Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Volume 50Royal Meteorological Society, 1924 Phenological report contained in vols. 3-71, issued as a supplement to vols. 73-74, missing from vols. 56-58, 60-62. |
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Page 97 - Laurie), contains the record of experiments made by the author with the aid of a grant from the Government Grant Committee of the Royal Society. The...
Page 167 - Mecanique celeste for the ocean, and which he showed to be also applicable to the atmosphere. When thermal influence is substituted for gravitational, in the tide-generating force reckoned for, and when the modes of oscillation corresponding respectively to the diurnal and semi-diurnal terms of the thermal influence are investigated, it will probably be found that the period of free oscillation of the former agrees much less nearly with 24 hours than does that of the latter with 12 hours; and that,...
Page 167 - The cause of the semidiurnal variation of barometric pressure cannot be the gravitational tide-generating influence of the sun, because, if it were, there would be a much larger lunar influence of the same kind, while in reality the lunar barometric tide is insensible or nearly so. It seems therefore certain that the semidiurnal variation of the barometer is due to temperature. Now the diurnal term, in the Harmonic Analysis of the variation of temperature, is undoubtedly much larger in all, or nearly...
Page 154 - On the effects of volcanic action in the production of epidemic diseases in the animal and in the vegetable creation, and in the production of hurricanes and abnormal atmospherical vicissitudes.
Page 82 - What is it moulds the life of man? The weather. What makes some black and others tan? The weather. What makes the Zulu live in trees. And Congo natives dress in leaves While others go in furs and freeze? The weather.
Page 75 - The following Candidates were balloted for, and elected Fellows of the Society:— Adams, James John, Esq., Finsburyaquare.
Page 13 - Conversely, we ought to admit that a similar area of barometric elevation is usually a locus- of dense descending currents, and therefore of a dispersion of a cold, dry atmosphere, plunging from the higher regions upon the surface of the earth, which, flowing away radially on all sides, becomes at length imbued with a lateral motion due to the above-mentioned cause, though acting in a different manner and in opposite directions
Page 148 - It was proposed by the PRESIDENT, seconded by Dr. TRIPE, and resolved :— " That the Report of the Council be received and adopted, and printed in the Quarterly Journal of the Society.
Page 119 - REPORT TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR SOLAR RESEARCH ON ACTINOMETRIC INVESTIGATIONS OF SOLAR AND ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION.
Page 149 - The Scrutineers then declared the following to be the Council for the ensuing year : — K PRESIDENT.