 Atmospheric currents, in high latitudes, when undisturbed, are westerly, particularly in the winter season. If storms and gales revolve by a fixed law, and we are able, by studying these disturbing causes of the usual atmospheric currents, to distinguish...  Spherical Astronomy - Page 161by Franz Brünnow - 1865 - 559 pagesFull view - About this book
 | René Just Haüy - Physics - 1807 - 478 pages
...determinate volume- of mercury and that of an equal volume of air, at the .temperature of thawing ice, and at the mean height of the barometer at the surface of the sea. This height is very nearly 76 centimetres (28 French or 29 '9 English inches), and the specific gravity... | |
 | Asia - 1829 - 1030 pages
...day; sometimes every half hour, and even every ten minutes. This multitude of observations will shew the mean height of the barometer at the surface of the sea, and its daily sum at a distance from land, that is, in circumstances where the temperature scarcely... | |
 | 1830 - 452 pages
...day ; sometimes every half hour, and even every ten minutes. This multitude of observations will shew the mean height of the barometer at the surface of the sea, and its daily sum at a distance from land, that is, in circumstances where the temperature scarcely... | |
 | James Hann, Isaac Dodds - Mechanics - 1833 - 234 pages
...atmosphere is measured by a column of mercury of 29'922 inches, which has been adopted in France as the mean height of the barometer at the surface of the sea. Kksticity ot steam, the pressure of the atmosphere being 1. Elasticity of steam, the irtssurc of the... | |
 | John Weale - Architecture - 1850 - 600 pages
...atmosphere is measured by a cohimn of mercury of 29-922 inches, which has been adopted in France as the mean height of the barometer at the surface of the sea Atmospheric currents, in high latitudes, when undisturbed, are westerly, particularly in the winter... | |
 | John Weale - 1850 - 590 pages
...Theatmosphere is measuredbyacolumn of mercury of 29'922 inches, which has been adopted in France as the mean height of the barometer at the surface of the sea Atmospheric currents, in high latitudes, when undisturbed, are westerly, particularly in the winter... | |
 | John Weale - Architecture - 1859 - 622 pages
...atmosphere is measured by a column of mercury of 29E922 inches, which has been adopted in France as the mean height of the barometer at the surface of the sea. Atmonpheric current», in high latitudes, when undisturbed, are westerly, particularly in the winter... | |
 | Franz Brünnow - 1865 - 592 pages
...of 8" Reaumur = 10" Celsius = 50" Fahrenheit, we have according to Bessel: /„ •= 4'2~2('< .()'> toises, equal to the mean height of the barometer...of the pressure is equal to the small column of air gdr multiplied by the force of gravity at the distance r, hence we have: and dividing this equation... | |
 | George Elliot Voyle, G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson - English language - 1876 - 676 pages
...atmosphere is measured by a column of mercury of '29'922 inches, which has been adopted in France as the : mean height of the barometer at the surface of the sea. Atmosphere, Pressure of — The weight of the atmosphere with a barometric pressure of 30 inches, which... | |
 | Asia - 1829 - 792 pages
...day; sometimes every half hour, and even every ten minutes. This multitude of observations will shew the mean height of the barometer at the surface of the sea, and its daily sum at a distance from land, that is, in circumstances where the temperature scarcely... | |
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