Tropical Nature, and Other EssaysMacmillan and Company, 1878 - 356 pages |
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... Effects of Vegetation on Climate - Short Twilight of the Equatorial Zone - The Aspect of the Equatorial Heavens -Intensity of Meteorological Phenomena at the Equator - Concluding Remarks . · pages 1-26 II . EQUATORIAL VEGETATION . The ...
... Effects of Vegetation on Climate - Short Twilight of the Equatorial Zone - The Aspect of the Equatorial Heavens -Intensity of Meteorological Phenomena at the Equator - Concluding Remarks . · pages 1-26 II . EQUATORIAL VEGETATION . The ...
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... Effects of Vegetation on Climate - Short Twilight of the Equa- torial Zone - The aspect of the Equatorial Heavens - Intensity of meteor- ological phenomena at the Equator - Concluding Remarks . IT is difficult for an inhabitant of our ...
... Effects of Vegetation on Climate - Short Twilight of the Equa- torial Zone - The aspect of the Equatorial Heavens - Intensity of meteor- ological phenomena at the Equator - Concluding Remarks . IT is difficult for an inhabitant of our ...
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... effect of the sun's rays independently of altitude . In England the noonday sun in the month of June rarely incon ... effects , produced by the same amount of sun - heat poured upon the earth in different latitudes is due to a ...
... effect of the sun's rays independently of altitude . In England the noonday sun in the month of June rarely incon ... effects , produced by the same amount of sun - heat poured upon the earth in different latitudes is due to a ...
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... effects which are so puzzling when the altitude of the sun or the indications of the thermometer are alone con- sidered . Whenever , as is sometimes the case , exceptional cold occurs near the equator , it can almost always be traced to ...
... effects which are so puzzling when the altitude of the sun or the indications of the thermometer are alone con- sidered . Whenever , as is sometimes the case , exceptional cold occurs near the equator , it can almost always be traced to ...
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Alfred Russel Wallace. almost neutralised the usual effects of tropical heat although the weather was bright and sunny . But the wind , coming direct from the southern ocean during its winter without acquiring heat by passing over land ...
Alfred Russel Wallace. almost neutralised the usual effects of tropical heat although the weather was bright and sunny . But the wind , coming direct from the southern ocean during its winter without acquiring heat by passing over land ...
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