Postcode average wind speed indicator

✍ Scribed by Nigel Raine

• Book ID: 104602686
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 51 KB
• Volume: 65
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0043-1656
• DOI: 10.1002/wea.639

✦ Synopsis

Rothamsted. Records of temperature showed that different soils have different heat capacities; grass traps much air below the leaves, and a wood modifies the climate of open country in several ways. The builder of a house would have to consider carefully before choosing a site in a frost hollow. Symons was also present at this address, and the evidence from these two papers strongly suggests that Ellis, together with Symons, was involved in the early studies of micrometeorology.

From his life-long association with Sir George Airy, Director of the Royal Observatory and Astronomer Royal (1835-1881), Ellis imperceptibly acquired many of the characteristics of the great man -punctuality, regularity, a love of order, and a methodical way of dealing with official business. In 1865, he was nominated as an Honorary Member of the British Horological Institute, and in 1873 he became a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. He was elected a Fellow of the Meteorological Society in 1875.

Ellis was twice married, on