Handy Book of MeteorologyWilliam Blackwood, 1868 - 371 sider |
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Side 42
Alexander Buchan. is situated in a vast natural depression in the high table - land of America , measuring 500 miles each way , and from which there is no outlet . The streams which water the country flow into the Salt Lake , and thence ...
Alexander Buchan. is situated in a vast natural depression in the high table - land of America , measuring 500 miles each way , and from which there is no outlet . The streams which water the country flow into the Salt Lake , and thence ...
Side 47
... land as compared with water , the land is more quickly and more highly heated than the ocean by the sun . Further , as the atmosphere over land is much drier than that over the sea , fewer of the solar rays being absorbed where the air ...
... land as compared with water , the land is more quickly and more highly heated than the ocean by the sun . Further , as the atmosphere over land is much drier than that over the sea , fewer of the solar rays being absorbed where the air ...
Side 48
... land : we should , therefore , expect to find high barometers in the northern hemisphere over the ocean , and particularly in that ocean which is most completely surrounded by heated land , which may thus pour over into it , by the ...
... land : we should , therefore , expect to find high barometers in the northern hemisphere over the ocean , and particularly in that ocean which is most completely surrounded by heated land , which may thus pour over into it , by the ...
Side 49
... land of North America , South America , and North Africa . Consequently this ocean shows the great- est excess of atmospheric pressure as compared with other parts of the earth's surface in the same latitudes . The South Atlantic shows ...
... land of North America , South America , and North Africa . Consequently this ocean shows the great- est excess of atmospheric pressure as compared with other parts of the earth's surface in the same latitudes . The South Atlantic shows ...
Side 50
... land to condense the vapour till they flow within the antarctic circle . 104. MEAN ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE FOR JANUARY - PLATE II . - Since , speaking generally , the same conditions which bring about a high atmospheric temperature in ...
... land to condense the vapour till they flow within the antarctic circle . 104. MEAN ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE FOR JANUARY - PLATE II . - Since , speaking generally , the same conditions which bring about a high atmospheric temperature in ...
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