 | International Correspondence Schools - 1902 - 380 pàgines
...following Jaw governing the rotation of the winds: Around a center of low barometer, thc winds circulate in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch. To the east, then, in advance of a barometric depression, southerly and southeasterly winds... | |
 | Alfred Baker - 1903 - 154 pàgines
...Give reasons. 19. A, B, C are three points on a line, at any intervals apart. Rotate the line about A in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a clock through 30° ; ie, draw a new line through A, making an angle of 30° with the original line, and locate... | |
 | Thomas Ulvan Taylor - 1908 - 334 pàgines
...and if we would observe it for a whole day it would appear to describe a circle about the North Pole in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a clock, ;'. c.. contra-clockwise. On account of the invisibility of the true North Pole this motion can be... | |
 | Albert Moore Reese - 1910 - 980 pàgines
...of Dove, according to which the weather vane at any meteorological station in Europe generally turns in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch when an area of low pressure is passing by the station. In fact by employing the observations... | |
 | Frederick Russell Gorton - 1910 - 536 pàgines
...Tracing the current from the positive pole of the cell, it will be found to flow around the N-pole in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a clock as one faces the pole and in the reverse direction about the S-pole as shown in Fig. 327. The experimental... | |
 | Cleveland Abbe - 1910 - 646 pàgines
...of Dove, according to which the weather vane at any meteorological station in Europe generally turns in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch when an area of low pressure is passing by the station. In fact by employing the observations... | |
 | Napier Shaw - 1911 - 438 pàgines
...especially the right front, while the rear is dry to a marked degree. " The wind blows round the centre in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch which is lying horizontally with its face upwards ; but as the direction is slightly inclined... | |
 | United States. Weather Bureau - 1916 - 478 pàgines
...ANTICTCI/)NE8 (HIGHS). In the cyclones of the Northern Hemisphere the wind blows around the center in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch which is lying horizontally with its face upward. Since the direction of the wind is slightly... | |
 | George Fillmore Swain - 1917 - 88 pàgines
...another point, or that in the Northern Hemisphere the wind in a storm revolves around the storm center in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a clock, he should perceive that these facts, if true, have a reason for them, and he should endeavor to perceive... | |
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... in a direction contrary to the motion of the hands of a watch, with — and be this particularly noted — a constant tendency to turn inwards towards the centre of lowest barometer. 
