Climate: A Treatise on the Principles of Weather and Climate |
Contents
INTRODUCTION I The Scope of Climatology | 1 |
INSOLATION AND TEMPERATURE II Temperature Differences | 4 |
The Distribution of Insolation 58 | 5 |
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air temperature altitude Antarctic Circle Antarctica anticyclone ascent Atlantic atmosphere Barometer British Isles calm cause climate cloudless coast cold air colder condensation continues convection cool cumulus clouds currents cyclone damp depression diurnal earth east Equator especially Europe evaporation falls feet föhn wind freezing-point gradient Greenland ground Gulf Stream heat heavy hemisphere high pressures higher humidity inches insolation intense interior isobars July June land masses less maximum mean annual Mean Rainfall mean temperature Mediterranean miles monsoon month mountain night north-east north-west northern hemisphere ocean owing plateau Polar radiation rain rainy range rapidly rays records region rise Sahara sea-level season Siberia skies slopes snow south-east south-west strata stratus cloud summer sunshine surface air temperate latitudes thunderstorms trade winds trade-wind deserts trades tropics type of rainfall usually valleys vapour Wadi Halfa warm warmer weather westerlies winter