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The Temperature of the Air at Various Levels

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IN a treatise recently published at Prague1, the author, Mr. Schlemüller, proposes to establish a formula, by which the temperature of the atmosphere at any level above the surface of the earth could be calculated, a similar calculation giving also the height of the atmosphere.

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  1. This paper was also published in the Phil. Mag., 4th series, vol. xiv. p. 108.

  2. Phil. Mag., 4th series, vol. xix. p. 22.

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HAJNI, L. The Temperature of the Air at Various Levels. Nature 21, 176–177 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/021176a0

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