Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-mzp66 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-12T12:22:16.211Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Differences between the Ben Nevis and Fort-William Barometers when both are reduced to Sea-Level

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

R. T. Omond
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The barometer at the Fort-William Observatory is 42 feet above sea-level, and its readings are reduced to sea-level by the ordinary tables based on Laplace's formula; but in reducing the barometer at the Ben Nevis Observatory, which is 4407 feet above sea-level, use is made of a table specially constructed by Dr Buchan, and described by him in the first volume of the Ben Nevis Observations (see Transactions, vol. xxxiv. p. 24). This table consists of the average values of the difference between the barometer on Ben Nevis and that at sea-level in Fort-William, for each successive tenth of an inch of sea-level pressure and each degree of air temperature.

Type
Appendix
Information
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 42 , 1902 , pp. 513 - 518
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1902

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

page 513 note * See “Relations of Pressure and Temperature,” by Dr Buchan, page 496.