Il8 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 79 



FALKLAND ISLANDS 



CAPE PEMBROKE 



Lat. 51° 41' S. Long. 57° 42' W. 

 Pressure. 



Aitflioritics: 1895 to 1915. London, Air Ministry, Meteorologi- 

 cal Office, Geophysical Memoirs, No. 15. The Cli- 

 mate and Weather of the Falkland Islands and 

 South Georgia, by C. E. P. Brooks, London, 1920. 



1916 to 1920. MS. data compiled by the Marine Division, 

 Meteorological Office, London. The meteorologi- 

 cal observations are taken by the Lighthouse 

 Keeper and are entered in logs which are filed in 

 the Marine Division. 

 Site: The height of the barometer above Mean Sea Level was : 



1895 to 1899, July 3 80 ft. 



1899 July 4 to 1906 March 75 ft. 



1906 April to 1908 July 50 ft. 



1908 August to 1920 70 ft. 



All values have been reduced to Mean Sea Level by the 

 addition of the following corrections : 



1895 to 1899 July 3 +3-0 mb. 



1899 J"ly 4 to 190^ March 4-2.8 mb. 



1906 April to 1908 July -|- 1.8 mb. 



1908 August to 1920 +2.5 mb. 



litstntiiiriifs: 1895 to 1914. Barometer no. 525, with an index 

 error correction of —.001 in. at 29.5 ins. and 

 -l-.ooi in. at 30.0 ins. 



191 5 to 1916, August 12. Marine Barometer no. 75 with an 



index error correction of +.004 in. 



191 6 August 13 to 1920. Station Barometer no. 640 with an 



index error correction of +.002 in. 

 flours of Observation: From 1895 to 1907 May and from 1908 

 August to 1920, the observations were taken at 

 o'\ 4''. 8'\ 12''. i6'\ and 2o'\ 

 Incomplete observations were taken from 1907 June to 1908 

 June, at 8'', i6'\ and 2o'\ and these values were 

 corrected to the mean of the six observations a 

 day by applying the following corrections : 



Jan. Fell, Mar. Apr. May .luiu' .July Aug. Sept. Oct. Ntiv. Dec. 



ml). +0.1 —0.1 —0.1 



No observations were available for 1908 July. 



