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SNOWFALL is scarcely less important than rainfall in the general economy of the earth's surface, and has an even greater latitudinal range over that surface, being entirely excluded only from the inter-tropical lowlands, whereas rain is nearly excluded from the polar regions as well as very high mountains in all latitudes. It is strange that so little attention has been paid to the study of the geographical distribution of snow as such apart from its rainfall equivalent when melted. One welcomes, therefore, a short paper, “Sulla distribuzione geografica della neve,” by G. Ferrara (La Meteorologia pratica, Anno iv., No. 2, 1923), who gives a general survey of snowfall conditions for the whole globe, together with special statistics, with a map, for Italy.
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BONACINA, L. The Geographical Distribution of Snowfall. Nature 113, 210 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113210a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/113210a0