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IN the year 1902, an account was given in this Journal (vol. lxvi. p. 248) of a short period atmospheric barometric variation which appeared to be closely related to the changes in the percentage frequency of prominences as observed year by year on the limb of the sun. In a later article, which appeared in the following year (vol. lxvii. p. 224), it was shown that this barometric variation consisted really of a great see-saw between two nearly antipodal parts of the earth, the one region about India and its neighbourhood behaving in an inverse way to that of South America and the southern parts of the United States. A further study of these pressure changes has recently been communicated by Sir Norman Lockyer and the writer to the Royal Society, the object being to trace the behaviour of these variations in as many regions of the earth's surface for which observations covering a sufficient period of time are available.
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LOCKYER, W. A World-Wide Barometric See-Saw . Nature 70, 177–178 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070177a0
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