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... 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 complex ...
... 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 complex ...
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... snow . CHANGES OF CLIMATE CHAPTER XI . · Popular belief in climatic change - Evidence of climatic changes within historic times - What mete- orological records show - Why the popular belief in climatic changes is untrustworthy - Value ...
... snow . CHANGES OF CLIMATE CHAPTER XI . · Popular belief in climatic change - Evidence of climatic changes within historic times - What mete- orological records show - Why the popular belief in climatic changes is untrustworthy - Value ...
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... snow - cover , while the second part deals with the climates of special areas . The standard meteorologi- cal journal of the world , the Meteorologische Zeit- schrift ( Braunschweig , Vieweg , monthly ) , is indis- pensable to anyone ...
... snow - cover , while the second part deals with the climates of special areas . The standard meteorologi- cal journal of the world , the Meteorologische Zeit- schrift ( Braunschweig , Vieweg , monthly ) , is indis- pensable to anyone ...
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... 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 ...
... 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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... 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 , as ...
... 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 , as ...
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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.