Climate of the Alps
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Climate of the Alps
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The climate of the Alps is the climate, or average weather conditions over a long period of time, of the exact middle Alpine region of Europe. As air rises from sea level to the upper regions of the atmosphere the temperature decreases. The effect of mountain topography on prevailing winds is to force warm air from the lower region into an upper zone where it expands in volume at the cost of a proportionate loss of heat, often accompanied by the precipitation of moisture in the form of snow, rai
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_the_Alps
date created:
2002-09-01T21:44:53Z
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2024-09-09T03:56:45Z
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