Full text: A meteorological treatise on the circulation and radiation in the atmospheres of the earth and of the sun

PLANETARY CIRCULATION AND RADIATION 
115 
TABLE 27 
The Mean Observed Temperatures in the Atmosphere from Balloon 
Ascensions Arranged in the Order of Latitude 
Lati 
tude 
Num 
ber 
Russia 
Eng 
land 
Ger 
many 
France 
St. 
Louis 
Atlantic Ocean Tropics 
Viet. 
Nyanza 
56° 
143 
53° 
200 
51° 
380 
49° 
581 
o> 53 
CO N 
35° 
12 
25° 
6 
15° 
8 
5° 
6 
0° 
12 
19000 
18000 
190 5 
17000 
197 1 
16000 
202 6 
15000 
213 8 
206 8 
14000 
219.1 
218.6 
218.9 
212.2 
211.2 
210.7 
210.0 
214.1 
210.8 
13000 
219.3 
218.5 
218.6 
214.2 
214.6 
212.6 
216.2 
218.1 
216.0 
12000 
218.3 
219.6 
218.8 
217.8 
216.7 
219.4 
217.4 
223.6 
224.7 
222.6 
11000 
217.7 
219.4 
220.2 
219.0 
221.0 
225.8 
224.7 
231.8 
231.8 
231.4 
10000 
218.9 
223.1 
223.4 
223.7 
226.2 
233.7 
233.2 
240.2 
239.3 
238.9 
9000 
224.3 
228.4 
228.6 
229.5 
232.9 
242.0 
241.8 
248.2 
247.2 
246.1 
8000 
231.4 
235.2 
235.0 
236.8 
239.8 
250.0 
249.6 
255.5 
254.6 
250.7 
7000 
239.1 
241.8 
242.2 
244.0 
248.5 
257.6 
256.6 
261.8 
261.4 
258.0 
6000 
246.4 
248.8 
249.3 
251.1 
256.1 
264.4 
263.0 
267.6 
267.3 
263.4 
5000 
253.1 
255.4 
256.1 
257.6 
262.7 
270.5 
268.8 
272.8 
272.1 
269.2 
4000 
259.3 
261.7 
262.3 
263.6 
268.6 
275.8 
274.6 
277.9 
277.2 
274.7 
3000 
265.3 
268.8 
268.0 
269.0 
273.5 
280.9 
279.3 
282.8 
282.0 
280.8 
2000 
269.9 
272.5 
273.1 
273.7 
277.8 
285.4 
283.9 
287.5 
286.7 
288.4 
1000 
274.3 
2,77.1 
277.6 
278.3 
281.1 
290.9 
288.7 
292.2 
292.3 
296.2 
000 
277.1 
281.3 
282.9 
282.5 
285.9 
298.9 
296.2 
298.4 
300.8 
as given in Table 29 for all elevations, the wind is eastward, 
increasing from the surface to a maximum on the 9,000-10,000- 
meter level, where it suddenly falls in velocity, and prevails 
eastward or variable throughout the isothermal region. These 
velocity conditions conform to Bigelow’s observations at Wash 
ington, D. C., 1896-97, International Cloud Report, Charts 
11, 14, and Monthly Weather Review, April, May, June, 1904. 
The reports of the International Committee show that for the 
hemisphere at large, these westward and eastward circulations 
tend to concentrate about “centers of action,” wherein the 
continuity of the high-pressure belt around the globe in longitude 
is broken up into sections, one over the Atlantic Ocean in each 
hemisphere, and another over the Pacific Ocean in each hemi 
sphere. This subdivision is due to the mutual influence of
	        
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