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PREVIOUS to 1872, discussions of the fundamental problems of meteorology relating to diurnal changes in atmospheric pressure, temperature, humidity, wind, and other phenomena, may be regarded as restricted to observations made on land. It had then, however, become evident that data from observations made on land only, which occupies about a fourth part of the earth's surface, were quite inadequate to a right conception and explanation of meteorologieal phenomena; and hence, when the Challenger Expedition was fitted out, arrangements, were made for taking, during the cruise, hourly or two-hourly observations. These observations were published in detail in the “Narrative of the Cruise,” Vol. II. pp. 305-74, and are still by far the most complete yet made on the meteorology of the ocean.
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Meteorological Report of the “Challenger” Expedition1. Nature 41, 443–445 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/041443a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/041443a0