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Reference numberAP/81/14/2
LevelItem
TitleUnpublished appendix, regarding 'Wind waves. Visible, directional and approximately horizontal contact waves at the interface of atmospheric strata' by Catherine [Catharine] O [Octavia] Stevens
CreatorStevens; Catherine Octavia (1865-1959); British astronomer; Director of the British Astronomical Association Meteor Section
Date5 December 1939
DescriptionStevens 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.
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionInk and graphite pencil on paper
Access statusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA1930Plaskett; Harry Hemley (1893 - 1980)1893 - 1980
NA8212Egerton; Sir; Alfred Charles Glyn (1886 - 1959); chemist1886 - 1959
NA7033Dobson; Gordon Miller Bourne (1889 - 1976)1889 - 1976
NA8165Chapman; Sydney (1888 - 1970); mathematician and geophysicist1888 - 1970
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