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AN article on atmospheric tides, by Mr. W. Krebs, who is a frequent contributor to the scientific literature of Germany, appears in Das Weltall, a Berlin journal of astronomy, of December, 1903. The author points out that the astronomer Mädler demonstrated in 1837 from the Berlin barometer observations the existence of an oscillation of air pressure in the course of a lunar day. The mean range exhibited a minimum pressure in the afternoon and a maximum in the forenoon of that period. This occurrence, which was found by, Mädler for the years 1820–1835, was confirmed by Prof. Börnstein with reference to the years 1884—1888, and was also shown to obtain at other German stations. But neither of these physicists ventured to affirm the existence of a tidal movement of the atmosphere in the oscillation which they had discovered.
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Atmospheric Tides . Nature 69, 597 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069597a0
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