Handy Book of MeteorologyW. Blackwood and Sons, 1868 - 371 páginas |
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... miles . 29. Other fluids may be used in the construction of baro- meters , which , being lighter than mercury , have columns proportionally longer . Thus , if water , which is nearly 14 times lighter than mercury , be used , the ...
... miles . 29. Other fluids may be used in the construction of baro- meters , which , being lighter than mercury , have columns proportionally longer . Thus , if water , which is nearly 14 times lighter than mercury , be used , the ...
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... miles each way , and from which there is no outlet . The streams which water the country flow into the Salt Lake , and thence pass off by evaporation . Hence , during the winter months , cold air currents flow down into this bowl ...
... miles each way , and from which there is no outlet . The streams which water the country flow into the Salt Lake , and thence pass off by evaporation . Hence , during the winter months , cold air currents flow down into this bowl ...
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... miles in diameter . In this way the summer atmospheric pressure of continents is diminished . The amount of the diminution over nearly all the continent of Asia is about half an inch . This is ITS DISTRIBUTION OVER THE GLOBE . 47.
... miles in diameter . In this way the summer atmospheric pressure of continents is diminished . The amount of the diminution over nearly all the continent of Asia is about half an inch . This is ITS DISTRIBUTION OVER THE GLOBE . 47.
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... mile seaward . in 228. Temperature of the Sea in different parts of the Globe . -Among the papers left in an unfinished state by Admiral Fitzroy , was one on the temperature of the sea . This paper has since been published , and is ...
... mile seaward . in 228. Temperature of the Sea in different parts of the Globe . -Among the papers left in an unfinished state by Admiral Fitzroy , was one on the temperature of the sea . This paper has since been published , and is ...
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... miles off Whitby , to be 59 ° ; on the following morning , twenty - five miles off Newcastle , it was only 52 ° ; in the evening , when four miles off the Fern Islands , it was 54 ° ; and on the morning of the 9th , five miles off St ...
... miles off Whitby , to be 59 ° ; on the following morning , twenty - five miles off Newcastle , it was only 52 ° ; in the evening , when four miles off the Fern Islands , it was 54 ° ; and on the morning of the 9th , five miles off St ...
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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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