Joseph Baxendell (meteorologist)

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Joseph Baxendell (* 1869 in Crumpsall , Lancashire , England , † January 14, 1940 in Southport , England) was a British meteorologist .

Life

Joseph Baxendell was born in Crumpsall in 1869 , where his father, Joseph Baxendell , had been an astronomer for the Corporation of Manchester since 1859 and worked at Robert Worthington's private observatory . His mother, Mary Anne, was a sister of Norman Robert Pogson . When the observatory was moved from Crumpsall to Altrincham in 1869 , Murray Gladstone Baxendell prohibited further use. In 1871 the family moved to Birkdale , where his father became a borough meteorologist and first superintendent of the Fernley Observatory .

Due to his health, Baxendell did not attend school and was home-schooled by his parents and some friends of the family. This also sparked interest in his father's meteorological and astronomical work. While his father devoted himself more and more to astronomy, Baxendell decided to concentrate on meteorology. When his father died in 1887, at the suggestion of Henry Enfield Roscoe , Joseph Baxendell was appointed the new superintendent of the Fernley Observatory and borough meteorologist at the age of just 18. In June 1936, after almost 50 years, he resigned from his position.

In his work, Baxendell mainly dealt with the periodicity of weather events. Even before his father died, he discovered a 5.1 year cycle of rainfall in Lancashire. At the turn of the century he also developed his own meteorological measuring devices , although he did not have a laboratory or workshop equipped for this purpose. These include a selbstaufzeichnedes anemoscope , a developed together with Frank Lee Halliwell selbstaufzeichnender rain gauge and anemometer developed by Baxendell and William Henry Dines .

Baxendell was a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society since 1891 and Vice President of the Society in 1922.

Works

  • A new self-recording anemoscope . In: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society . Vol. 25, No. 112, 1899, pp. 326–329 , doi : 10.1002 / qj.49702511204 (English).
  • Description of Halliwell's self-recording Rain Gauge . In: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society . Vol. 26, No. 116, 1900, pp. 281–286 , doi : 10.1002 / qj . 49702611604 (English).
  • Note on the Duration of Rainfall . In: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society . Vol. 29, No. 127, 1903, pp. 181-188 , doi : 10.1002 / qj.49702912706 (English).
  • Descriptions of the Dines-Baxendell Anemograph, and the dial-pattern non-oscillating pressure-plate anemometer . In: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society . Vol. 29, No. 128, 1903, pp. 289–298 , doi : 10.1002 / qj.49702912804 (English).
  • Meteorological Periodicities of the Order of a few Years, and their requisitely local Investigation; with special references to the term of 5.1 years, in Parts of Britain . In: Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society . Vol. 51, No. 216, 1925, pp. 371-395 , doi : 10.1002 / qj.49705121607 (English).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Robert Hugh Kargon: Science in Victorian Manchester . Enterprise and Expertise. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Manchester 1977, pp. 75 (English).
  2. ^ Wolfgang Steinicke: Observing and Cataloging Nebulae and Star Clusters . From Herschel to Dreyer's New General Catalog. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-19267-5 , pp. 384 (English).
  3. ^ Alan Hills, Ray Bennion: Timeline of the Fernley Observatory. (PDF) In: Fernley Observatory. August 2016, accessed March 6, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Baxendell, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Crumpsall , Lancashire , England
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1940
Place of death Southport , England