The Andes of southern Peru, geographical reconnaissance along the seventy-third meridian . 8 Fig. 79—Wind roses for Mollendo. The figures are drawn from data in PeruvianMeteorology (1892-1895), Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College,Vol. 39, Pt. 2, Cambridge, Mass., 1906. Observations for an earlier period, 1890, (Id. Vol. 39, Pt. 1, Cambridge, Mass. 1899) record S. E. wind at2 p. m. 97 per cent of the observation time. gradients by night. To this circumstance, in combination withthe low temperature of the ocean water and the direction of theprevailing wi
The Andes of southern Peru, geographical reconnaissance along the seventy-third meridian . 8 Fig. 79—Wind roses for Mollendo. The figures are drawn from data in PeruvianMeteorology (1892-1895), Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College,Vol. 39, Pt. 2, Cambridge, Mass., 1906. Observations for an earlier period, 1890, (Id. Vol. 39, Pt. 1, Cambridge, Mass. 1899) record S. E. wind at2 p. m. 97 per cent of the observation time. gradients by night. To this circumstance, in combination withthe low temperature of the ocean water and the direction of theprevailing winds, is due the remarkable development of the sea-breeze, without exception the most important meteorological fea-ture of the Peruvian Coast. Several graphic representations areappended to show the dominance of the sea-breeze (see wind roses 130 THE ANDES OF SOUTHERN PERU for Callao, Mollendo, Arica, and Iquique), but interest in thephenomenon is far from being confined to the theoretical. Every-where along the coast the vira&on, as the sea-breeze is called incontradistinction to the te
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