The Foretelling of the Weather in Connexion with Meteorological Observations, by F. H. Klein
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Author : Achille Adriani
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Author : F. H. Klein
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,28 MB
Release : 1863
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Author : F. H. Klein
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Page : 42 pages
File Size : 24,71 MB
Release : 1863
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Author : F. H. Klein
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Page : 31 pages
File Size : 21,8 MB
Release : 1863
Category : Meteorology
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Author : F. H. Klein
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Release : 1863
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Author : Jerry Lockett
Publisher : Formac Publishing Company Limited
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,80 MB
Release : 2012-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1459500814
In the mid-nineteenth century, the new science of weather forecasting was fraught with controversy on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, a bitter dispute about the nature of storms had raged for decades, and forecasting was hampered by turf wars then halted by the Civil War. Forecasters in England struggled with the scientific establishment for recognition and vied with astrologers and other charlatans for public acceptance. One of the voices in this struggle was Stephen Saxby, a British naval instructor who thought he had found a sure-fire way of forecasting storms. He championed a popular but somewhat eccentric theory that weather disturbances are linked to stages in the moon's orbit of the earth. Saxby got lucky. One of his well-known long-range predictions--for a serious storm on October 4, 1869--was right on the button. On that very day, a deadly hurricane caused massive floods along the eastern seaboard of the United States then barrelled ashore at the Canadian border. The timing of the storm could hardly have been worse. Coinciding with an extremely high tide, the resulting storm surge breached centuries-old dykes at the head of the Bay of Fundy. In The Discovery of Weather, author Jerry Lockett traces the early days of weather forecasting, the background to Saxby's prediction, and the drama of the storm itself.
Author : Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain)
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Page : 316 pages
File Size : 37,67 MB
Release : 1873
Category : Meteorology
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Vols. 10-11 include Meteorology of England by James Glaisher as seperately paged section at end.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 33,97 MB
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368189794
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Author : Bill Streever
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 29,53 MB
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 0316410586
A thrilling exploration of the science and history of wind from the bestselling author of Cold. Scientist and bestselling nature writer Bill Streever goes to any extreme to explore wind -- the winds that built empires, the storms that wreck them -- by traveling right through it. Narrating from a fifty-year-old sailboat, Streever leads readers through the world's first forecasts, Chaos Theory, and a future affected by climate change. Along the way, he shares stories of wind-riding spiders, wind-sculpted landscapes, wind-generated power, wind-tossed airplanes, and the uncomfortable interactions between wind and wars, drawing from natural science, history, business, travel, as well as from his own travels. And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind is an effortless personal narrative featuring the keen observations, scientific rigor, and whimsy that readers love. You'll never see a breeze in the same light again.
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Page : 1248 pages
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Release : 1883
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