressure is increased or diminished ; and as a small quantity of air is left in the top of the tube , the column of spirits of wine rises or falls with the pressure ... high . If the tubes were filled as those of sympiesometers are , this ...
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... Height . In comparing barometric observations at different places , we must take account of their respective heights above the sea ; for as we rise above the level of the sea , a portion of the atmosphere is left be- hind , and the pressure ...
... Height . In comparing barometric observations at different places , we must take account of their respective heights above the sea ; for as we rise above the level of the sea , a portion of the atmosphere is left be- hind , and the pressure ...
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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 minimum 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 south-west St Petersburg storms summer temperature terrestrial radiation thermometers tion tropics tube upper currents vols weather wind winter Yakutsk
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