 | 1822 - 502 pages
...evaporating-gauge tally with those of the rain-gauge, when the former, so far from representing the circumstances of those bodies which yield the great body of vapour...particulars with a dozen puddles in the course of the year. The results of the hygrometer accommodate themselves more easily to the evervarying circumstances,... | |
 | John Frederic Daniell - Meteorology - 1823 - 528 pages
...estimate of the state of atmospheric saturation, and the point of deposition. The notion that they afford the absolute measure of the quantity of water...applied above, accommodate themselves more easily to the ever- varying conditions of the problem ; and from these we can infer the effect of each combination... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - Meteorology - 1867 - 460 pages
...but if, as Daniell says, " the evaporating gauge, so far from representing the circumstance of these bodies which yield the great body of vapour on the...particulars, with a dozen puddles in the course of a year," — we do not see why the same line of argument should not, in a measure, equally apply to... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - Meteorology - 1867 - 462 pages
...but if, as Daniell says, " the evaporating gauge, so far from representing the circumstance of these bodies which yield the great body of vapour on the...earth's surface, probably does not correspond, in all L essential particulars, with a dozen puddles in the course of a year," — we do not see why the same... | |
 | Alexander Ramsay - Climatic changes - 1884 - 538 pages
...from representing the circumstances of those bodies which yield (Page 167) the great body of water on the earth's surface, probably does not correspond...particulars with a dozen puddles in the course of the year. The results of the hygrometer accommodate themselves more easily to the ever varying conditions of... | |
 | 1884 - 472 pages
...from representing the circumstances of those bodies which yield (Page 167) the great body of water on the earth's surface, probably does not correspond...particulars with a dozen puddles in the course of the year. The results of the hygrometer accommodate themselves more easily to the ever varying conditions of... | |
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They vary on the land and on the water ; they vary in sun-shine and in the shade ; they vary as land is more or less clothed with vegetation, or as water is more or less deep. The evaporating gauge, so far from representing the circumstance of... 