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climate the total environmental effect of ambient temperature, barometric pressure, radiation, oxygen concentration, water precipitation, humidity, wind speed, wind direction and sunlight hours or cloud cover. Called also weather. climate classes includes tropical, semitropical, desert, arid, semiarid, temperate, subarctic, arctic, polar. climate envelope the range of climatic variation in which a species can persist in the face of competitors, predators and disease. climate impact includes overall statements of total effect of climate such as wind-chill index, temperature-humidity index, effective temperature. |
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Finally, they refused to emulate the lifestyles of the Inuit, who were able to survive the rigors of a climatically harsher Greenland. The relationship between BPb, weather, and soil moisture is thus studied in geographically and hence climatically diverse locations. Diebedo Francis Kere was the first person from his poverty-stricken West African village ever to have gone to university, and it was when he was an architectural student in Berlin that he conceived the idea of building a village school to replace the old one, which was decaying, dark and climatically inappropriate, so it was little used, and the village continued to slumber slowly downhill. |
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