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Facts On File
Language
English
Pages
135

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Cover of: Droughts
Droughts
2003, Facts On File
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1998, Facts On File
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: What is a drought? 1
WHEN THE RAINS FAIL 3
Air movements in the tropics and subtropics 3
George Hadley and Hadley cells 8
Subtropical deserts 10
Adiabatic warming and cooling 12
Desert life 14
Polar deserts 20
Precipitation, evaporation, sublimation, and ablation 24
Evaporation, condensation, and theformation of clouds 28
Ocean currents and sea-surface temperature 31
The Coriolis effect 32
El Nino and La Nfia 36
Jet streams and storm tracks 43
Blocking highs 47
Vorticity and angular momentum 48.

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New York
Series
Dangerous weather

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
551.57/73
Library of Congress
QC929.24 .A45 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
135 p. :
Number of pages
135

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL663997M
Internet Archive
droughts00alla
ISBN 10
0816035199
LCCN
97009544
Library Thing
3850943
Goodreads
3649091

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