| Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - 1883 - 308 pages
...given rise to the simple law, propounded by Dr. Buys Ballot, for the Northern Hemisphere, viz. : — " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right." In cyclones the wind circulates in the opposite way to which the hands... | |
| Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - 1883 - 304 pages
...given rise to the simple law, propounded by Dr. Buys Ballot, for the Northern Hemisphere, viz. : — " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower 28 QUARTERLY JOURNAL OP THE METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY. on your left hand than on your right." In cyclones... | |
| Great Britain. Meteorological Office - 1884 - 66 pages
...explained, and it may be thus enunciated :— FOR THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE. FOB THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE. Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right. Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on... | |
| 1884 - 624 pages
...given rise to the following simple law for the northern hemisphere— known as Buys Ballot's—viz., "Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right." The regions of low pressure are called cyclones, and the regions of... | |
| Vermont. State Board of Agriculture - 1884 - 454 pages
...the left hand. This has given rise to the simple rule or law of storms for this hemisphere, viz. : " Stand with your back to the wind and the barometer will be lower on your left than at your right." In cyclones the wind circulates in the opposite way to which the hands of... | |
| 1884 - 650 pages
...rise to the following simple law for the northern hemisphere — known as Buys Ballot's — viz., " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right" The regions of low pressure are called cyclones, and the regions of high... | |
| Ralph Abercromby - 1885 - 146 pages
...adjoining areas of high and low pressure is given by the following rules. The general rule is : — Stand with your back to the wind and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right. Thus the wind may be expected to be : — Easterly, when the pressure... | |
| Robert Henry Scott - 1885 - 458 pages
...the name of Buys Ballot's Law. It is generally stated as follows : — ' In the northern hemisphere, stand with your back to the wind and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right. ' In the southern hemisphere, stand with your back to the wind and the... | |
| 1886 - 592 pages
...adjacent stations, not • on its actual heights. Guys Ballot's Law is, for the northern hemisphere, " Stand with your back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your lelt hand than on your right." This rule is reversed in south latitude. The wind force depends on the... | |
| 1887 - 692 pages
...the difference hemispheres towards the equator. icjr nit1 iiui LIICI ii iiemiBUucie. . n,um wini vuui back to the wind, and the barometer will be lower on your left hand than on your right." This rule is reversed in south latitude. The wind force depends on the... | |
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