Abstract
IN the volume mentioned below, all the mean values of the meteorological elements which constitute the climate of the country in question are brought together, these values being deduced from a long series of observations terminating with the year 1900. When it is mentioned that the country embraces 33°of latitude, the surface of which slopes from the shores of the Atlantic on the east to the snow-clad summits of the central range of the Andes on the west, the reader must not be surprised if he finds great differences in the atmospheric conditions that prevail in the various parts of the Republic.
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L., W. The Climate of South America 1 . Nature 69, 230 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069230a0
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