Climate

[Fr. climat; Gr. klima, klimatos, from klinō, keklimas, to make to bend, slope, or incline.] (Anc. Geog.) A region or zone of the earth's surface, said by the ancients to decline towards the equator, and incline towards the poles. IMG:content-0226.jpg:[graphic] lands have a tendency to produce extremes of climate. A place on the continents having a mean January tem- perature of 50° (a very warm temperature for that sea- son) is to be found only in warm latitudes, and one with a mean July temperature of 50° (a cold temperature for the season) only in the colder zones of the globe. The mean January temperature of New York is 3114° F., while the mean July temperature is 73°. Now, in North America the January isothermal line of 50° Climatic'ity, n. The property of climatizing. by the quicker and livelier state of the imagination - on the nutritive system, by a fuller condition of the body pulp adhering closely to the stone. from a perfect digestion; and on the nervous tempera- ment, by the more regular and natural performance of all the functions of the body the best. indication at all times of sound physical health. Climatʼic, Climatʼical, a . Pertaining to a climate; limited by a climate. Cli'matize, v . a . Same as ACCLIMATIZE, q. v. describe.] A description of climates. mates. Climatology, n. [Fr. climatologie , from Gr. klima , and logos , doctrine.] The science of climates; a discourse or treatise on climates. See CLIMATE. Cli'max, n. [Gr. klimaz , from klinō , to make to bend, slope, or slant. The highest point or degree; as, "The climax of earthly good." - Bishop Taylor . almost touches the Gulf of Mexico, and the July line of 50° pa es near the mouth of Mackenzie River, Climatography, n. [Gr. klima , and graphein , to or the arctic circle, - the extreme winters and intense summers causing this great change. In Asia, again, the Climatological, a . Pertaining to climatology. January line of 50° runs just north of Canton, near 260 Climatologist, n. One skilled in the study of cli- N., and the July line of 50° touches the Arctic Ocean at the mouth of the Lena, in 720 N., making a difference of 46° of latitude, or nearly 3,000 miles, as the effect of the land on the climate. The waters of the ocean re- main unfrozen even far into the arctic, unle crowded with lands, their perpetual movement tending to pro- duce a uniformity of temperature over the globe; and hence winds from the oceans or any large body of water are moderating and never very cold. They produce what is called an insular climate. Absence of land from high latitudes is equivalent to an absence of the source of extreme cold; and from tropical latitudes, that of ex- treme heat; and the sinking of all lands would diminish greatly both extremes. But sinking high-latitude lands also diminish the extreme of heat, since the lands become very much heated in summer, and this heat is diffused by the winds. The mean temperature of the Northern hemisphere is stated by Dove at 60° F., and that of the Southern at 56° F., while the extremes for the globe, taking the annual means, are 80° F. and zero . If there were no land, the mean temperature would probably be but little above what it is now, or not far from 60° for the whole globe. (Physiol.) The faculty with which man can adapt himself to every contingency of climate, and not only ex co.