Handy Book of MeteorologyWilliam Blackwood, 1868 - 371 sider |
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Side 6
... ledge , his attention was most successfully turned to the inves- tigation of the hygrometry of the atmosphere . Though the practical advantages he anticipated as likely to flow from it 6 HISTORY AND SCOPE OF METEOROLOGY .
... ledge , his attention was most successfully turned to the inves- tigation of the hygrometry of the atmosphere . Though the practical advantages he anticipated as likely to flow from it 6 HISTORY AND SCOPE OF METEOROLOGY .
Side 7
Alexander Buchan. practical advantages he anticipated as likely to flow from it have not been realised , yet this difficult , and , in some points , still obscure department of meteorology , is indebted to him more than to any other ...
Alexander Buchan. practical advantages he anticipated as likely to flow from it have not been realised , yet this difficult , and , in some points , still obscure department of meteorology , is indebted to him more than to any other ...
Side 17
... flow out of the tube , and pass into the cistern , thus raising the level of the cistern ; if , on the other hand , it rises from 29 inches to 30 inches , mercury must flow back from the cistern into the tube , thus lowering the level ...
... flow out of the tube , and pass into the cistern , thus raising the level of the cistern ; if , on the other hand , it rises from 29 inches to 30 inches , mercury must flow back from the cistern into the tube , thus lowering the level ...
Side 21
... flow out at the aperture of the float , thus seriously damaging the instrument . 38. In hanging or fixing the barometer , a perfectly perpendi- cular position must be secured ; for if this be not attended to , the readings will be ...
... flow out at the aperture of the float , thus seriously damaging the instrument . 38. In hanging or fixing the barometer , a perfectly perpendi- cular position must be secured ; for if this be not attended to , the readings will be ...
Side 34
... the sun's rays becomes . heated , the air , expanding upwards and outwards , flows over upon the other hemisphere where the air is colder and denser . There thus revolves round the globe from day to day 34 THE WEIGHT OR PRESSURE.
... the sun's rays becomes . heated , the air , expanding upwards and outwards , flows over upon the other hemisphere where the air is colder and denser . There thus revolves round the globe from day to day 34 THE WEIGHT OR 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 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