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Author : Wilfrid George Kendrew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Climatology
ISBN : UOM:39015004532985
Author : W. G. (Wilfrid George) Kendrew
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1290335958
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : W. G. Kendrew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1052809491
Author : W. G. Kendrew
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0332716759
Excerpt from The Climates of the Continents A work of this kind must be essentially a compilation from such materials as statistics, more or less adequate, maps showing certain factors of climate, and regional descriptions; the result is largely dependent on the nature of the original sources. A glance at the following pages will show that no uniformity of treatment has been achieved or even attempted. The principle followed has been to present the main features of the climate of each region considered especially in relation to the greater units of the globe. It is' clearly impossible to give any detailed local descriptions in a book of this scope. But it is hoped that the general account may constitute a framework into which detailed local descriptions may be intelligently fitted, a convenient skeleton to carry the details necessary for the special purposes of the meteorologist, the botanist, the zoologist, and the geographer. As it seemed desirable to make each chapter as far as possible complete in itself, repetition has been in some places inevitable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Alexander Knox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107600713
Originally published in 1911, this book provides a detailed guide to African climate conditions. Intended to be a practical introduction, rather than a meteorological treatise, the text is notable for its use of clear language and a broad variety of statistical information. It contains four main sections, covering North Africa, Western Tropical Africa, Eastern Tropical Africa, and South Africa. Each section contains illustrative material, including tables, charts and maps. This is a highly organised and informative volume that will be of value to anyone with an interest in African geography and the development of physical geography in general.
Author : Jack E. Hobbs,J. A. Lindesay,Howard A. Bridgman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015046014851
This book fills a significant gap in the climatological literature, providing a comprehensive assessment of the climates of the southern hemisphere. It is the first book of its type to provide a consolidated view of the climates of southern Africa, Australia, South America and Antarctica, addressing past and future climates as well as those of the present. Present climates are considered in the first part of the book, to provide a background against which past and future climates can be investigated. Emphasis in the book is on the inter-relatedness of global, synoptic and smaller scale aspects of southern hemisphere continental climates. Discussion of topical, but fundamental, concerns including El Niño, global warming and climate variability is incorporated throughout the text. The study of the climatology of the southern hemisphere is fundamental to our understanding of climates and climatic issues across the globe. The book will therefore be of particular interest to scientists interested in climate with a focus beyond the southern hemisphere, as well as those with a specialised interest in all or part of the southern hemisphere. It is also a significant addition to the literature for climate researchers as well as for undergraduate students studying climatology in the atmospheric, environmental and earth sciences.
Author : Wilfrid George Kendrew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Climatology
ISBN : UCAL:$B24037
An in depth study of the different climates and factors involved in the climates of different countries of the world. The author uses maps, charts, and graphics in his presentation of the detailed information.
Author : Danuta Martyn
Publisher : Elsevier Publishing Company
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015029192799
Despite the great quantity of climatological literature, there are few books describing climates from the geographical point of view. The present volume is an attempt to fill this gap. The first part discusses the principal processes and factors shaping and differentiating climatic conditions, the distribution of climatic elements and the regionalisation of climates. The second and main part examines the climates of the continents and oceans, the continents being treated in considerable detail and the oceans more generally. Each section begins with a climatic review of the whole continent, followed by a detailed discussion of the climatic conditions of large countries or groups of smaller ones. Subsections discuss such factors as length of daylight, solar radiation, air pressure systems and winds, tempatures, humidity cloudiness, and precipitation experienced by regions. This volume serves as a useful guide for geographers and environmental scientists, climatologists, and the many nonprofessionals interested in the world and its climates.
