Abstract
MR. H. ARCTOWSKI, in a paper published in vol. xxiv. of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, considers the problem of variation of temperature over the whole earth. After a brief statement of the general problem and the methods by which it may be attacked, he explains that he could not deal single-handed with the arrangement and discussion of the actual values even over the whole of the northern hemisphere, and confines himself to the detailed survey of the variations over North America and Europe. He also compares the results with one or two representative equatorial and southern hemisphere stations. From a study of the values at one of these, Arequipa, in Peru, he deduces that the temperature changes are partly of a short period of about fifty-five days, brachypleionian waves; partly of a long period of twenty years or so, macro-pleionian waves; and partly of an intermediate period of between one and two years, pleionian waves.
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G., E. Fluctuations of Temperature in Europe and America . Nature 95, 100 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095100a0
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