Gilbert Weather Bureau (Meteorology) For Boys

About this eBook

Author

Gilbert, A. C. (Alfred Carlton), 1884-1961

Title

Gilbert Weather Bureau (Meteorology) for Boys

Original Publication

United States: The A. C. Gilbert Company,1920.

Credits

Richard Tonsing, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

QC: Science: Physics

Subject

Meteorology -- Problems, exercises, etc.

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 67391

Release Date

February 13, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.GILBERT WEATHER BUREAU (METEOROLOGY) FOR BOYS
2. 2.WEATHER INDICATIONS A Study of the Weather — THE AIR — EXPERIMENT NO. 1 — THE OCEAN OF AIR — HOW TO PROVE BY EXPERIMENT THAT AIR HAS WEIGHT — EXPERIMENT NO. 2 — CONCLUSION — EXPERIMENT NO. 3 — EXPERIMENT NO. 4 — EXPERIMENT NO. 5 — EXPERIMENT NO. 6 — WHAT HAPPENS — EXPERIMENT NO. 7 — EXPERIMENT NO. 8 — EXPERIMENT NO. 9 — WHAT IS THE WEATHER? — THE EFFECT OF THE SUN — HUMIDITY — FOGS — HAIL — SNOW — DEW — FROST — THUNDER AND LIGHTNING — TORNADOES — RAINFALL — WHY WE GET SUCH HEAVY RAINFALLS SOMETIMES AROUND MOUNTAINS — WINDS — KINDS OF WINDS — VELOCITY OF WIND — THE FORCE OF THE WINDS — DAY SIGNALS — NIGHT SIGNALS — NAME OF WINDS — CLOUDS — ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES — LOW PRESSURE — AREAS OF HIGH PRESSURE — WHY AIR RISES — WHAT IS A CYCLONIC STORM? — WHICH WAY DOES THE WIND BLOW AFTER A STORM? — MOISTURE — EXPERIMENT NO. 10 — EXPERIMENT NO. 11 — HOW CAN WE USE THESE FACTS? — APPEARANCES — WHAT THE CLOUDS INDICATE — SUNSET AS AN INDICATION — WHAT THE SKY INDICATES — WHAT FOG AND DEW INDICATE — INDICATIONS FROM CIRRUS CLOUDS — THE MOON — THE RAINBOW — BIRDS AND STORMS
3. 3.DEFINITE CONCLUSIONS Forecasting Weather by Means of Instruments — THE WEATHER VANE — THE ANEMOMETER. Fig. 36 — THE STANDARD ELECTRICAL SUNSHINE RECORDER AND THE GILBERT SUNSHINE RECORDER — THE BAROMETER — THE MERCURIAL BAROMETER (Fig. 41 ) — THE ANEROID BAROMETER (Fig. 42 ). — INDICATIONS FROM THE BAROMETER — GENERAL BAROMETER INDICATIONS — THERMOMETERS — LOCATION OF THERMOMETERS — MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM THERMOMETERS — WHEN MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE IS REACHED — WHEN THE MINIMUM TEMPERATURE IS REACHED — THE THERMOMETER FOR HUMIDITY IN THE AIR — ABSOLUTE HUMIDITY — RELATIVE HUMIDITY — DEW POINT — HOW HYGROMETERS ARE MADE — THE GILBERT RAIN GAUGE (Fig. 50 ). — THERMOMETER SCALES — HOW TO CHANGE ONE SCALE INTO ANOTHER — WEATHER BUREAU STATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES AND WEATHER BUREAU MAPS — HOW THE STATE OF THE WEATHER IS INDICATED — WHAT THE WORDS “HIGH” OR “LOW” MEAN ON THE MAP — WHAT ISOTHERMS INDICATE — TRACKS OF STORMS IN THE UNITED STATES — THE MODE OF TRAVEL OF THE “HIGHS”
4. 4.HISTORICAL FACTS — THERMOMETERS — THERMOMETER RECORDS — REGIONS OF LEAST RELATIVE HUMIDITY — BAROMETERS — BAROMETER RECORDS — HAIL — RAINFALL — CLOUDBURSTS — WIND VELOCITY — BLIZZARDS — TORNADOES — ROTARY MOTIONS OF STORMS — THE FIRST UNITED STATES WEATHER BUREAU

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