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... Winds and rainfall - Land and sea breezes - Thunderstorms - Cloudiness - Intensity of sky - light and twilight - Climatic subdivisions : I. The equatorial belt - II . Trade wind belts - III , Mon- soon belts - IV . Mountain climate ...
... Winds and rainfall - Land and sea breezes - Thunderstorms - Cloudiness - Intensity of sky - light and twilight - Climatic subdivisions : I. The equatorial belt - II . Trade wind belts - III , Mon- soon belts - IV . Mountain climate ...
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... 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 man in the temperate zones : general -Northward movement of ...
... 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 man in the temperate zones : general -Northward movement of ...
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... trade wind zone extends the sub - equatorial belt , with its migrating calms , 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 ...
... trade wind zone extends the sub - equatorial belt , with its migrating calms , 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 ...
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... trade wind belts and sepa- rate areas which are climatically the same . The tem- perature zones proposed by Köppen , while useful in special studies of plant distribution , are too detailed for general adoption . In Whatever climatic ...
... trade wind belts and sepa- rate areas which are climatically the same . The tem- perature zones proposed by Köppen , while useful in special studies of plant distribution , are too detailed for general adoption . In Whatever climatic ...
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... trade wind belts offer special conditions . Here the deserts often reach the sea , as on the western coasts of South America , Africa , and Australia . Cold ocean currents , with prevailing winds along shore rather than onshore , are ...
... trade wind belts offer special conditions . Here the deserts often reach the sea , as on the western coasts of South America , Africa , and Australia . Cold ocean currents , with prevailing winds along shore rather than onshore , are ...
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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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