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FIVE notable contributions to the literature of the “solar constant“ have come recently from the United States: three, published by the Smithsonian Institution, give the evidence for variation in solar radiations and for the influence of that variation on terrestrial weather; the other two, appearing in the Monthly Weather Review, the organ of the Weather Bureau of the United States, contain critical analyses of the radiation statistics.
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01 December 1925
The writer of the article “Does the Solar Heat Stream Vary?” (NATURE, November 21) directs attention to two corrigenda. The quotation from Mr. Clayton on p. 755, col. 2, should read “These were supplemented by telegrams of the maximum temperature observed at Seattle, Williston, and Chicago, in order to ascertain to what extent the temperatures at those stations were responding to solar changes.” It should have been stated at the top of col. 1, p. 756, that, with wwcorrelated variables, the standard value of a correlation coefficient, com puted from 84 samples, was about 0–11.
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Washington, Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, vol. 77 (1925), No. 5: "Solar Variation and Forecasting", by C. G. Abbot ; No. 6: "Solar Radiation and Weather or Forecasting Weather from Observations of the Sun", by H. H. Clayton ; No. 7: "Solar Radiation and the Weekly Weather Forecast of the Argentine Meteorological Service", by Guillermo Hoxmark . Washington. Monthly Weather Review, July 1925. "On the Question of Day-to-day Fluctuations in the Derived Values of the Solar Constant", by C. F. Marvin . Smithsonian Solar-constant Values, by W. W. Kimball .
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W., F. Does the Solar Heat Stream Vary?1. Nature 116, 754–756 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116754a0
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