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... month ) . The Climatic Elements and their Treatment . Climatology has to deal with the same groups of at- mospheric conditions as those with which meteorology is concerned , viz .: temperature ( including radiation ) ; moisture ...
... month ) . The Climatic Elements and their Treatment . Climatology has to deal with the same groups of at- mospheric conditions as those with which meteorology is concerned , viz .: temperature ( including radiation ) ; moisture ...
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... month , or a season , are important data , not in any way replaced by a knowledge of the mean monthly or seasonal temperature and rainfall . Further , a determination of the frequency of occurrence of a given condition , or of certain ...
... month , or a season , are important data , not in any way replaced by a knowledge of the mean monthly or seasonal temperature and rainfall . Further , a determination of the frequency of occurrence of a given condition , or of certain ...
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... months , or the proportion of the annual rain and snowfall received from cyclonic storms and from local thunderstorms , might be determined.1 Solar Climate . The sun is clearly the principal control of climates on the earth's surface ...
... months , or the proportion of the annual rain and snowfall received from cyclonic storms and from local thunderstorms , might be determined.1 Solar Climate . The sun is clearly the principal control of climates on the earth's surface ...
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... MONTHS Sol FIG . 1 . DISTRIBUTION OF INSOLATION OVER THE Earth without the effect of absorption by the atmosphere . The accompanying diagram ( see Fig . I ) shows very clearly the distribution of insolation in both hemi- spheres at ...
... MONTHS Sol FIG . 1 . DISTRIBUTION OF INSOLATION OVER THE Earth without the effect of absorption by the atmosphere . The accompanying diagram ( see Fig . I ) shows very clearly the distribution of insolation in both hemi- spheres at ...
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... month were the determining factors . Parmenides , who flourished about the middle of the fifth century B. C. , proposed a five - zone division of the earth's surface not very unlike our present sys- tem . These zones were a torrid zone ...
... month were the determining factors . Parmenides , who flourished about the middle of the fifth century B. C. , proposed a five - zone division of the earth's surface not very unlike our present sys- tem . These zones were a torrid zone ...
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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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