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1946; American Meteorological Society; Volume: 27; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1175/1520-0477-27.9.553

1520-0477

Mr Chapman, Mr Frank, Mr Shearer, Mr Barnett, Kenneth Barnett, Ismael Mauricio Duque Escobar,

Another fault is that the author's desire to make his style "simpler and more readable'' has led him into confusion and inaccuracy, as illustrated in the following:The law of decrease of atmospheric pressure with altitude stated only implicitly in the form "one-thirtieth of its previous value for each 900-foot increase in altitude" (p.108) is explicitly contradicted by the linearly decreasing arrows in Fig. 2-12 (p.31) marked " Arrows indicate decreasing air pressure in rising air mass," also by cones of flow in Figs.4-4, 4-6 (pp.51, 53).The expression 11 air can hold water vapor*' (p. 9, 33, and elsewhere contradicts Dalton's law of partial pressures.Adiabatic expansion is omitted from the causes of lapse rate (p.28.).Saturation as defined (p.34) is incompatible with the role of "nucleuses'' (p.58.) History is disregarded in giving the name "sylphon" to the elastic chamber of the aneroid barometer, (p.113) since Vidie and Bourdon have priority, of whom Yidie was awarded a legal judgment and 25,000 fr., for infringement against Bourdon.Hadley not Ferrel is usually regarded as first to explain the observed deflection of the wind as due to the earth's rotation, but Newton himself knew and calculated the deflective effect on a falling body, which differs only in direction.These defects can be corrected in later editions, and the author can then be congratulated for producing a book intelligible to the high school student in maritime meteorology where the great pioneers, Dampier, Maury, Piddington have not been followed by enough workers to keep the knowledge abreast with continental meteorology.It is also to be hoped that the next edition will be equipped with questions and problems.-EricH. Miller.