 | Alexander Buchan - 1871 - 260 pagina’s
...familiar with the different forms or application of this LAW, we shall state it in two other forms: (1.) Stand with your back to the wind, and the lowest barometer,...hemisphere, and to your right in the southern hemisphere. This is the guiding principle to sailors, by which they are taught how to steer with reference to storms.... | |
 | New Jersey Geological Survey, 1863-1915 - 1881 - 240 pagina’s
...&c., whereas in high barometers this order is reversed. According to Buys-Ballot's Law of the Winds, " stand with your back to the wind, and the lowest barometer or center of depression will be to your left in the northern hemisphere." While the low barometers are... | |
 | 1888 - 926 pagina’s
...Bnys-Ballot'e "Law of the Winds," already IIL - s referred to, bat which may be otherwise thua put : — Stand with your back to the wind, and the lowest barometer,...depression, will be to your left in the northern hemisphere (in the southern hemisphere to the right) ; this rule holds universally. (2.) The/orceof the wind is... | |
 | 1907 - 780 pagina’s
...as Buys-Ballot's "Law of the Winds," »Iready referred to, but which may be otherwise thus put:— Stand with your back to the wind, and the lowest barometer,...depression, will be to your left in the northern hemisphere (in the southern hemisphere to the right) ; this rule holds universally. (2.) The fane of the wind... | |
 | John Frederick Unstead - 1909 - 136 pagina’s
...cyclonic map and then on the anticyclonic map. A law called Buys Ballot's Law is frequently stated thus : ' Stand with your back to the wind and the lowest barometer lies to the left.' Do the last three words express quite accurately the result you obtained ? Can you... | |
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Stand with your back to the wind, and the lowest barometer, or centre of depression, will be to your left in the northern hemisphere (in the southern hemisphere to the right) ; this rule holds universally. 