Practical Exercises in Elementary MeteorologyWard, Robert DeCourcy
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Practical Exercises in Elementary Meteorology
Ward, Robert DeCourcy
Meteorology
Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, there is a similar contrast between two
different winds. The _pampero_ is similar in many respects to our cold
wave. It is a dry, cool, and refreshing wind, blowing over the vast level
stretches of the Argentine pampas from the southwest. The _norte_ is a
warm, damp, depressing northerly wind corresponding to our sirocco.
CHAPTER XIV.
CORRELATION OF CYCLONES AND ANTICYCLONES AND THEIR
TEMPERATURES.
_A._ =Cyclones.=——It follows from the two preceding exercises that some
fairly definite distribution of temperature, depending upon the wind
direction, should exist around areas of low and high pressure. Try to
predict, on the basis of the results obtained in Chapters XII and XIII,
what this relation of temperatures and cyclones and anticyclones is. Then
work out the relation independently of your prediction, by studying actual
cases obtained from the weather maps, as follows:——
[Illustration: FIG. 50.]
Prepare a sheet of tracing paper as shown in Fig. 50. The diameter of the
circle should be sufficiently large to include within the circle the
average area covered by a cyclone on the weather maps. Place the tracing
paper, properly divided in accordance with the figure, over a well-defined
area of low pressure on a weather map, centering and orienting it
carefully. Take the temperature at the station which lies nearest the
center of the figure as the standard. Notice the temperatures at all the
other stations which fall within the limits of the circle, and mark down
at the proper places on the tracing paper, the + or - departures of these
local temperatures from the standard temperature. Thus, if the standard is
37°, and a station has a temperature of 46°, enter +9° at the proper place
on your tracing paper. Again, if a certain station has 24°, enter -13° at
the proper place on the paper. Continue this process until your paper has
all of its divisions well filled. It is best to select all the maps used
in this investigation from the same month, for in that case the data are
more comparable than if different months are taken. When a sufficient
number of examples has been obtained, find the average departure (+ or -)
of the temperatures in each division of the tracing from the central
standard temperature. Express these averages graphically by means of a
_wind rose_, as in the last exercise.
=Another Method.=——The above correlation may be investigated by means of
another method, as follows:——
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