Climate: An Inquiry Into the Causes of Its Differences, and Into Its Influence on Vegetable Life : Comprising the Substance of Four Lectures Delivered Before the Natural History Society, at the Museum, Torquay, in February, 1863, Opseg 2John Henry and James Parker, 1863 - Broj stranica: 144 |
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... coldest part of the globe , namely in the Arctic regions , averages probably not less than 76 degrees of Fahrenheit , as the mean temperature of the polar regions is generally set down as about zero of that scale ; whilst in the tropics ...
... coldest part of the globe , namely in the Arctic regions , averages probably not less than 76 degrees of Fahrenheit , as the mean temperature of the polar regions is generally set down as about zero of that scale ; whilst in the tropics ...
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... coldest spots in that hemi- sphere also are placed round and about the point which has been determined to be that of no variation . Everywhere indeed in North America we find the tempe- rature relatively lower than in Europe . Thus ...
... coldest spots in that hemi- sphere also are placed round and about the point which has been determined to be that of no variation . Everywhere indeed in North America we find the tempe- rature relatively lower than in Europe . Thus ...
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... colder portion ; we shall see reason to attribute the cooling of the solid portion of the crust of the globe mainly to radia- tion from its surface upwards towards the sky . Now as the interchange of heat between two bodies by radiation ...
... colder portion ; we shall see reason to attribute the cooling of the solid portion of the crust of the globe mainly to radia- tion from its surface upwards towards the sky . Now as the interchange of heat between two bodies by radiation ...
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... coldest after sunset , brings about just the reverse effect during the night . Let us now consider the mode in which the solar rays affect the surface of the land and of the sea in higher latitudes . In summer , of course , the same ...
... coldest after sunset , brings about just the reverse effect during the night . Let us now consider the mode in which the solar rays affect the surface of the land and of the sea in higher latitudes . In summer , of course , the same ...
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... coldest month is only 13o of Fahr . , enjoys in July a heat of 66 ° 4 ′ ; and at Yakoutzk , a Siberian town , in latitude 62 ° , at which the mean temperature of January is 36 ° 37 ′ below zero , the thermometer in July rises to nearly ...
... coldest month is only 13o of Fahr . , enjoys in July a heat of 66 ° 4 ′ ; and at Yakoutzk , a Siberian town , in latitude 62 ° , at which the mean temperature of January is 36 ° 37 ′ below zero , the thermometer in July rises to nearly ...
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