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. 1891 Excerpt: ...which has many natural peculiarities to distinguish it from the trend below Cape Mendocino. The column of differences shows that while this theory of the humid constitution of the southwest wind may account for a certain portion of the rainfall, there yet remains another portion for which other causes must be sought. ...
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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. 1891 Excerpt: ...which has many natural peculiarities to distinguish it from the trend below Cape Mendocino. The column of differences shows that while this theory of the humid constitution of the southwest wind may account for a certain portion of the rainfall, there yet remains another portion for which other causes must be sought. The differences themselves show some relation to one another and prove the increment to be progressive with increased northing in latitude. Examine the functions of these differences and this appears distinctly. The difference of the differences Westport-Columbia Bar is 9.33, and the difference of the differences Columbia Bar-Tatoosh is 19.76. The northern function is twice the southern. It becomes a matter of more than mere curiosity to discover what humid influence has such an increment northerly. Here is painfully felt the lack of data, for the oceanography of the Paciiio has yet to be written, and even the materials are scanty. But one thing is certainly known, because universally observed, and that is, that within the zone of the Passage Winds across the great ocean the wind hauls westerly in close ratio to the latitude. The wind which moves the rain upon the northern Pacific coast is then not rigidly a southwest wind. It blows from nearer west, traverses more water, absorbs more moisture, and precipitates more rain, and this proves a factor of progressive increment to the north and oapable of producing an influence of perturbation such as has been beautifully revealed in the functions of the differences in this inquiry. Evaporation.--This element introduces a most important factor in the examination of the availability of water precipitated as rain or snow, and at the outset it may be said that this influence attains a great intensity wit...
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