Word: barometricize
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High Water. As hurricanes go, Carol was not unusually violent. Much of her damage, aside from the steeple, toppled trees and tangled wires, was caused by storm tides. A hurricane has several devices for raising the water level. In the "eye of the storm," the center of the spinning doughnut...
The Japanese meteorologist Sakuhei Fujihara observed that two hurricanes never collide, but when they come close enough they attract one another and swerve off their former courses. This is because the high-pressure area between them is exhausted by the sucking effect of the two circular storms. So the barometric...
At predetermined intervals, perhaps three hours apart, the Grasshopper sends out a series of coded radio signals. One of them identifies it to the monitoring station. Others give the temperature, barometric pressure, humidity, etc. in the spot where it is taking observations. The batteries that power the Grasshopper's...
In the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys especially, he found that the rains fell in a strongly marked seven-day cycle. Variations in barometric pressure, humidity, temperature, etc., followed the same weekly schedule. Langmuir does not maintain that his silver iodide went all the way to Ohio. But he thinks that...
By experimenting with monkeys in specially constructed pressure chambers, Dr. Gelfan, an assistant professor of physiology, has learned that at 52,000 feet the barometric pressure of the air is so low that it is about equal to the pressure inside the tiny blood vessels of the lungs. Under such...