Climate: A Treatise on the Principles of Weather and Climate |
Contents
INTRODUCTION 1 The Scope of Climatology | 1 |
INSOLATION AND TEMPERATURE II Temperature Differences | 4 |
The Distribution of Insolation | 5 |
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air temperature altitude Antarctica anticyclone ascent Atlantic atmosphere Barometer British Isles calm cause CHAPTER climate cloudless coast cold air condensation continues convection cool cumulus clouds currents cyclonic damp deflexion depression Earth east Equator especially Europe evaporation fall feet föhn wind freezing-point ground Gulf Stream heat heavy hemisphere high pressures higher humidity inches insolation intense interior isobars January July June Labrador current latitudes less maximum mean annual mean rainfall mean temperature Mediterranean miles monsoon month mountains night north-east north-west northern hemisphere ocean owing plateau polar radiation rain rainy range rapidly rays records region rise Sahara sea-level season skies slopes snow south-east south-west southerly strata stratus cloud sub-tropical summer sunshine surface air temperate latitudes thunderstorms Trade winds trade-wind deserts tropical type of rainfall usually valleys vapour Wadi Halfa warm warmer weather Westerlies wind blows winter