Handy Book of MeteorologyW. Blackwood and Sons, 1868 - 371 páginas |
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... Orkney , 29.775 inches , and 29.623 inches ; and at Sitka , in what was Russian America , 29.814 inches , and 29.631 inches . In all these places the distribution of the pressure is just the reverse of what obtains in Siberia , being ...
... Orkney , 29.775 inches , and 29.623 inches ; and at Sitka , in what was Russian America , 29.814 inches , and 29.631 inches . In all these places the distribution of the pressure is just the reverse of what obtains in Siberia , being ...
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... Orkney , and the Hebrides , whose climates are perhaps the most strictly insular in Europe , the summer range is only about 10 ° ; on the west of Great Britain it rises to 12 ° and 14 ° ; in the central districts to 15 ° ; and in the ...
... Orkney , and the Hebrides , whose climates are perhaps the most strictly insular in Europe , the summer range is only about 10 ° ; on the west of Great Britain it rises to 12 ° and 14 ° ; in the central districts to 15 ° ; and in the ...
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... From these observations we learn that the mean annual temperature at the mouth of Loch Fyne is 49 ° .0 , west of Oban 48 ° .7 , at Harris in Lewis 48 ° .9 , Orkney 48 ° .8 , 106 THE DISTRIBUTION OF TERRESTRIAL TEMPERATURE .
... From these observations we learn that the mean annual temperature at the mouth of Loch Fyne is 49 ° .0 , west of Oban 48 ° .7 , at Harris in Lewis 48 ° .9 , Orkney 48 ° .8 , 106 THE DISTRIBUTION OF TERRESTRIAL TEMPERATURE .
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Alexander Buchan. Lewis 48 ° .9 , Orkney 48 ° .8 , Shetland 48 ° .4 , and the mouth of the Firth of Forth 47 ° .8 . Hence the Atlantic is 1 ° .0 warmer than the North Sea off the east coast of Scotland . The sea is also 1 ° .0 warmer ...
Alexander Buchan. Lewis 48 ° .9 , Orkney 48 ° .8 , Shetland 48 ° .4 , and the mouth of the Firth of Forth 47 ° .8 . Hence the Atlantic is 1 ° .0 warmer than the North Sea off the east coast of Scotland . The sea is also 1 ° .0 warmer ...
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... to keep it warmer than the air , though it take some months to traverse the dis- tance from the north of Ireland to Orkney . Observations prove that the temperature of the sea , as compared THE TEMPERATURE OF THE SEA . 109.
... to keep it warmer than the air , though it take some months to traverse the dis- tance from the north of Ireland to Orkney . Observations prove that the temperature of the sea , as compared THE TEMPERATURE OF THE SEA . 109.
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