The Law of Storms: Considered in Connection with the Ordinary Movements of the Atmosphere |
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... Dantzic , Bütsow , Zechen , Berlin , Halle , Mühlhausen , Carlsruhe , Middelburg , Utrecht , Hamburg , Apenrade , Copenhagen , Paris , London , Chiswick , Oxford , Dublin , and Reikiavik . Thermal for Yakutsk , Irkutsk , Tara , Moscow ...
... Dantzic , Bütsow , Zechen , Berlin , Halle , Mühlhausen , Carlsruhe , Middelburg , Utrecht , Hamburg , Apenrade , Copenhagen , Paris , London , Chiswick , Oxford , Dublin , and Reikiavik . Thermal for Yakutsk , Irkutsk , Tara , Moscow ...
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... DANTZIC ( calculated by Galle ) from Galle , Zur Prüfung des von Dove aufgestellten Gesetzes über das verschiedene Verhalten der Ost- und Westseite der Windrose ' ( A Test of the Law laid down by Dove on the Differences observable ...
... DANTZIC ( calculated by Galle ) from Galle , Zur Prüfung des von Dove aufgestellten Gesetzes über das verschiedene Verhalten der Ost- und Westseite der Windrose ' ( A Test of the Law laid down by Dove on the Differences observable ...
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... DANTZIC Morning to Evening In 16 hours 16 Years 5 10 3 15 Fluctuation In 12 hours 121 8 14 Inches Inches Inches Inches Inches Inches WSW . W. + 0.0014 + 0.0026 + 0.0425 + 0.0393 + 0.011 +0.045 +0.0258 + 0.0391 Inches + 0.0139 +0.0052 ...
... DANTZIC Morning to Evening In 16 hours 16 Years 5 10 3 15 Fluctuation In 12 hours 121 8 14 Inches Inches Inches Inches Inches Inches WSW . W. + 0.0014 + 0.0026 + 0.0425 + 0.0393 + 0.011 +0.045 +0.0258 + 0.0391 Inches + 0.0139 +0.0052 ...
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... Dantzic it is WSW . It is , how- ever , more important to decide whether the result is not effected by the change in the mean direction of the wind at the different seasons . It appears from the following tables that the law of ...
... Dantzic it is WSW . It is , how- ever , more important to decide whether the result is not effected by the change in the mean direction of the wind at the different seasons . It appears from the following tables that the law of ...
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... Dantzic give the following fluctua- tions for 16 winds : - : - January February March . April May . June July August . September . October November . December . • NNE . NE . ENE . E. ESE . SE . SSE . S. ... +0.030 +0.032 -0.010-0.021 + ...
... Dantzic give the following fluctua- tions for 16 winds : - : - January February March . April May . June July August . September . October November . December . • NNE . NE . ENE . E. ESE . SE . SSE . S. ... +0.030 +0.032 -0.010-0.021 + ...
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Page 197 - ... a distant roar, and the lightning, which from midnight had flashed and darted forkedly with few and but momentary intermissions, now, for a space of nearly half a minute, played frightfully between the clouds and the earth. The vast body of vapour appeared to touch the houses, and issued downward flaming blazes, which were nimbly returned from the earth upward.
Page 198 - ... seemed as if they would defy all obstruction ; yet as they broke over the careenage they seemed to be lost, the surface of it being entirely covered with floating wrecks of every description ; it was an undulating body of lumber, shingles, staves, barrels, trusses of hay, and every kind of merchandise of a buoyant nature.
Page 78 - But if it move contrary to the motion of the sun, that is if it changes from east to north, from north to west, from west to south, from south to east, it generally returns to the former...
Page 107 - When the wind veers against the sun, Trust it not, for back it will run.
Page 166 - Notes and Diagrams illustrative of the Directions of the Forces acting at and near the Surface of the Earth, in different parts of the Brunswick Tornado of June 10, 1835.
Page 24 - N. NNE. NE. ENE. E. ESE. SE. SSE. S. SSW. SW. WSW. W. WNW. NW. NNW.
Page 194 - ... generalization on the part of the author, who must be ranked as an early leader among American geographers. The map contains a number of explanatory legends, inserted where topographical details were wanting ; and here we find, among various items, a significant statement regarding the movement of storms : " All our great storms begin to leeward ; thus a NE storm shall be a day sooner in Virginia than in Boston.
Page 100 - Increasing in strength, it draws to the westward gradually, and blows hardest between north and north-west, with heavy clouds, thick weather, and much rain. " When the fury of the north-wester is expended, which varies from twelve to fifty hours, or even while it is blowing hard, the wind sometimes shifts suddenly into the south-west quarter, blowing harder than before.
Page 265 - ... opposite to that of the hands of a watch ; in the southern...
Page 35 - In some places the time of the change is attended with calms, in others with variable winds. And it often happens on the...