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IN his recent contribution to meteorology, “Physics of the Air” (U.S. Weather Bureau, Washington), Prof. Humphreys refers, in chapters 11, 12, and 14, under the general headings of “Wind Layers” (p. 219), “Wind Billows” (p. 221). “Barometric Ripples” (p. 228), and “Special Cloud Forms” (p. 296), to the demonstration by Helmholtz (translated by Cleveland Abbe, “Mechanics of the Earth's Atmosphere,” Smithsonian Institution, 1891) that “adjacent layers of air differ abruptly from each other in temperature, humidity, and density, and therefore may and often do glide over each other with…a wave-producing effect.” Prof. Humphreys proceeds, of course, to associate these demonstrations with the problems of atmospheric turbulence.
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STEVENS, C. Telescopic Observation of Atmospheric Turbulence. Nature 110, 280 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110280c0
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