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... TROPICS General : climate and weather - Temperature - The seasons - Physiological effects of heat and humidity -Pressure - Winds and rainfall - Land and sea breezes - Thunderstorms - Cloudiness - Intensity of sky - light and twilight ...
... TROPICS General : climate and weather - Temperature - The seasons - Physiological effects of heat and humidity -Pressure - Winds and rainfall - Land and sea breezes - Thunderstorms - Cloudiness - Intensity of sky - light and twilight ...
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... Tropics : general physiological effects - Trop- ical death rates - Hygiene in the tropics - Tropical diseases — Malaria - Yellow fever - Dysentery : diar- rhœal disorders - Tropical abscess of the liver- Cholera - Plague - Sunstroke and ...
... Tropics : general physiological effects - Trop- ical death rates - Hygiene in the tropics - Tropical diseases — Malaria - Yellow fever - Dysentery : diar- rhœal disorders - Tropical abscess of the liver- Cholera - Plague - Sunstroke and ...
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... TROPICS 21 ANNUAL MARCH OF CLOUDINESS IN THE TROPICS 22 ANNUAL MARCH OF TEMPERATURE : TROPICAL TYPE 97 23 MONTHLY DISTRIBUTION OF RAINFALL : SUB - TROPI- CAL WINTER RAINS • 24 RAINY AND RAINLESS ZONES ON EASTERN ATLAN- TIC COAST · 125 ...
... TROPICS 21 ANNUAL MARCH OF CLOUDINESS IN THE TROPICS 22 ANNUAL MARCH OF TEMPERATURE : TROPICAL TYPE 97 23 MONTHLY DISTRIBUTION OF RAINFALL : SUB - TROPI- CAL WINTER RAINS • 24 RAINY AND RAINLESS ZONES ON EASTERN ATLAN- TIC COAST · 125 ...
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... tropic to the pole the sun stands lower and lower at noon , and the value of insolation would steadily decrease with latitude if it were not for the increase in the length of day . Going pole- wards from the northern tropic on June 21 ...
... tropic to the pole the sun stands lower and lower at noon , and the value of insolation would steadily decrease with latitude if it were not for the increase in the length of day . Going pole- wards from the northern tropic on June 21 ...
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... tropics , the polar , and the temperate zones roughly correspond to these insolation belts . The regular distribution of solar climate between equator and poles which would exist on a homogene- ous earth , whereby similar conditions ...
... tropics , the polar , and the temperate zones roughly correspond to these insolation belts . The regular distribution of solar climate between equator and poles which would exist on a homogene- ous earth , whereby similar conditions ...
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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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