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THE two publications before us evidence the progress which is being made in different ways in our know ledge of the upper currents of the atmosphere. Dr. Figee, invalided home owing to the trying climate of Java, has taken the opportunity of discussing the observations (286) of the height of clouds, made at Batavia, 7° S., 107° E., in 1896–7, and later observations of cloud-velocity. The results for height agree generally with the values obtained in the same period at Manila, 14° N., 121° E. The following table gives the heights in km., the mean values for Paris and Potsdam being added for comparison:—
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Royal Magnetical and Meteorological Observatory at Batavia: Report on Cloud-Observations at Batavia made during the International Cloud year 1896–1897 and subsequent years. By Dr. S. Figee . Appendix ii. to vol. xxx. of the "Observations". Pp. 32. (Utrecht: Kemink and Sons, 1910.)
"Velocità e Direzione delle Correnti Aeree alle diverse Altitudini Determinate a Mezzo dei Palloni-Sonde e Piloti". By Dr. G. Pericle . Pp. 55—126; 5 plates. (Milana: U. Hoepli, 1910.)
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GOLD, E. Observations of the Motion of the Upper Air 1 . Nature 84, 249–250 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084249a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/084249a0