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Some Air Temperature Readings at several stations on Sloping Ground

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

Robert S. Vinson
Affiliation:
South-Eastern Agricultural College, Wye.
Edward J. Russell
Affiliation:
South-Eastern Agricultural College, Wye.

Extract

It is well known that the mean temperature falls as the elevation increases, and partly on this account certain crops cannot profitably be produced on high land. But it is also recognised that low lying land is subject to lower minimum temperatures, and is therefore more liable to frost, than land higher up, and low situations are consequently avoided by fruit and early potato growers. Few actual temperature readings have, however, been published.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1907

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References

page 221 note 1 Theophrastus mentions this fact (lib. V. C. XX.) and also Pliny (lib. XVII. CC. 69, 70); other old references are given in Boussingault, Chimie Agricole, II. 378, and in Warington, Physical Properties of Soil, pp. 184 et seq.

page 222 note 1 Readings spoiled by wind on several nights, and therefore omitted from this Table.