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THIS text-book of meteorology is written for readers in the southern hemisphere, where, as the author truly points out, European and American text-books are to some extent inapplicable by reason of the fundamental difference in the wind circulation around centres of high and low pressure in the two hemispheres. The examples introduced for purposes of illustration in the present work are mainly drawn frorn Australian conditions, though the author's wide knowledge of world climatology is also freely used. The 300 or so pages of the book are divided into twenty-six chapters, which cover the practical work at observing stations, as well as the more theoretical aspects of dynamical meteorology and climatology. The author has achieved his object in producing a work which will give the reader of fair intelligence, but without advanced knowledge of mathematics or physics, a good general grounding in the subject. In this connection the pages devoted to pressure gradient and Ferret's law may be particularly commended. One or two parts are less satisfactory, and in particular the reviewer suggests that in a future edition the chapter devoted to upper-air research might be recast, giving less space to the methods employed, and more to the very important results which have been obtained during the past few years in this field. At the same time, a little more attention might be devoted throughout the book to defining the technical terms used, and to explaining in more detail a few of the less obvious types of diagram, which do not at first glance convey much meaning to the unaccustomed reader.
Australian Meteorology: A Text-book, including Sections on Aviation and Climatology.
By Dr. Griffith Taylor. Pp. xi + 312. (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1920.) Price 12s. 6d. net.
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D., J. Australian Meteorology: A Text-book, including Sections on Aviation and Climatology . Nature 106, 402 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106402a0
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