8. There are many excellent text-books on meteorology, all of which deal more or less with the movements of the atmosphere and the formation of clouds.
INDEX
Abercromby, [10]
Aitken, [3], [91]
Altitude of clouds, [19], [149]
—— of rain-clouds, [76]
Alto clouds, [59], [159]
Alto-cumulus communis, [161]
—— castellatus, [66], [160]
—— glomeratus, [67], [161]
—— informis, [64], [160]
—— nebulosus, [65], [160]
—— stratiformis, [65], [161]
Alto-strato-cumulus, [70], [160]
Alto-stratus maculosus, [68], [160]
Ascent of vapour, [124]
Atlas, International, [11]
Band cirrus, [41]
Bidwell, Shelford, [92]
Black mirror, [14], [173]
Blue Hill, [20], [138]
Cameras, [140], [171]
Change cirrus, [37]
—— of velocity, [35]
Cirriform top of thunder-cloud, [110]
Cirro-cumulus, [45], [159]
—— nebulosus, [52], [159]
Cirro-filum, [33], [156]
Cirro-macula, [53], [159]
Cirro-nebula, [26], [27], [155]
Cirro-stratus, [45], [157]
—— communis, [47], [158]
Cirro-stratus cumulosus, [48], [158]
—— nebulosus, [45], [158]
—— vittatus, [158]
Cirro-velum, [24]
Cirrus, [21], [155]
—— altitudes, [30], [149]
—— communis, [40], [157]
—— caudatus, [34], [156]
—— excelsus, [31], [156]
—— inconstans, [37], [157]
—— nebulosus, [36], [156]
—— ripples, [51]
—— ventosus, [32], [156]
—— vittatus, [41], [156]
Cloud altitudes, [149]
—— nuclei, [3]
—— photography, [17], [165]
Condensation, [93]
Cooling by contact, [89]
—— by expansion, [92]
—— by mixture, [90]
—— by radiation, [88]
Development, [175]
Differential currents, [133]
Diffraction, [63]
Dimensions of clouds, [112]
Dry fog, [73]
Equilibrium, stable and unstable, [106]
Exeter measurements, [137]
Exposure, [167]
Fall cloud, [81], [88]
False cirrus, [110]
Fog particles, [60]
Fracto, [164]
Gravitation, [4]
Great waves, [129]
Halos, [21], [22], [23]
Heat cumulus, [85]
—— thunderstorms, [107]
Hildebrandsson, [10]
Hoar frost, [60]
Howard, Luke, [9], [10]
Intensification, [177]
Interconvection, [125]
International Code, [11]
—— Committee, [10]
—— System, [12], [71]
Ions as nuclei, [92]
Irregularities of ground, [39]
Kepler, [4]
Kew, [138]
Ley, Clement, [24], [34], [55]
Lightning, [114]
Lower clouds, [71]
Mammato-cumulus, [99]
Meteorological Conference, [9]
Methods of computing altitudes, [143]
Munich, [9]
Newton, [4]
Nimbus, [74], [163]
Nuclei, [92]
Photographic methods, [17], [165]
Rain-clouds, altitude, [76]
——, thickness, [81]
Rate of fall of temperature, [94]
Sandstorms, [117]
Saturation, [87]
Scotch mist, [73]
Slow plates, [167]
Spread of condensation, [57]
Stable equilibrium, [106]
Strato-cumulus, [77]
Stratus, [72], [161]
—— communis, [77], [161]
—— lenticularis, [80], [98], [162]
—— maculosus, [78], [162]
—— radius, [79], [162]
Subsidence of cloud top, [111]
Surfusion, [61]
Swing stand, [171]
Turreted cloud, [66]
Tycho Brahe, [4]
Types, [8]
Umbra and penumbra, [29]
Undatus, [164]
Unsaturated cloud, [101]
Upsala, [10], [138]
Wave clouds, [47], [119], [133]
Wilson, C. T. R., [92]
THE END
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] See reference No. 2 on p. [181].
[2] The telescope with which these observations have been made is a 6·8-inch refractor equatorially mounted.
[3] Ferricyanide of potassium and hyposulphite of soda.