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Title page 97
Relation Columbia River
Date 2005-02-22 to 2005-04-11
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
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Format Scanned from originals using Silverfast AI 6.0 on UMAX Powerlook III flatbed scanner. Scanned images saved as 16 bit grayscale tiffs. 201.315 kb 8 bit - Gray Gamma 2.2 - greyscale Omnipage 14 used to OCR 8 bit grayscale tiffs and generate text files for full text access. 16 bit grayscale tiffs edited in Photoshop 6.0: cropped, rotated, reduced in size, levels adjusted, bit depth reduced to 8 and JPEGs created.
Description Pacific Ocean and, moving southeastward, strike broadside on the Pacific Northwest coastline and the Cascade barrier. The moist, unstable air is lifted in passing over the Cascades and a very large proportion of the precipitable moisture is dropped west of the mountains. A brief glance at rainfall data verifies this phenomena. Tillamook, Oreg., on the coast. receives 94 inches per mainly in the form of snow in the fall, winter, and spring months. The resulting spring run-off from melting...
Identifier http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,1553

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