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... Rain and snow -Humidity , cloudiness and fog Cyclones and weather - Twilight and optical phenomena - Physi- ological effects . - CHAPTER VII . THE HYGIENE OF THE ZONES Introduction : some general relations of climate and health - A ...
... Rain and snow -Humidity , cloudiness and fog Cyclones and weather - Twilight and optical phenomena - Physi- ological effects . - CHAPTER VII . THE HYGIENE OF THE ZONES Introduction : some general relations of climate and health - A ...
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... RAINS • 24 RAINY AND RAINLESS ZONES ON EASTERN ATLAN- TIC COAST · 125 25 ANNUAL MARCH OF TEMPERATURE FOR SELECTED SUB - TROPICAL STATIONS • 128 • 131 26 ANNUAL MARCH OF CLOUDINESS IN A SUB - TROPI- CAL CLIMATE • 133 27 ANNUAL MARCH OF ...
... RAINS • 24 RAINY AND RAINLESS ZONES ON EASTERN ATLAN- TIC COAST · 125 25 ANNUAL MARCH OF TEMPERATURE FOR SELECTED SUB - TROPICAL STATIONS • 128 • 131 26 ANNUAL MARCH OF CLOUDINESS IN A SUB - TROPI- CAL CLIMATE • 133 27 ANNUAL MARCH OF ...
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... rain or snow in any month , or year , or with rain of a certain amount , etc. The probability of occur- rence of any condition , as of rain in a certain month ; or of a temperature of 32 ° , for example , is also a useful thing to know ...
... rain or snow in any month , or year , or with rain of a certain amount , etc. The probability of occur- rence of any condition , as of rain in a certain month ; or of a temperature of 32 ° , for example , is also a useful thing to know ...
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... 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 . The gen- eral distribution of temperature ...
... 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 . The gen- eral distribution of temperature ...
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... rains , and monsoons . On the polar margins of the trade wind zone lie the sub - tropical belts , of alternating trades and westerlies . The temperate zones , with the great irregularity of their weather phenomena and their marked ...
... rains , and monsoons . On the polar margins of the trade wind zone lie the sub - tropical belts , of alternating trades and westerlies . The temperate zones , with the great irregularity of their weather phenomena and their marked ...
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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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