18 EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



METEOROLOGY CLIMATOLOGY. 



Monthly Weather Review ( Mn. U'calhn- Rrr., 31 {1903), Nos. 1 , jyp. l-5£, fifj>i. 

 21, <-li((rh Jl: J, j>p. oJ-lOS, Jigs. 2S, charlK 11; 3, pp. lOO-KU, jUj.^. IS, charts 10).— 

 In addition to the nsual reports on forecast, warningn, weather and crop condi- 

 tions, nu'teorolo<>;icai ta])leH and chartn for the nionth.s of January, February, and 

 Marcli, litOo, recent i>ai)ers ])earin<,' on nifteor()lo<;y, etc., thene nuiiilters contain the 

 following articles and notes: 



No. 1. — Special contributions on Synchronous Cluuijies in the Solaraiid Terrestrial 

 Atmospheres (ilhis.), 1)y F. 11. Bigelow; High Wind.s in Mountain Valleys, l)y 

 A. 1). Elmer; The Southern Limit of a Northwest Gale, by H. 11. Ten Rroeck; 

 Inductive Studies in Weather Influence, by F. (!. Dexter; Elasticity at Low Tem- 

 peratures (illus. ), by J. R. Benton; Violent Wind in South Dakota, by S. W. (denn; 

 The Vertical Component of the Movement of Clouds Measured l^y the Nephoscojje, 

 by L. Besson; Local Peculiarities of Snowfall, by V.. L. Mosely; and The Structure 

 of Cyclones and Anticyclones on the .3,.500-foot and 10,000-foot Planes for the I'nited 

 States (illus.), by F. H. Bigelow; and notes on the meteorological reporter to the 

 Government of India, Ijombarding against hail, horizontal curvilinear movement of 

 clouds, the Scottish Antarctic Expedition, and the climates of geological ages. 



No. 2. — Special contributions on The Temperature and Rainfall De])artures at 

 Hawaii, as Duplicated in New England Sixty Days Later, by A. D. Elmer; Some 

 Higli Wind Records on the Pacific Coast (illus. ) , by A. G. McAdie and W. W. Thomas; 

 Note on the Anemometer Exposure at Point Reyes Light, Cal., by C. F. 3larvin; 

 Composite and Other Arrangements of Weather Types (illus.), by H. W. Richard- 

 son; ^leteorology in the National Agricultural Institute of France, by Miss R. A. 

 Edwards; and The Mechanism of Countercurrents of Different Temperatures in 

 Cyclones and Anticyclones (illus.), by F. H. Bigelow; and notes on .lames Glaisher, 

 snow from a clear sky, sunshine records at Hamburg, Germany, aerial research in 

 Denmark, courses of instruction in meteorology, Hann's climatologv in English, and 

 origin of the word "barometer." 



No. ?>. — Special contributions on Climatology of the Isthmus of Panama (illus.), 

 by II. L. Abl)ot; Mean Barometric Pressure at Sea Level on the American Isthnms, by 

 H. L. A1)bot; Notes on a Feeble Eartliquake Recorded at Washington, D. C. (illus.), 

 byC. F. Marvin; The Districts of the Dominion of Canada (illus.), by R. F. Stu|)art; 

 The Semidiurnal Tides in the Northern Part of the Indian Ocean (illus.), by R. A. 

 Harris; The Endowment of Research in Meteorology, by T. C. Chamberlin; and 

 INIarch Winds, l)y B. C. Webber; and notes on second Russian congress on clima- 

 tology, weather cycles and farmers' almanacs, Chavanne's Temperature and Rainfall 

 in Argentina, the weather in Venezuela, the Cuban meteorological service, student 

 assistants in the United States Weather Bureau, an arctic magnetical and meteoro- 

 logi("il .station, William Kaucher, the first use of the word "barometer," and notes 

 on the barometric i)ressure at Colon and Alliajuela. 



Report on the barometry of the United States, Canada, and the West 

 Indies, F. H. Bigelow ( V. S. Depl. Agr., Weather Burean lipt. 1900-1901, II, Cliaptern 

 1, 2, G, S, pp. 1-117, 423-624, 640-771).— Thiti report "contains a revision of the 

 meteorological data which have become available since the opening of the Govern- 

 ment service in 1871, in order to prepare it on inodern scientific principles for the 

 forecasting work of the Bureau. It contains the material necessary for constructing 

 daily weather maps on three planes, the sea level, the 3,500-ft. jilane, and the 

 10,000-ft. plane; also normal values of the pressures, temperatures, and vapor pres- 

 sures at the stations and on these 'i planes." Of the 4 methods which have 

 previously been used in reduction of )>arometric data the author adopted that of 

 Ferrid, l)ut "addeil another for local abnormality, computed tlie effect of the vapor 

 pressure separately from that of the free air, and discussed thoroughly the tempera- 



