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Page v
... forests on climate , which many readers may expect to find considered in this book , is omitted because it is adequately taken up in Hann's Handbook ( Vol . I ) . I have drawn very freely upon Hann's Handbuch der Klimatologie PREFACE.
... forests on climate , which many readers may expect to find considered in this book , is omitted because it is adequately taken up in Hann's Handbook ( Vol . I ) . I have drawn very freely upon Hann's Handbuch der Klimatologie PREFACE.
Page xi
... forests - The open grass- lands of the tropics : savannas - Trade wind belts on land : the deserts - Trade wind belts at sea - Mon- soon districts - Tropical mountains . CHAPTER IX . THE LIFE OF MAN IN THE TEMPERATE ZONES Climate and ...
... forests - The open grass- lands of the tropics : savannas - Trade wind belts on land : the deserts - Trade wind belts at sea - Mon- soon districts - Tropical mountains . CHAPTER IX . THE LIFE OF MAN IN THE TEMPERATE ZONES Climate and ...
Page xii
... forests of the tem- perate zone - Forest clearings - The steppes - Cli- mates and crops in the temperate zones - The deserts -Mountains - Climate and weather : some mental effects - Climate and weather and military operations -Railroads ...
... forests of the tem- perate zone - Forest clearings - The steppes - Cli- mates and crops in the temperate zones - The deserts -Mountains - Climate and weather : some mental effects - Climate and weather and military operations -Railroads ...
Page 26
... forest trees do not grow , and man has to adjust himself to the conditions in a very special way . The two polar caps are not symmetrical as regards the latitudes which they occupy . The presence of ex- tended land masses in the high ...
... forest trees do not grow , and man has to adjust himself to the conditions in a very special way . The two polar caps are not symmetrical as regards the latitudes which they occupy . The presence of ex- tended land masses in the high ...
Page 52
... coniferous , forests of the Sierra Nevada to the snows on the summits . Similarly , the high plateaus of southern Utah and of Arizona are high enough to re- ceive fairly abundant rainfall , while the lowlands are arid 52 CLIMATE.
... coniferous , forests of the Sierra Nevada to the snows on the summits . Similarly , the high plateaus of southern Utah and of Arizona are high enough to re- ceive fairly abundant rainfall , while the lowlands are arid 52 CLIMATE.
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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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Page 273 - ... to the vigorous employment of all his faculties. A more economical Nature yields nothing, except to the sweat of his brow; every gift on her part is a recompense for effort on his.