Author : Heinrich Walter,E. Harnickell,D. Mueller-Dombois
Publisher : Springer
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1975-02-28
Category : Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822012230553
Supplement to the Vegetation Monographs
Author : H. Walter,E. Harnickell,D. Mueller-Dombois
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642809022
The climate-diagram maps contained in this volume are to serve for a quick orientation of the climate and its zonation in the various world regions, which are discussed in Volumes I-IX of this series. Some of these regional vegetation monographs are already published, others are still in preparation. The climate diagrams used in this volume are from the «Klimadiagramm-Weltatlas» by H. WALTER and H. LIETH, prepared with additional help of E. HARNICKELL (VEB Gustav-Fischer-Verlag, Jena 1960-1967). A few new climate-diagrams had to be drafted for Canada, Venezuela and Central Asia. On the maps, the individual climate-diagrams are placed, wherever possible, directly on the location of the station. However, in some cases the diagrams had to be shifted a little in order to accommodate as many as permitted by the geographic scale of the map. For coastal stations, it was best to move them onto the space provided by the ocean. Wherever diagrams were widely displaced, an arrow indicates the location of the station. The more exact location of each station is given in the «Klimadiagramm-Weltatlas», where the stations are shown with their respective number on the reverse side of each map. The number of climate-diagrams in the Atlas (approx. 8,000) is much greater than those that can be shown here. This volume is therefore not a substitute for the «Klimadiagramm-Weltatlas».
Author : J.E. Oliver,Rhodes W. Fairbridge
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1028 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015011861146
Today's greater public awareness of how climate affects our quality of life and environment has created an increasing demand for climatological information. Now this information is available in one convenient, accessible source, The Encyclopedia of Climatology. This comprehensive volume covers all the main subfields of climatology, supplies data on climates in major continental areas and explains what is known about the causes of climatic processes and changes. Contents include articles on bioclimatology, El Niño, climatic models, world regional climates, civilization and climate, climatic variations and the greenhouse effect.
Author : Robert G. Bailey
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781493905249
Global warming and human-driven impacts are changing the World’s ecological zones. This book applies the principles described in Bailey’s Ecosystem Geography: From Ecoregions to Sites, 2nd ed. (Springer 2009, 1st ed. 1996) to describe and characterize the major terrestrial and aquatic ecological zones of the Earth. Bailey’s system for classifying these zones has been adopted by major organizations such as the U.S. Forest Service and The Nature Conservancy and this book is a significant contribution to a long tradition of classifying and studying the world’s ecological regions or ecoregions. It includes two color maps that show the major ecoregions of the continents and oceans. Also included are: - 106 illustrations with 55 in full color - A new chapter on mountains is included. - There are new sections that address concerns about how eco regions are changing under the relentless influence of humans and climate change - Another new feature is the discussion of using eco regional patterns to transfer research results and select sites for detecting climate change effects on ecosystem distribution - Use of ecoregional patterns to design monitoring networks and sustainable landscapes - Fire regimes in different regional ecosystems and their management implications.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Climatology
ISBN : 0416881009
Author : Kristen Rajczak Nelson
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781482408010
Driving through the northeastern part of the United States during the fall is much different than traveling through the Southwest. Vermont will have many trees with their leaves changing color, while a state like Arizona will be dry, hot, and not have much vegetation. These states are in different climate zones! Readers learn the main features of Earth’s climate zones, including the tropical, temperate, polar, Mediterranean, highland, and arid zones. Full-color photographs and maps of these regions aid the main content in supporting both science and geography curricula.
Author : John J. W. Rogers,M. Santosh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 0195347331
To this day, there is a great amount of controversy about where, when and how the so-called supercontinents--Pangea, Godwana, Rodinia, and Columbia--were made and broken. Continents and Supercontinents frames that controversy by giving all the necessary background on how continental crust is formed, modified, and destroyed, and what forces move plates. It also discusses how these processes affect the composition of seawater, climate, and the evolution of life. Rogers and Santosh begin with a survey of plate tectonics, and go on to describe the composition, production, and destruction of continental and oceanic crust, and show that cratons or assemblies of cratons became the first true continents, approximately one billion years after the earliest continental crust evolved. The middle part of the book concentrates on supercontinents, beginning with a discussion of types of orogenic belts, distinguishing those that formed by closure of an ocean basin within the belt and those that formed by intracontinental deformation caused by stresses generated elsewhere. This information permits discrimination between models of supercontinent formation by accretion of numerous small terranes and by reorganization of large old continental blocks. This background leads to a description of the assembly and fragmentation of supercontinents throughout earth history. The record is most difficult to interpret for the oldest supercontinent, Columbia, and also controversial for Rodinia, the next youngest supercontinent. The configurations and pattern of breakup of Gondwana and Pangea are well known, but some aspects of their assembly are unclear. The book also briefly describes the histories of continents after the breakup of Pangea, and discusses how changes in the composition of seawater, climate, and life may have been affected by the sizes and locations of continents and supercontinents.