Aqueous vapour in relation to perpetual snow

Aqueous vapour in relation to perpetual snow


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ABSTRACT SOME twelve years ago I gave (_Phil. Mag._, March, 1867, “Climate and Time,” p. 548) what appears to be the true explanation of that apparently paradoxical fact observed by Mr.


Glaisher, that the difference of reading between a thermometer exposed to direct sunshine and one shaded _diminishes_, instead of increases, as we ascend in the atmosphere. This led me to an


important conclusion in regard to the influence of aqueous vapour on the melting-point of snow; but recent objections to some of my views convince me that I have not given to that


conclusion the prominence it deserves. I shall now state in a few words the conclusion to which I refer. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a preview of subscription


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