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Manual of Meteorology Part iv: The Relation of the Wind to the Distribution of Barometric Pressure

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THE other parts of this manual are not yet published, but Part iv. deals with the question of the extent to which the motion of the lower strata of the atmosphere can be inferred from the ordinary working chart prepared on receipt of the telegraphic information of the surface conditions by a meteorological office, a question of great importance to the aircraft service.

Manual of Meteorology. Part iv.: The Relation of the Wind to the Distribution of Barometric Pressure.

By Sir Napier Shaw. Pp. xvi + 166 + 3 plates. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1919.) Price 12s. 6d. net.

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DINES, W. Manual of Meteorology Part iv: The Relation of the Wind to the Distribution of Barometric Pressure . Nature 104, 525–526 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/104525a0

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