RAIN-GAGE FUNNELS OF DIFFERENT DEPTHS

• Main Author: Meteorological Oface London
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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• Language: English
• Subjects: Eather; Gage; Greenland; Mount Evans
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.387.9003; http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/059/mwr-059-04-0157.pdf

In this table m is the value of the length of the path of Figure 1. The atmospheric depletion indicated by this the solar rays in passing through the atmosphere in computed transmission includes all ths t Fowle found terms of the length when the sun is in the zenith, as coni- correlated with pure dry air and water vapor. The difputed by Bemporad. In the following column m is niul- ference between the two transmission values must be tiplied by the ratio of the atmospheric pressure fo stand- attributed to depletion by impurities in the atmosphere. ard pressure, or 760 mm. I is the measured intensity of Comparin these differences with corresponding differsolar radiation, and reRz is the mean value of the solar ences for dshington, D. C.; Madison, Wis.; Lincoln, constant, I,, divided by the square of the earth’s radius Nebr.; and Davos, Switzerland, given on page 51 of the vector in terms of its mean value. The computed atnios- REVIEW cited above, it is seen that the atmosphere at heric tranamission is obtained from the MONTHLY Mount Evans, Greenland, is relatively free from dust at February, 1930, volume 58, page 52, all seasons of the year, as we would expect it to be, fv EATHER REVIEW