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IN reply to Prof. Alexander McAdie's request (NATURE, April 12) for a means of recording gustiness, I venture to throw out the suggestion that this might be done by observing what in German is called “wimmern”. “Hoert Ihrs wimmern hoch vom Thurn? Das ist Sturm”. This variation in the sounds heard from church bells during gusty weather is due to the irregular velocities in the atmosphere. That part of a whirl of air which moves in the same direction as the sound will increase the pitch of the note heard, and vice versâ. If an instrument could be devised for recording rapid but slight changes of pitch of musical notes, a fairly accurate estimate of the irregularities of atmospheric velocities could be obtained.
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STROMEYER, C. Aeroplanes and Atmospheric Gustiness. Nature 99, 164–165 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099164c0
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