452 I. Р. Koch. 
A comparison with the results of the Germaniaexpedition suggests 
that the continental character of the climate becomes more pro- 
nounced towards the north, which circumstance is to be explained 
through the ice conditions of the coast sea. Further, a comparison 
with the observations from the two stations, Pustervig (Nov. 1907— 
May 1908) and Borg!) (Oct. 1912—April 1913) situated about 60 and 
100 km west of Danmarks Havn, shows the quite natural state of 
affairs that the continental character of the climate, also towards 
west, becomes more pronounced. 
The yearly mean temperature is, as far as Danmarks Havn is 
concerned, — 12° to — 13° (Centigrade), but already at the margin 
of the inland ice, about 100 km further west, we encounter winter 
temperatures which are about 10° lower than at the coast, and a 
yearly mean temperature which may be estimated at - 16° to + 18° 
(Station Borg 1912/13). Only during the three summer months do 
we find positive mean temperatures (in the case of Danmarks Havn: 
June + 1°.1, July + 49.4, August + 2°.2); all the other months have 
negative mean temperatures, which in the winter fall to — 25° to 
+ 35°. The highest temperature measured at Danmarks Havn was 
+ 17°.1 (July 7th 1908); the lowest was + 40°.9 (March 11th 1907). 
The lowest temperature measured at Borg was about — 50°. 
The chief direction of the wind is round northwest; further- 
more, the winds between west and north are the only ones which 
blow with considerable force. The meteorological journals of the 
Danmark-Ekspedition show that for more than half the time we 
have had winds between west and north, and that for nearly a fourth 
of the time we have had calms; for the remainder of the time, in 
other words not even ‘a fourth of the time, we had wind directions 
between northeast, east, southeast, southwest. 
The northwesterly winds increase both in force and frequency 
the higher one gets: from an altitude of 1000 m and upwards they 
prevail almost entirely. These northwesterly land winds are dry and 
comparatively warm; they blow irregularly, in gusts, and may some- 
times assume the character of fohn winds. 
The easterly winds are, in the main, not frequent, yet for the 
months of May, June and July they cover more than a fourth of the 
time. These winds, blowing from the sea, are moist. They blow 
evenly and with little force, on an average perhaps 3 to 4m per 
second, and rarely more than 6m per second. The velocity decreases 
in an upward direction; as a rule the easterly wind does not reach 
higher than 300m. When these winds, saturated with moisture, 
1) The observations from Borg have not been published. They will appear later 
on in Medd. om Grenl. 
