BUYS

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BUYS BALLOT'S LAW, in

meteorology

METEOROLOGY (Gr. JerEwpa, and hb'yos, i.e. the science of things in the air)

, the name given to a law which may be expressed as follows:" Stand with your back to the wind; the low-pressure area will be on your left-hand." This

rule

RULE

, the truth of which was first recognized by the American meteorologists J. H. Coffin and W. Ferrel, is a

direct

DIRECT

consequence of Ferrel's Law (q.v.). It is approximately true in the higher latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, and is reversed in the Southern Hemisphere, but the

angle

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the
primitive
- PRIMITIVE
form,
angus
- ANGUS, EARLS OF
, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a
bend
- BEND
or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a
bend
- BEND
; both connected with the
Aryan
- ARYAN
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
ank-, to

between barometric gradient and wind is not a right

angle

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the
primitive
- PRIMITIVE
form,
angus
- ANGUS, EARLS OF
, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the
Aryan
- ARYAN
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
ank-, to

in low latitudes. The law takes its name from C. H. D. Buys Ballott, a Dutch meteorologist, who published it in the Comptes rendus,

November

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

1857.

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