Index:Hunt - The climate and weather of Australia - 1913.djvu

Title	The Climate and Weather of Australia
Author	Henry Ambrose Hunt, Griffith Taylor, E. T. Quayle
Year	1913
Publisher	Government Printer
Location	Melbourne
Source	djvu
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Validated in	December 2019

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CLIMATE AND WEATHER OF AUSTRALIA.

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CONTENTS.

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Climate—
I.	—Size of Continent and Effect on Climatic Variation	7
II.	—March of the Temperature	8
III.	—Barometric Variation—
	General	12
	Local	13
	Paths of the Highs and Lows	14
IV.	—Distribution of the Dominant Winds—
	Trade Winds	17
	Land and Sea Breezes	18
V.	—Rainfall Monthly and Seasonal Distribution	19
VI.	—Humidity and Wet Bulb Temperatures	22
VII.	—Special Factors influencing Climate—
	Ocean Currents	23
	Topography	24
VIII.	—Chief Climatic Regions—
	Northern Monsoonal Summer Rains	26
	Central Arid Region	29
	Intermediate Region of Uniform Rains	33
	Winter Rain Region	37
Weather—
IX.	—Characteristics of Drought Years	40
X.	—Characteristics of Local Rain—
	(A) Rainfall in the West Australian Gold-fields	52
	(B) Flood Rains—
	(1) Victoria	56
	(2) Darling	58
	(3) Queensland	59
	(4) Western Australia	60
XI.	—Special Type of Weather—
	(A) Western Australian Hurricanes	61
	(B) Hurricanes in South-West Pacific	66
	(C) Southerly Bursters	70
XII.	—(A) Forecasting	72
	(B) Types of Weather	75