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Sir William Reid

British meteorologist

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study of storm tracks

  • volcanology
    In Earth sciences: Observation and study of storms

    In 1849 Sir William Reid, a British meteorologist and military engineer, studied the revolving storms that occur south of the Equator in the Indian Ocean and confirmed that they have reversed rotations and curvatures of path compared with those of the Northern Hemisphere. Capt. Henry Piddington subsequently…

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