On the climate of Worthing : its remedial influence in disease, especially of the lungs / by Walter Goodyer Barker.
- Barker, Walter Goodyer.
- Date:
- 1867
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the climate of Worthing : its remedial influence in disease, especially of the lungs / by Walter Goodyer Barker. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![evaporation, also, Tvhicli is constantly going on from the surface of the water, must have a material influence in summer in keeping down the sensible heat of the atmosphere contiguous to it, and during the winter the condensation of this vapour con- tributes no doubt to maintain the temperature at this season by giving out its latent heat. The whole of these islands, likewise, but mo];e especially its southern and western shores, are under the benign and tempering influence of the Gulf Stream, which is thus described by Captain Maury, LL.D., late Superintendent of the National Observatory, Washington, in his most interesting and instructive work, The Physical Geography of the Sea :— Every west wind that blows crosses the stream on its way to Europe, and carries with it a portion of this heat, which is about 9° above the ocean temperature due to the latitude to temper there northern winds of winter. It is the influence of this stream upon climate which makes Erin the ' emerald isle of the sea/ and clothes the shores^](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24756076_0041.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
