Handy Book of MeteorologyW. Blackwood and Sons, 1868 - 371 páginas |
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... northern hemisphere . The observations published by the Meteorological Institute of Norway may be referred to as models of daily Meteorological Records . Uniformity in the methods of observation practised by Meteorologists is also most ...
... northern hemisphere . The observations published by the Meteorological Institute of Norway may be referred to as models of daily Meteorological Records . Uniformity in the methods of observation practised by Meteorologists is also most ...
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... north of the equator in July , the greater part of his heat falls on the northern hemisphere . That portion of the heat which falls on the land is wholly absorbed by the thin superficial layer exposed to the heating rays , which ...
... north of the equator in July , the greater part of his heat falls on the northern hemisphere . That portion of the heat which falls on the land is wholly absorbed by the thin superficial layer exposed to the heating rays , which ...
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... northern hemisphere in summer , will flow over as an upper current into the southern hemisphere , and increase the atmospheric pressure there . The massing of the isobarometric lines which indicate a pressure above the average to the ...
... northern hemisphere in summer , will flow over as an upper current into the southern hemisphere , and increase the atmospheric pressure there . The massing of the isobarometric lines which indicate a pressure above the average to the ...
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... northern hemisphere ; whereas the blue lines , showing pressures below the average , are , except in two small patches , the only pres- sures prevailing in the southern hemisphere . 105. An extraordinary excess of atmospheric pressure ...
... northern hemisphere ; whereas the blue lines , showing pressures below the average , are , except in two small patches , the only pres- sures prevailing in the southern hemisphere . 105. An extraordinary excess of atmospheric pressure ...
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... north of the equator has a very ir- regular outline , and great difference in its breadth and in its inclination to the equator , —these irregularities being due to the unequal distribution of land and water in the northern hemisphere ...
... north of the equator has a very ir- regular outline , and great difference in its breadth and in its inclination to the equator , —these irregularities being due to the unequal distribution of land and water in the northern hemisphere ...
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America antisolar point ascending Asia Atlantic atmospheric pressure average barometer blow Britain calm causes centre charts cirrus cirrus cloud cistern climate cloud coast cold colder column condensed continent Crown 8vo daily dew-point diminished direction dry air earth earth's surface east Edition electricity equator equatorial current Europe evaporation falls Fcap feet flow globe greater heat height hemisphere Hence high pressure higher hour humidity hygrometer Iceland inch of mercury inches increase Indian Ocean isobarometric lines January John Herschel July latitudes low pressure lower Mauritius maximum mean temperature mercury Meteorological meter miles minimum moisture monsoon months northern northern hemisphere Norway observations occur ocean Orkney perature Plate polar current polarisation prevail Professor rain rainfall regions rises round Scotland season snow soil south-west St Petersburg storms summer temperature terrestrial radiation thermometers tion tropics tube upper currents vols weather wind winter Yakutsk
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