Loomis's “Contributions to Meteorology”

Abstract

IT is now fifty years since Prof. Loomis's attention was directed to the study of meteorology, his interest in the subject having been awakened by Redfield's investigations respecting the phenomena and laws of storms. During the first forty years his principal writings were elaborate discussions of the great storm which occurred in America in December 1836, and an equally remarkable storm which occurred in Europe shortly after the American storm, and an account of another United States storm in February 1842, which in a part of its course was accompanied by a tornado of unusual violence. The chief outcome of these investigations was a new method of charting observations, now so familiar to all the world in our weather maps, and the demonstration of the capital fact in meteorology, that in storms the movement of the wind is spirally inwards, circulating from right to left about the centre of the cyclone.

Contributions to Meteorology.

By Elias Loomis., Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in Yale College, &c. Revised Edition. (New Haven, Conn., U.S., 1885.)