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contributor authorChenoweth, M.
contributor authorVaquero, J. M.
contributor authorGarcía-Herrera, R.
contributor authorWheeler, D.
date accessioned2017-06-09T16:43:17Z
date available2017-06-09T16:43:17Z
date copyright2007/12/01
date issued2007
identifier issn0003-0007
identifier otherams-72964.pdf
identifier urihttp://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4215025
description abstractThe first barometers in the Americas were provided by the Royal Society of London in 1677 to correspondents in the Caribbean Island of Barbados. Colonel William Sharpe of Barbados was the first person in the Americas to make daily observations of the weather using a meteorological instrument (other than a wind vane) and made the first known measurements of barometric pressure within the circulation of a hurricane on 12 August 1680. His record provides new insight into the early history of the barometer and early perceptions of tropical weather, vindicates the hypothesis that the barometer would prove useful in detecting hurricanes, and contributes to Edmund Halley's understanding of the empirical distinctions between the Tropics and temperate zones. Sharpe's name and contributions, previously unknown to the meteorological community, can now be properly recognized.
publisherAmerican Meteorological Society
titleA Pioneer in Tropical Meteorology: William Sharpe's Barbados Weather Journal, April–August 1680
typeJournal Paper
journal volume88
journal issue12
journal titleBulletin of the American Meteorological Society
identifier doi10.1175/BAMS-88-12-1957
journal fristpage1957
journal lastpage1964
treeBulletin of the American Meteorological Society:;2007:;volume( 088 ):;issue: 012
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