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RECENT communications to your paper have given the motion of the upper clouds from the eastward in the equatorial regions of the Atlantic. My observations (the result of having passed through these regions sixteen times in sailing-ships) give the motion of the upper clouds from the westward: and the motion of the intermediate cloud layers, consisting of the high low-level stratiform clouds (cirro-cumulus and such like), from a point somewhat to the north of east on the north side of the equator. Intermediate clouds are rare in the equatorial regions south of the Line. The high low-level clouds are constantly being confounded with the true high clouds.
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WILSON-BARKER, D. Upper Cloud Movements in the Equatorial Regions of the Atlantic. Nature 36, 197 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036197a0
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