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Line-Squalls*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

M. A. Giblett*
Affiliation:
Airship Meteorology Division, Meteorological Office, Air Ministry

Extract

The subject of “Line-squalls” is one which has not been entirely neglected in the proceedings of this Society, but it has not hitherto been treated in any degree of detail. Sir Napier Shaw, in a lecture delivered on January 7th, 1914, on the subject of “Wind Gusts and the Structure of Aerial Disturbances,” briefly cited the line-squall as a phenomenon involving a violent commotion in the atmosphere, illustrating his remarks by sketches and meteorological records relating to a well-marked instance on October 14th, 1912, at Aberdeen.

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Proceedings
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1927

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Footnotes

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Read by permission of the Director of the Meteorological Office.

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