Author: DUFOUR, Louis (1832-1892):
Title: Recherches sur le foehn du 23 septembre 1866 en Suisse.
Description: *Bull. Soc. Vaud. Sci. Nat., vol. IX, no. 58: pp. 406-589, 3 fold. lithogr. graphs, tabs. in text. 8vo. Extract, plain new wrs., uncut. Little foxing to a few pages, very good otherwise. - Classic paper on the foehn winds in the Swiss Alps. The author discovered what was called later the "Dufour effect", the variation of temperature in relation to evaporation in alpine conditions.

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