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SWEDEN lies in the region of prevailing southwesterly winds that blow along the margin of the nearly permanent area of low barometric pressure centred near Iceland. It appears from certain windroses, given on pages 52 and 53 of Axel Wallén's work, that it is only in the south—in Götaland—that there is a general predominance of south-westerly winds in the surface layers of the atmosphere approaching that which is to be found in the British Isles. Elsewhere, effects due to the distribution of land and water, and to the contours of the land, modify the general drift from the dominant quarter. Thus, along the eastern coast, both in January and July, the wind tends to follow the trend of the coast-line and therefore blows most frequently from southerly or northerly directions.
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NEWNHAM, E. The Climate of Sweden*. Nature 127, 610–611 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127610b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/127610b0