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274 the value of the variation of temperature, if the carbonic acid decreases to 0.67 or increases to 1.5 times the present quantity. In the first column is printed the latitude; in the second and third the nebulosity over the continent and over the ocean; in the fourth the extension of the continent in hun- dredths of the whole area. After this comes, in the fifth and sixth columns, the reduction factor with which the figures in the table are to be multiplied for getting the true variation of temperature over continents and over oceans, and, in the seventh column, the mean of both these correction factors. In the eighth and ninth columns the temperature variations for $\text{K}=0.67$, and in the tenth and eleventh the corre- sponding values for $$\text{K}=1.5$$ are tabulated.

The mean value of the reduction factor N. of equator is for the continent (to 70° N. lat.) 1.098 and for the ocean 0.927, in mean 0.996. For the southern hemisphere (to 60° S. lat.) it is found to be for the continent 1.095, for the ocean 0.871, in mean 0.907. The influence in the southern hemisphere will, therefore, be about 9 per cent, less than in the northern. In consequence of the minimum of nebulosity between 20° and 30° latitude in both hemispheres, the maximum effect of the variation of carbonic acid is displaced towards the equator, so that it falls at about 25° latitude in the two cases of $$\text{K}=0.67$$ and $\text{K}=1.5$.

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