The law of storms considered practicallyWilson, 1876 - 108 من الصفحات |
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Atlantic atmosphere AUSTRALIA barometer Bay of Bengal bearing blowing Book of Sailing BRISTOL CHANNELS calm Cape centre Channel Chart CHINA SEA circle circular theory coloured Compass Counting-house course curve cyclone dangerous semicircle distance ditto Eastern Passages eastward ENGLISH CHANNEL enlarged Plans Entrance equator equatorial gale Gulf Gulf of Mexico Harbour heave-to hour hurricane Indian Ocean Islands large scale Latitude Law of Storms Longitude low pressure Marine Mauritius MEDITERRANEAN SEA meteorological miles monsoon motion Mounted on Cloth NAUTICAL navigable semicircle North northern hemisphere Northward observations PIDDINGTON PILOT Port Louis progressive quadrant recurving REDFIELD regions Réunion River River Humber rollers and varnished rotation rotatory round rules S.E. wind Sailing Directions season Sextant ship show the navigation side South Southward storm-path Strait TABLES track trade-wind tropical velocity vessels vortex weather West Coast westerly whirlwind Wind veers Yachts
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الصفحة 24 - NE ; during the progression the whirlwind, revolving in a direction opposite to that in which the hands of a watch move, expands very considerably.
الصفحة 9 - Memoirs comprising the navigation to and from China, by the China Sea and through the various Straits and Channels in the Indian Archipelago; also the navigation of Bombay Harbour. London, 1805.
الصفحة 36 - I have never been able to conceive that the wind in violent storms moves only in circles. On the contrary, a vortical movement, approaching to that which may be seen in all lesser vortices, aerial or aqueous, appears to be an essential element of their violent and long-continued action, of their increased energy towards the centre or axis, and of the accompanying rain.
الصفحة 37 - Goodfellow's Merchants' and Shipmasters' Ready Calculator. Exhibiting at one View the solid contents of all kinds of Packages and Casks. By J. GOODFELLOW. Price 7s.
الصفحة 85 - Fig. 27) the wind circles round the central area of lowest pressure in a "direction against the sun, or contrary to that of the motion of the hands of a watch. In the southern hemisphere, {see Fig.
الصفحة 30 - ... farther ascent as it did in ascending below the base of the cloud now forming ; the current of air, however, will continue to ascend and grow colder about half as much as it would do if it had no...
الصفحة 82 - There are two regions of high pressure — the one north and the other south of the equator — passing completely round the globe as broad belts of high pressure. They enclose between them the low pressure of the tropics, through the centre of which runs a narrower belt of still lower pressure, towards which the trade-winds blow.
الصفحة 28 - PART I. — The East Indies, and Interjacent Ports of Africa and South America. Revised, Extended, and Illustrated with Charts of Winds, Currents, Passages, Variation, and Tides. By COMMANDER ALFRED DUNDAS TAYLOR, FRGS, Superintendent of Marine Surveys to the Government of India.
الصفحة 50 - But, in the SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, from an easterly wind, the centre of the storm bears north ; from a southerly wind the centre bears east ; from a westerly wind, south ; and from a northerly wind, west. (See Fig. 17.) It is characteristic of the hurricanes of both hemispheres that westerly winds are found on their equatorial side, and easterly winds on their polar side, throughout their entire course.
الصفحة 16 - There is reason to believe, that the great circuits of wind, of which the trade winds form an integral part, are nearly uniform in all the great oceanic basins, and that the course of these circuits, and of the stormy...