Practical Exercises in Elementary MeteorologyWard, Robert DeCourcy
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Practical Exercises in Elementary Meteorology
Ward, Robert DeCourcy
Meteorology
It is a good plan to let different scholars work out the problems for
different months. The results reached in each case should be discussed in
the class, and thus each member may have the double advantage of working
out his own problem, and of profiting by the work done by his fellows.
Throughout these exercises care should be taken to have weather maps of
all months studied. The exercise on the correlation of the velocity of the
wind with the pressure cannot be undertaken unless the work on
temperature and pressure gradients (Chapters V and VII) has been
completed.
CHAPTERS XX-XXV.
It is not expected that any one scholar can accomplish all that is here
outlined. Examples may be selected from the list, as opportunity offers,
so that each scholar shall become familiar with several problems.
Few of the problems suggested call for continuous routine observation at
fixed hours. They require, on the other hand, an intelligent examination
of ordinary weather phenomena, with special reference to discovering their
explanation. In most of the problems a small number of observations will
suffice. Under the supervision of the teacher, different problems may be
assigned to the several members of a class; or several scholars may work
on different parts of the same problem, exchanging records in order to
save time. All the scholars should have a general knowledge of the results
which have been obtained from the observations made by the other members
of their class. The teacher will use his discretion in arranging the order
of the problems, and in selecting those that are best suited to the season
in which the work is done, to the locality in which the school is
situated, and to the facilities and apparatus at command. Although the
variety of accessible problems is less in city schools than in country
schools, much may be done in the city as well as in the country.
The opportunities for carrying out such observational work vary so much in
different schools that it is impossible to give specific instructions,
which shall be available in all cases. Some general suggestions are
therefore given, which the teacher may supplement by more detailed
instructions framed to fit the particular circumstances of each case.
A review of the headings of the different problems shows that a very
general correlation exists among them, whereby the subjects of every
heading are associated with those of nearly every other. In other words,
every weather element is treated as a function of several other elements.
It follows from this that the variety of work here outlined is more
apparent than real, and that many problems which appear from their wording
to be entirely new are in large part rearrangements of problems previously
encountered.
APPENDIX B.
THE EQUIPMENT OF A METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY.
_A._ INSTRUMENTS.
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