On passing Korean peninsula the front presented itself as two, and on getting over the Japanese Islands as three lines of discontinuity as shown in fig. 1. in p. 235. Such abehaviour of the front is already pointed out by J. Bjerkness and H. Solberg. The structure of the front was nearly that shown by the model of squal line of W. Schmidt, which fact is clearly understood from the way of variation of weather elements as shown in fig. 2. in p. 236. It is noteworthy that the direction (NW) of rushing air was normal to the front (SW-NE) and after its passage the wind shifted to from the west and the air temperature increased. This fact is not quite in accordance with the model of Schmidt. It seems probable that the head of cold front is the seat of a linear vortex with horizontal axis, which proceeds by rolling as if a solitary bore. The velocity of the proceeding front was well expressed in average by the formula given by Schmidt where
b is the bearing of the pressure nose in millimetre of mercury and
v is the velocity in km per hour.
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