Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets
|
Buy Now
The Barometer Handbook (Paperback)
Loot Price: R665
Discovery Miles 6 650
You Save: R137
(17%)
|
|
The Barometer Handbook (Paperback)
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
The barometer remains the most important tool for evaluating and
predicting the weather. This book explains why knowing accurate
values of the atmospheric pressure can improve this process and
benefit all applications. Ways to evaluate and calibrate aneroid
and electronic barometers using readily available data by Internet
or telephone are clearly described. Tactical applications to marine
navigation are covered. The book also includes worldwide average
monthly pressures and their standard deviations. With the exception
of trained meteorological crews, barometers in the past were used
at sea primarily to learn if the pressure was going up or down, and
whether it was doing this rapidly or slowly. And from this we made
an educated guess of a likely consequence, usually in conjunction
with other observations. Outside of professional marine use, little
effort was made to know the true pressure for several reasons. We
did not know what to do with it if we had it, and more often we
could not get it if we wanted it, because most barometers were not
calibrated. This has changed. We now have many valuable
applications of accurate pressure, and we also have affordable ways
to get it, and we have convenient ways to prove our instruments
work properly. The main goal of this book is to show how all this
comes about, and to give more insight into this fascinating,
venerable instrument that has been with us for 150 years. Another
goal is to introduce users to the new breed of electronic devices
that are in the process of revolutionizing how we do weather at
sea. We also re-introduce mariners to several classic aneroid
instruments that are highly accurate and tested at sea for over 70
years, and why we benifit from having both a calibrated aneroid and
an electronic barometer on board.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.