Techniques of climatology
- Title
- Techniques of climatology [by] E.T. Stringer.
- Published by
- San Francisco, W.H. Freeman [1972]
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 539 pages illustrations; 27 cm
- Subject
- Contents
- OBSERVING THE WEATHER: Historical weather data -- Current weather data -- Reception of weather broadcasts -- The international meteorological observing network -- The international geophysical year -- The problem of gaps in the observing network -- Climatological instrumentation -- Some unusual climatic elements -- INTERPRETING THE OBSERVATIONS: The analysis of meteorological time-series -- Statistical analysis of scalar quantities -- Statistical analysis of vector quantities -- Statistical predictions in climatology -- Cartographic interpretation of climatic data -- Aids to facilitate climatological statistical analysis -- CLIMATOLOGICAL MODEL: Experimental models of phenomena of weather and climate -- Mathematical models of phenomena of weather and climate -- RADIATION CLIMATOLOGY: The physical nature of radiation -- Radiation measurements -- Radiation-measuring instruments -- Indirect estimation of radiation from theory -- Mapping the distribution of radiation -- The climatology of radiation balance -- Flqctuations in solar radiation and their climatic significance -- TEMPERATURE: Types of thermometer -- Errors in temperature measurement -- The physical picture of temperature -- The geographical pattern of temperature -- The statistical pattern of temperature -- The historical pattern of temperature -- CLOUDS AND CLIMATE: The study of individual clouds -- The study of the state of the whole sky -- Synoptic cloud reporting -- Cloud photography -- The climatological importance of cloud physics -- VISUAL CLIMATE AND OPTICAL CLIMATOLOGY: The theory of visibility -- Climatological representation of visibility observations -- Some visual-range phenomena -- Sky and landscape colors and atmospheric optical effects -- GEOGRAPHICAL CLIMATOLOGY: World studies of actual climates -- Regional studies of actual climates -- Methodological studies in geographical climatology -- Applied climatology.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [513]-516.