The Andes of southern Peru, geographical reconnaissance along the seventy-third meridian . 6 Cloudiness CZI Clear MM EBil MM 7-5-10 WSM C™erS Fig. 89—Cloudiness at the desert station of Fig. 88 (near Caraveli), for thesummer (January to March) of 1913. morning northerly winds were frequent. It is also noteworthythat the directions of the upper currents of the atmosphere asrecorded by the motion of the clouds was generally between N. andE. Plainly we are in the border region where climatic influencesare carried over from the plateau and combine their effects withthose from P
The Andes of southern Peru, geographical reconnaissance along the seventy-third meridian . 6 Cloudiness CZI Clear MM EBil MM 7-5-10 WSM C™erS Fig. 89—Cloudiness at the desert station of Fig. 88 (near Caraveli), for thesummer (January to March) of 1913. morning northerly winds were frequent. It is also noteworthythat the directions of the upper currents of the atmosphere asrecorded by the motion of the clouds was generally between N. andE. Plainly we are in the border region where climatic influencesare carried over from the plateau and combine their effects withthose from Pacific sources. Arequipa, farther south, and at analtitude of 7,550 feet, resembles Chosica. For the years 1892 to1895 its mean rainfall was inches. Besides the seasonal variations of precipitation there arelonger periodic variations that are of critical importance on theCoast Kange. At times of rather regular recurrence, rains thatare heavy and general fall there. Every six or eight years is saidto be a period of rain, but the rains are also said to occur some-times at intervals of fo
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