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1. Some Inquiries concerning Terrestrial Temperature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2015

J. D. Forbes
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In this paper the writer starts by assuming Dove's Temperatures for the mean of every 10th parallel of latitude, from 75° N. to 40° S., to be correct. His object is to inquire how far the influence of the proportion of land and water in modifying the annual temperature of a given parallel is susceptible of being reduced to a formula.

The amount of land and water in different latitudes is first tabulated.

It is then shown, from an examination of the ordinary isothermal curves, and also from Dove's charts of the “Thermic Anomaly,” that the influence of land is to exalt the temperature of lower latitudes, and to depress that of higher latitudes.

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Proceedings 1858-59
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 4 , 1862 , pp. 173 - 174
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1862

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