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DR. WOEIKOF, who is one of the meteorologists of the modern school, has long entertained a deep conviction that meteorology ought not to limit itself to a mere observation of those few instruments which for nearly fifty years have constituted the plant of meteorological Observatories. In the development of its general laws and the application of them to forecasts of weather, it must widen the circle of its observations, and take into account those factors upon which weather and climate depend in each given locality. For the past fifteen years he has devoted his time to the study of local climates and their dependence upon local causes, such as the local deflections of the paths of cyclones and nticyclones; the proximity of seas, steppes, marshes, and forests, and the local heating and cooling of the ground. His chief work, published in Russian, entitled “The Climates of the Globe,” is most valuable, on account of the wide Knowledge it evinces of the various circumstances on which climate depends, especially with regard to the immense plains of Russia.
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K., P. Snow-Covering and the Weather . Nature 33, 379–380 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033379a0
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