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DR. H. VON PICKER contributes to the Sitzungsbcrlchte d. K. Akad. der Wiss., of Vienna (vol. cxx., part vi., June, 1911), a comprehensive discussion of “heat-waves” travelling across northern Europe and Asia during the years 1898–1902. He deals with eleven cases in which the mean daily temperature increased by at least 10° C. in twenty-four hours, and the course of the change could be traced over a large area. The majority of the “heat-waves” occurred in winter, and three of these and the single summer-“wave” are discussed in detail. The mean values for the eleven cases are treated very fully, the synchronous conditions of wind, pressure, change of pressure, humidity, and cloud each receiving as full a consideration as the available data permitted.
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GOLD, E. Heat-Waves in Asia: Sunshine at Trieste . Nature 89, 151 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089151a0
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