By Harold Glasser
People were either interested and tortured via questions relating to our destiny and destiny for no less than so long as we now have possessed the power to proportion our concepts. less than the simplest of conditions, those mus- ings contain asking a chain of questions about the current, previous, and destiny. the place are we? How did we get the following? the place can we seem to be heading? the place will we are looking to pass? How will we get there from right here?
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Water rapidly runs off a slope but sits around longer on a flatter place and soaks into the ground. For this reason, precipitation falling on a mountainside is generally less effective than an equivalent amount falling on a relatively flat valley floor. Precipitation patterns themselves are also directly affected by the presence of mountains. Consider a north-south mountain range receiving westerly winds, such as the Sierra Nevada of the western United States. Air is forced upward as it approaches the mountains, and as it ascends, it cools adiabatically, becomes saturated with water, and releases some of its water content as precipitation on the windward side of the Sierra.
30 Major Determinants of Climate Major Determinants of Climate The elements of climate (sun, wind, and water) are complexly interrelated. Incident solar energy produces thermal patterns that, coupled with the earth’s rotation and movements around its sun, generate the prevailing winds and ocean currents. These currents of air and water in turn strongly influence the distribution of precipitation, both in time and space. The amount of solar energy intercepting a unit area of the earth’s surface varies markedly with latitude for two reasons.
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