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THERE has been in recent years a re-awakened interest in the problem of the periodic variations of the wind, but there remains much to be done to complete that thorough harmonic analysis of the motion of the air which Kelvin emphasised as one of the most important lines of meteorological research so long ago as 1876. Hitherto attention has been devoted mainly to a consideration of the semi-diurnal variation, and the results have shown conclusively that the regular semi-diurnal wave of pressure can, as indeed it must, be connected through the hydro-dynamical equations with a similar regular variation of the wind-vector. In the discussion of the record for individual places, the question of the local variations from the general law and their explanation rightly find a place, but they ought not to be allowed to exclude the consideration of other possible periods.
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GOLD, E. Wind in the Adriatic and in Holland 1 . Nature 88, 218–219 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/088218a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/088218a0