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... DIURNAL VARIATION OF PRESSURE : INFLUENCE OF ALTITUDE 9 DIURNAL VARIATION OF TEMPERATURE : INFLUENCE OF ALTITUDE • 10 SUPAN'S CLIMATIC PROVINCES • 11 GENERAL DISTRIBUTION OF PLANT ZONES 12 SCHEME OF CLIMATES AT SEA - LEVEL 13 NAMES OF ...
... DIURNAL VARIATION OF PRESSURE : INFLUENCE OF ALTITUDE 9 DIURNAL VARIATION OF TEMPERATURE : INFLUENCE OF ALTITUDE • 10 SUPAN'S CLIMATIC PROVINCES • 11 GENERAL DISTRIBUTION OF PLANT ZONES 12 SCHEME OF CLIMATES AT SEA - LEVEL 13 NAMES OF ...
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... diurnal changes , all depend upon changes in the intensity of sunshine . Hence a brief considera- tion of the distribution of insolation over the earth's surface is essential to a proper understanding of cli- mates . Climate , in so far ...
... diurnal changes , all depend upon changes in the intensity of sunshine . Hence a brief considera- tion of the distribution of insolation over the earth's surface is essential to a proper understanding of cli- mates . Climate , in so far ...
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... diurnal range of air temperature over the ocean between latitudes 0 ° and 40 ° averages only 2 ° or 3 ° . Further , the slow changes in temperature of the ocean waters involve a retardation in the times of occurrence of the maxima and ...
... diurnal range of air temperature over the ocean between latitudes 0 ° and 40 ° averages only 2 ° or 3 ° . Further , the slow changes in temperature of the ocean waters involve a retardation in the times of occurrence of the maxima and ...
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... climate . Continental Climate . Marine climate is equable ; continental , is severe . The annual temperature ranges increase , as a whole , with increasing distance from the ocean ; the regular diurnal ranges are also 38 CLIMATE.
... climate . Continental Climate . Marine climate is equable ; continental , is severe . The annual temperature ranges increase , as a whole , with increasing distance from the ocean ; the regular diurnal ranges are also 38 CLIMATE.
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... the ocean ; the regular diurnal ranges are also large , reaching 35 ° or 40 ° , and even more , in the arid F. J. F. M. A. M. J. J. A. S. O. N. D. J. C. 860 Bd 300 NM 680 M Bd 50 ° 200 M Bd 100 V 320 00 14 아 -109 40 -220 N -200 -309 ...
... the ocean ; the regular diurnal ranges are also large , reaching 35 ° or 40 ° , and even more , in the arid F. J. F. M. A. M. J. J. A. S. O. N. D. J. C. 860 Bd 300 NM 680 M Bd 50 ° 200 M Bd 100 V 320 00 14 아 -109 40 -220 N -200 -309 ...
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Africa altitude ANNUAL MARCH Antarctic anticyclonic Arctic Arctic circle Asia chiefly civilisation climatology cloudiness cold colder continental climate continents cool crops curve cyclonic damp decrease deserts disease distribution districts diurnal drier dry season earth's surface east eastern coasts effect equator equatorial Europe favourable forests Greenland heat higher latitudes humidity important increasing India insolation irrigation islands isotherm land latitude circle less lowlands malaria margins maxima maximum mean annual mean temperature Meteorology migration monsoon months mountain climates natives natural North America north polar northern oceans perature period plateaus polar climate polar zones pole population pressure prevailing Province rainfall rainy season regions result savannas sea-level Siberia snow southern hemisphere steppes storms sub-tropical sub-tropical belts summer sunspot temperature tion trade wind trees tropics tude tundra usually vegetation warm warmer weather west coast westerlies western yellow fever
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