The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 3. köideThomas Spencer Baynes A. and C. Black, 1875 |
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... pressures are over the continents of the nor- thern hemisphere , and the larger the continental mass the greater the pressure , and the lowest pressures are over the northern portions of the Atlantic and Pacific , South America and ...
... pressures are over the continents of the nor- thern hemisphere , and the larger the continental mass the greater the pressure , and the lowest pressures are over the northern portions of the Atlantic and Pacific , South America and ...
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... pressure , interesting examples of which occur in India , the Malayan Archipelago , and the Mediterranean , Black , and Caspian Seas . In many cases the lines of pressure follow more or less closely the contours of the Thus the ...
... pressure , interesting examples of which occur in India , the Malayan Archipelago , and the Mediterranean , Black , and Caspian Seas . In many cases the lines of pressure follow more or less closely the contours of the Thus the ...
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... pressure which are , as regards two - thirds of the globe , perhaps , as already stated , the most regular of recurring phenomena , and an explanation of which cannot but throw much light on many of the more important and difficult ...
... pressure which are , as regards two - thirds of the globe , perhaps , as already stated , the most regular of recurring phenomena , and an explanation of which cannot but throw much light on many of the more important and difficult ...
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... pressure falls to the morning minimum . Since the view propounded some years ago , that if the elastic force of vapour be sub- tracted from the whole pressure , what remains will show only one daily maximum and minimum , has not been ...
... pressure falls to the morning minimum . Since the view propounded some years ago , that if the elastic force of vapour be sub- tracted from the whole pressure , what remains will show only one daily maximum and minimum , has not been ...
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... pressure is in the. The relative humidity of the air may be regarded as the degree of approach to saturation . It is greatest near the surface of the earth during night , when the temperature , being at or near the daily minimum ...
... pressure is in the. The relative humidity of the air may be regarded as the degree of approach to saturation . It is greatest near the surface of the earth during night , when the temperature , being at or near the daily minimum ...
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