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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• David Winston Heron

Titel

Antarctic Claims

Ist Teil von

• Foreign Affairs, 1954

Erscheinungsjahr

1954

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• METEOROLOGICAL observation in the Antarctic is of great importance to long-range weather prediction throughout the Southern Hemisphere. The wild and frigid storms originating over the great glacial plateaus in the interior make themselves felt as far north as the Tropic of Capricorn: it has been estimated that the immense Antarctic ice-cap results in a difference of 10° Fahrenheit between the mean temperatures of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.