Monthly weather review. Monthly weather review, v. 48, no. 5; May, 1920.
Publication Title:
Monthly weather review. Monthly weather review, v. 48, no. 5; May, 1920.
Display Title:
Monthly weather review. Monthly weather review, v. 48, no. 5; May, 1920.
Corporate Agency Authors:
Weather Bureau and Agriculture Department
Sort Author:
Weather Bureau
Date:
[Aug. 2] 1920
Publish Date ISO Format:
1920-08-02T00:00:00Z
Publication Start:
19200802
Publication End:
19200802
Corporate/Agency Author:
Weather Bureau
Publication month:
5
Publication year:
1920
Description:
cover-title, p. 251-310, il. 1 pl. map, 14 p. of pl. and maps, 4°
Notes:
* For Sale by Superintendent of Documents. Paper, 25c. single copy, $2.50 a yr.; foreign subscription. $3.50.
Notes:
NOTE.—The Monthly weather review contains (1) meteorological contributions, and bibliography including seismology, (2) an interpretative summary and charts of the weather of the month in the United States, and on adjacent oceans, and (3) climatological and seismological tables dealing with the weather and earthquakes of the month. The contributions are principally as follows: (a) results of observational or research work in meteorology carried on in the United States or other parts of the world, (b) abstracts or reviews of important meteorological papers and books, and (c) notes.
SPECIAL ARTICLES.—Preliminary steps in making of free-air pressure and wind charts; by C. LeRoy Meisinger.—Detection of storms and their travel by radio equipment; by C. N. Keyser.—Measurement of temperature, with some remarks on other physical measurements, and applications to meteorology; by Edgar W. Woolard.—Shading instrument shelters; by S. D. Flora.—Standard atmosphere, discussion; [by W. R. Gregg].—Most intense rainfall on record; by Benjamin C. Kadel.—Sunshine and cloudiness in Canal Zone; by H. G. Cornthwaite.—Humidity and hot weather; by H. G. Corn-thwaite.—Importance of air control in hospitals [and other public buildings, by Ellsworth Huntington: abstracted by C. L. M.].—Agricultural meteorology [with bibliography]; by J. Warren Smith.—Montana rainfall, by Edmund Burke and Reuben M. Pinckney; excerpts and abstract [by H. L.].—Ballistic wind, by I. R. Tannehill; author's abstract.
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* For Sale by Superintendent of Documents. Paper, 25c. single copy, $2.50 a yr.; foreign subscription. $3.50.