Meteorological Observations In The Arctic Seas: By Francis Leopold Mcclintock Made On Board The Arctic Searching Yacht "for" In Baffin Bay And Prince Regent's Inlet, In 1857, 1858, And 1859. Reduced And Discussed, At The Expense Of The Smithsonian
Meteorological Observations In The Arctic Seas: By Francis Leopold Mcclintock Made On Board The Arctic Searching Yacht "for" In Baffin Bay And Prince Regent's Inlet, In 1857, 1858, And 1859. Reduced And Discussed, At The Expense Of The Smithsonian
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ...velocity with which each of the eight principal winds passes over the place of observation in each month, season, and whole year, is found by dividing the sum of the velocity-numbers of each wind by the number of entries in the period; thus, for the month of September, 1857, we have--The following table shows the mean ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ...velocity with which each of the eight principal winds passes over the place of observation in each month, season, and whole year, is found by dividing the sum of the velocity-numbers of each wind by the number of entries in the period; thus, for the month of September, 1857, we have--The following table shows the mean velocity of the winds, expressed in miles per hour, for each month of observation: --In the first year, while in Baffin Bay, the velocity of the wind was greatest in the months of February and March, and least in the months of June and July; in the second year, at Port Kennedy, it was greatest in October and November, and least in March and April. In Baffin Bay, during 1857, '58, the N. W. and N. winds blew with the greatest strength, and the S. W. and N. E. with the least; whereas, in the following year, at Port Kennedy, it was the W. and N. W. wind which blew strongest, and the N. and S. E. which blew with the least force. The mean velocity of each of the eight winds is shown in the annexed diagram, which contains also, for comparison, the velocity of the winds as observed at Van Rensselaer Harbor. The velocity of the wind being only estimated at each place, the apparently small velocities at Van Rensselaer Harbor may, in a measure, be due to a different scale of estimating, although the great number of calms seems to point to their reality. We have next to consider the relative frequency of each wind; for this purpose it is only necessary to refer the number of entries, n, of each wind, as used in the preceding computation for the velocity, to an equal number of hours of observation for each month. This has been done by simple proportion, and the num bers were all referred to twelve observations a day; thus, the numbers of entries, for all m...
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