Reference number | AP/81/14/2 |
Level | Item |
Title | Unpublished appendix, regarding 'Wind waves. Visible, directional and approximately horizontal contact waves at the interface of atmospheric strata' by Catherine [Catharine] O [Octavia] Stevens |
Creator | Stevens; Catherine Octavia (1865-1959); British astronomer; Director of the British Astronomical Association Meteor Section |
Date | 5 December 1939 |
Description | Stevens writes on the term 'wind waves', her studies of theoretical meteorology, and comments made on her original paper by H H Plaskett regarding the need of a 'movie film' record of the optical phenomena of the atmosphere.
Subject: Astronomy
Written by Stevens at Boar's Hill, Oxford, England. |
Extent | 3p |
Format | Manuscript |
Physical description | Ink and graphite pencil on paper |
Access status | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | Name | Dates |
NA1930 | Plaskett; Harry Hemley (1893 - 1980) | 1893 - 1980 |
NA8212 | Egerton; Sir; Alfred Charles Glyn (1886 - 1959); chemist | 1886 - 1959 |
NA7033 | Dobson; Gordon Miller Bourne (1889 - 1976) | 1889 - 1976 |
NA8165 | Chapman; Sydney (1888 - 1970); mathematician and geophysicist | 1888 - 1970 |