Barometer Handbook Louisiades Cape Cuvier 1 : 10

Cape Cuvier 1 : 10 000

Author:  Rob Starkey

With the exception of trained meteorological crews

Indian Ocean - Indian Ocean Southern Part 1 : 10 000 000

Barometer Handbook Louisiades Cape Cuvier 1 : 10With the exception of trained meteorological crews, barometers in the past were used at sea primarily to learn if the pressure was going up or down, and whether it was doing this rapidly or slowly. From this we made an educated guess of a likely consequence, usually in conjunction with other observations. Outside of professional marine use, little effort was made to know the true pressure for several reasons. We did not know what to do with it if we