This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...the atmosphere remain perhaps unusually clear. This happened on Sunday, May 22, 1870, over a great part of Ireland. So clear was the lower air that Snowdon was indistinctly seen from the Hill of Howth on the north of Dublin Bay, while a vapour fog or haze, suspended in mid air, absorbed the blue rays of the solar ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...the atmosphere remain perhaps unusually clear. This happened on Sunday, May 22, 1870, over a great part of Ireland. So clear was the lower air that Snowdon was indistinctly seen from the Hill of Howth on the north of Dublin Bay, while a vapour fog or haze, suspended in mid air, absorbed the blue rays of the solar spectrum, causing the sun to assume a pinkish or carmine tint, and a strange lurid light to spread over the landscape. I described the phenomenon in Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine for June 1870 (vol. v. p. 65). The accompanying photograph, taken by Mr. F. J. Rebman, shows the sunshine breaking through a dense morning vapour fog or mist at Eltham. CHAPTER XIX THE ATMOSPHERE OF AQUEOUS VAPOUR (continued) Definition of a "Cloud "--Height of Clouds--The "Cloud Line "--Luke Howard's Classification of Cloud Forms--Upper Clouds: Cirrus, Cirro-cumulus, Cirro-stratus--Pallium (Poey)--The Mackerel Sky--Lower Clouds: Stratus, Cumulus, Cumulo-stratus, Nimbus--Rollcumulus--"Pocky" or "Festooned " Cloud--Cloud-slopes in Cumulus--Various meanings of the word " Nimbus "--Scud--Cloud observations--Scale for the amount of Cloud--Characters of Thunder-clouds--Their rapid changes in Formation, Shape, and Density. Clouds We pass from fogs to clouds by an easy and rational transition. A cloud is a collection of particles of aqueous vapour condensed into watery particles and floating in the atmosphere at some height above the ground. This height varies from a few hundred feet to several miles, feathery cirri having been observed far above him by Gay-Lussac, in September, 1804, when in a balloon at a height of 23,000 feet, or considerably more than four miles. Tyndall has aptly applied the term "water dust&q...
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