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The Winter Storms of Northern India

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THE physical constitution and history of the storms of India and Indian Seas is a subject which, almost from his first association with the Indian Meteorological Department, Mr. Eliot has made peculiarly his own. Besides nine elaborate, and, as far as possible, exhaustive, memoirs and reports on the history of particular storms, two on the tracks and periodicity of the cyclones of the Bay of Bengal during the ten years 1877-1886, and an admirable hand-book, in which he has summarized, for the guidance of seamen, the characteristic features and behaviour of these storms, his annual reports on the meteorology of India have always been replete with the results of his studies of the storms of the current year; and to him is mainly due that development which has been effected in the system of storm warnings for the coasts of India in recent years, and has rendered it one of the most efficient and comprehensive organizations for that purpose now in operation in any part of the world.

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  1. Krall, op. cit., p. 45. See also Brugsch, "Aeg. Zeit," 1881, p. 1, seqq.

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BLANFORD, H. The Winter Storms of Northern India. Nature 45, 490–493 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/045490a0

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