| 398 pages
...revolutionary rapidity of the air-stream, the latter appears to have an opposite motion, and seems to blow from the north-east in the northern hemisphere, and from the south-east in the southern half of the earth. AVhile the cold currents from the poles are thus creating the tradewinds towards... | |
| Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Thomson - Botany - 1855 - 604 pages
...revolution round its own axis) is a maximum. They therefore lag behind, as it were, and appear to blow from the north-east in the northern hemisphere, and from the south-east in the southern hemisphere. The presence of land interferes with the regularity of the trade- winds; and where it occurs... | |
| Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Thomson - Botany - 1855 - 308 pages
...revolution round its own axis) is a maximum. They therefore lag behind, as it were, and appear to blow from the north-east in the northern hemisphere, and from the south-east in the southern hemisphere. The presence of land interferes with the regularity of the trade- winds; and where it occurs... | |
| 1858 - 396 pages
...revolutionary rapidity of the air-stream, the latter appears to have an opposite motion, and seems to blow from the north-east in the northern hemisphere, and from the south-east in the southern half of the earth. While the cold currents from the poles are thus creating the tradewinds towards... | |
| Home tutor - 1862 - 530 pages
...revolutionary rapidity of the air-stream, the latter appears to have an opposite motion, and seems to blow from the north-east in the northern hemisphere, and from the south-east in the southern half of the earth. While the cold currents from the poles are thus creating the trade winds towards... | |
| Children's literature, English - 1867 - 632 pages
...course of nature. The streams in the upper half of the globe represent the trade winds, which blow from the north-east in the northern hemisphere, and from the south-east in the southern hemisphere of the globe. At the equator they are exactly opposed to one another, and blow due north... | |
| Elias Loomis - Meteorology - 1868 - 326 pages
...must be produced on the south side of the equator, and thus originates a system of currents flowing from the northeast in the northern hemisphere, and from the southeast in the southern hemisphere. 146. Upper Current in the Equatorial Regions. — The mean temperature of the surface air... | |
| William Stanley Jevons - Logic - 1870 - 420 pages
...to blow from east to west. These tendencies are combined together, and cause the trade-winds to blow from the NorthEast in the northern hemisphere, and from the South-East in the southern hemisphere. The law according to which the temperature of the air is governed in any part of the earth... | |
| William Blasius - Meteorology - 1875 - 386 pages
...suddenly but gradually over us, it will assume a westerly direction gradually, and appear thus to come from the north-east in the northern hemisphere and from the south-east in the southern hemisphere. The farther from the north it comes, the more easterly will it appear to us. If such a... | |
| WILLIAM BLASIUS - 1875 - 360 pages
...suddenly but gradually over us, it will assume a westerly direction gradually, and appear thus to come from the north-east in the northern hemisphere and from the south-east in the southern hemisphere. The farther from the north it comes, the more easterly will it appear to us. If such a... | |
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