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Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Part II Natural Science 1884

1884

The next feature to be noticed is that throughout the winter months the axis of average high pressure on the plains an‘ plateaux of India occupies nearly the same situation as that of low pressure Rigorously speaking any such representation must of course involve an element of unreality which is the greater the greater the difference of land levels in the area embraced in the chart ; and whor [...] But it is not only in North-Western India even that barometric minima are occasionally filrmed in the winter months in the arse of the rain of the 10th to 13th January '878 it first appeared on the western half of the Deccan p1a4peau ; in that of the 10th February 1879 a long trough-shaped depression rain through the heart of India from Belgaum to Lucknow and in that of the 15t► to 18th Febru [...] But south of the Salt Rafige and on the plains of the Eastern Punjab the rainfall of February and March exceeds that of April Still further to the south-east throughout the greater part of the Gangetic plain the maximum occurs still earlier viz. [...] The area above defined as that of the winter rains is identical with that in which as has long been known the relative humidity of the air instead of diminishing towards the interior of the country increases with the increasing distance from the sea-coast. [...] In the first placej it is to be noticed that the increase of the relative humidity of the later months as we proceed from Behar towards the Punjab is due solely to the fall of temperature ; the absolute humidity being almost constant ; but the latter is decidedly lower on the high ground of Central India and Rajputana south of the Gangetic plain than on t he latter and in the Punjab.
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Pages
56
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120250
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Frontmatter
i-iii The Natural History Secretary view
I—The Theory of the Winter Rains of Northen India—By Henry F. Balnford F.R.S. President Asiatic Society of Bengal Meteorological Repoter to the Government of India
1-16 The Natural History Secretary view
II.—Descriptions of Some New Asiatic Diurnal Lepidoptera; Chiefly from Specimens Contained in the Indian Museum Calcutta—By Frederic Moore F. Z. S. A. L. S. Communicated by the Natural History Secretary
16-52 The Natural History Secretary view

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