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THE publication in 1906 of Shaw and Lempfert's “Life-History of Surface Air-Currents” marked the passing of a milestone in the progress of our knowledge concerning the mechanism of travelling cyclonic depressions, and it is a matter of surprise that so little further advance along the same lines has been made since that time. This lack of progress obviously could not continue for ever, and two recent publications by Sir Napier Shaw suggest that the next milestone has now been passed.
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"The Travel of Circular Depressions and Tornadoes and the Relation of Pressure to Wind for Circular Isobars." By Sir Napier Shaw. Meteorological Office. Geophysical Memoirs, No. 12, 1918.
"Revolving Fluid in the Atmosphere." Proc. Roy. Soc., A, vol. xciv., p. 34, 1917.
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D., J. The Dynamics of Cyclonic Depressions 1 . Nature 102, 69 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/102069a0
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