Wind, temperature and rainfall graph
Date
1841
Creator
Luke Howard (1772 - 1864, British) , Meteorologist
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Archive reference number
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 230mm
width (page): 288mm
height (graph): 174mm
width (graph): 261mm
width (page): 288mm
height (graph): 174mm
width (graph): 261mm
Subject
Description
Graph detailing prevailing wind directions, rain depth, and mean temperature over a period of eighteen years, 1815-1832, in London. The years are listed along the horizontal access, and all variables are listed on the vertical access: wind proportion/direction, mean temperature and rain depth from top to bottom respectively.
Different colours, green, pink, yellow and blue, are used to represent the different directions of winds, and the graph suggests a higher frequency of west-northerly and south-westerly winds over eastward blowing winds.
Blue and pink are used to demonstrate periods below and above an average of 49.51◦, with the lowest temperatures seen in 1816 and the highest in 1828, and a line graph demonstrates average rainfall depth, below and above an average of 29.827 inches, with the rainiest period in 1826.
Diagram 2 from a paper sent to the Royal Society by Luke Howard, ‘On the proportions of the prevailing winds, mean temperature and depth of rains, in the climate of London’.
Luke Howard (1772-1864) British manufacturing chemist and meteorologist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1821.
Different colours, green, pink, yellow and blue, are used to represent the different directions of winds, and the graph suggests a higher frequency of west-northerly and south-westerly winds over eastward blowing winds.
Blue and pink are used to demonstrate periods below and above an average of 49.51◦, with the lowest temperatures seen in 1816 and the highest in 1828, and a line graph demonstrates average rainfall depth, below and above an average of 29.827 inches, with the rainiest period in 1826.
Diagram 2 from a paper sent to the Royal Society by Luke Howard, ‘On the proportions of the prevailing winds, mean temperature and depth of rains, in the climate of London’.
Luke Howard (1772-1864) British manufacturing chemist and meteorologist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1821.
Object history
Object history
This paper was received at the Royal Society on 1 April 1841 and read on 22 April 1841. It was not published by the Society in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
This paper was received at the Royal Society on 1 April 1841 and read on 22 April 1841. It was not published by the Society in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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