CO129-452 - Others & Individuals - 1918 — Page 331

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British inches of angrcury, fl the same (taki that the observations of both thermometers from Tabla πck Blanfords Tables for the and corresponding dewpoints are made Jaacluction of Sifateorological Obstructions out of doors, and not on the same particles India") as tanporature II when E-thed. If att uniformly distributed like the oscyam

E-E!=0. bs und inskad of 1130 whim in not wil bulb is covered by ice, but the change and nitrogen, but occurs in transparano of no consequence. The resulting ralus of loudling forms, drier and dampar air are, then drained for the Patituds of Calcul ltimating.

1240.2 may

and Hony now required that thris Fablis

calculated: mi fired to show be, the rapour Pansion, the second to show the relative huml -ity in percentage of saturation, and is this to show ma drwpoint, which is found corr -bonding to me rabour' Finsion in Blanford Tabla IT

"The formula darived above from m latest series of observations pratands to far higher accurday tham the tables in Curing use and ma rasuld at which I hawk arrival though novel, is not quite unexpected for has bam suppacked for some years that

a wrong yi id matqurologists were using a wrong constan in the hygrometric formula. Only in ord to Convry a general idea of the observations not at all because it is otherwise useful the following table showing values of the constant obtained for Every 25° degrass of reading of the wel ball thermometer dr

married 250 for every 23° of difference between the di

250 and wit bulb thermometers, baddad.

was The clifferences between the figures shown cup dur to accidental errors, which are harmill but large, and that is owing to the fact

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