On the Effect of Topography on the Precipitation in Japan. 3 



Climatological Table of Japaii'^ recently issued by the Central 

 Meteorological Observatoiy. 



Since it was our main purpose to study the effect of the 

 discontinuity of wind velocity on land and sea, only those stations 

 were chosen which are situated not far from the open coast facing 

 either to the Pacific or to Japan Sea. The stations of which the 

 yearly courses of rainfall were to be studied were grouped into the 

 following six regions: 



I. Akita and Niigata, representing the Northern Japan 

 Sea coast. 



II. Miyako, Isinomaki and Tyôsi, the Northern Pacific 

 coast. 



III. Husiki, Kanazawa and Hukui, the central Japan Sea 

 coast. 



Fig. 1. 



1) Kisy.j-Zassan (UM^M) Vol. I. No. 4, (1918). 



