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XXI.—The Meteorology of Edinburgh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

Extract

In my previous papers on “The Meteorology of Edinburgh” the data referring to local climate were reduced down to the end of 1896. In the time that has elapsed since their publication a number of memoirs from places on the Continent and elsewhere have appeared in which the data, mostly dealing with long periods, were brought down to the end of 1900. In order to facilitate the comparison of the Edinburgh record with those referred to, I have completed new monthly and annual averages for the ten years 1891–1900, the fifty years 1851–1900, and for longer periods, which embrace 137 years in the case of mean temperature, 131 years for mean barometric pressure, 130 years for the non-instrumental phenomena, and 124 years for rainfall (see Tables I. to IV.). The values previously published have been carefully examined, and a number of errors which escaped detection at the time eliminated. A Table of Errata (see Table XXIX.) is appended. Tables V. and VI. show respectively the mean monthly and annual departure from the normal of the mean maximum and minimum temperatures for the fifty years 1851–1900. A few of the values formerly published (see Table XVIIL, Trans., vol. xxxix. pp. 130–133) are about 0°·6 too high, but they have been corrected.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1905

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References

page 469 note * Part I., Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin., vol. xxxviii. pp. 681–755; Part II., vol. xxxix. pp. 63–207.

page 475 note * Accountants' Magazine, February 1900.