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AFTER my arrival in China in 1883, I made inquiries, among persons who had kept meteorological registers, concerning the direction from which clouds usually come here, but was told that they came from all directions without any apparent order. But the observations made during January 1884, printed in the Weather Report published on February 11, showed at once clearly that the lower clouds came from the east, and that the directions veered with increasing height, the highest clouds coming from the west, as explained in the text of the Annual Weather Report published on February 17, 1885. This might have been expected in analogy with what obtains in cyclones, as the trade-wind blows into the calm belt as if this were the centre of a depression drawn out to extend round the whole earth near the equator.
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DOBERCK, W. Upper and Lower Wind Currents over the Torrid Zone. Nature 38, 565 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038565a0
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