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IN NATURE of Oct. 8, J. S. Dines gives an example of small whirlwinds in which the reduction of pressure at the foot of the central core was much greater than it could possibly have been at the top of the column, and further compares this with the case of an actual tornado where the same thing evidently takes place.
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DINES, L. Dynamics of Whirlwinds. Nature 120, 878 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120878b0
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