Abstract
MUCH more will be found in this atlas than is to be inferred from the title. The author promises to set out graphically the annual values of meteorological elements for Paris from 1700 to 1920, with monthly values from 1761. This is shown in a series of plates. He also gives complete monthly and annual tables for several elements from 1874 to 1920, with a column of annual departures from average, and of variations from year to year. The wind tables are not so full, as they date back only to 1890, and some of the other tables do not begin until 1876 or 1878. In addition, there is a table of extreme barometer readings, from 1809 to 1919 for each month and for the year, and of highest and lowest mean monthly and annual readings from 1757 to 1919. The highest recorded barometer reading at an altitude of 67 m. was 781.2 mm. in February, 1821, and the lowest 713.5 mm. in December of the same year. During the period from 1878, of which fuller details are given, the highest readings were 782.4 mm. on January 16, 1905, and 782.3 mm. on January 17, 1882, at an altitude of 50.3 m. (corresponding to 780.7 mm. at an altitude of 67 nu), and the lowest 718.1 mm. on January 10, 1916. It is to be remarked that at Greenwich, in the same period, the highest readings—782 mm.—were recorded on January 17, 1882, and January 29, 1905. The latter was nearly a fortnight later than the Paris maximum, though the former was on the same day, indicating a very extensive anticyclone, with possibly an even higher reading at some intermediate point. Naturally, no such accordance can be expected in the minimum readings.
Atlas Météorologique de Paris
By Joseph Lévine. Pp. vi + 83 + 9 plates. (Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Cie, 1921.) 20 francs.
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B., W. Atlas Météorologique de Paris . Nature 108, 6 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108006a0
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