Note 95 — Chapter I · THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
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Modern meteorological studies would seem to show that the ancients were not far astray in associating the etesians of Greece with the monsoons of the Indian Ocean: “the etesiens [sic] are not local winds, due to limited and local causes; they belong to the great system of the proasiatic low pressure and are connected with the Indian monsoons” (J. S. Paraskévopoulos, The Etesiens, in: Monthly Weather Review, vol. 50, Washington, D. C., 1922, p. 420).