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THIS report gives a very satisfactory discussion, by copious tables and accompanying remarks, of the meteorological observations made at sixteen stations in the Grand Duchy of Baden during 1874. In addition to the tables usually printed in such reports, the temperature is given for the five-day means at all the stations. The monthly means of temperature, humidity, pressure, &c., include also the means of the separate hours of observation,—a feature of the report which deserves, from the important practical questions it throws light upon, to be more generally followed. The tabulation of thunderstorms shows each day on which these phenomena occurred at each of the stations. This method is greatly to be preferred to giving only the gross number for the separate months, since the data so published will be available in determining the periodicity of thunderstorms through the year,—an inquiry with which many interesting inquiries are intimately bound up. It is unnecessary to remark that 16 stations are miserably inadequate as a representation of the rainfall over the diversified surface of the Grand Duchy. Future reports will doubtless show a large increase to the staff of rainobservers. The daily pressure is given for two stations, Carlsruhe (404 ft.), and Höchenschwand (3,322 ft.), but unfortunately only the mean of the three daily observations is given, instead of one, or, better still, the whole three observations, it being only observations at particular hours which can be turned to account in charting the weather.
Jahresbericht der Meteorologischen Centralstation Carlsruhe über die Ergebnisse der an den Meteorologischen Stationen des Grossherzogthums Baden im Jahre, 1874, angestellten Beobachlungen.
(Bearbeitet von Oscar Ruppell.)
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Jahresbericht der Meteorologischen Centralstation Carlsruhe über die Ergebnisse der an den Meteorologischen Stationen des Grossherzogthums Baden im Jahre, 1874, angestellten Beobachlungen. Nature 13, 25 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/013025a0
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