Barometric Seesaws

Abstract

PROF. HOFRATH JULIUS HANN has recently contributed an important paper to the Vienna Academy, an abstract of which is printed in the Akademischen Anzeiger, No. i, of the Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissen-schaften in Wien. This paper is entitled “Die Anomalien der Witterung auf Island in dem Leitraume 1851 bis 1900 und deren Beziehungen zu den gleichzeitigen Witterungs-anomalien in Nordwest Europa.” In this Prof. Hann discusses the relationship between the monthly and yearly means of the temperature, pressure and rainfall of Stykkisholm, in Iceland, for the longest time available, the temperature variations at Greenwich, Brussels and Vienna, the pressure and rainfall variations at Brussels and the pressure variations at Vienna.