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Paper, 'On the relations of the diurnal barometric maxima to certain critical conditions of temperature, cloud, and rainfall' by Henry Francis Blanford

Reference number: PP/12/30

Date: 1888

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Blanford writes: 'It is not my purpose in this paper to discuss the general problem of the diurnal barometric variation. It is certainly a very complex phenomenon, and one of which no satisfactory analysis has yet been made. The atmospheric stress (whatever be its nature) that originates the oscillation, is followed by movements which alter both the vertical and horizontal distribution of the gravitating mass, and the striking differences that characterise the diurnal curve of pressure on mountain peaks, plains, and valleys, and on the ocean as compared with the land, are doubtless due in a large measure to these resulting redistributions of the mass.'

Annotations in pencil and ink. Includes one page of charts of the diurnal variation of cloud and rainfall.

Subject: Meteorology

Received 30 March 1888. Read 3 May 1888.

A version of this paper was published in volume 44 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the relations of the diurnal barometric maxima to certain critical conditions of temperature, cloud, and rainfall'.

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PP/12/30
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1888
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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Henry Francis Blanford, Paper, 'On the relations of the diurnal barometric maxima to certain critical conditions of temperature, cloud, and rainfall' by Henry Francis Blanford, 1888, PP/12/30, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_12_30/paper-on-the-relations-of-the-diurnal-barometric-maxima-to-certain-critical-conditions-of-temperature-cloud-and-rainfall-by-henry-francis-blanford, accessed on 15 October 2024

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