Climatology

Abstract

THE authors of this book set out to provide an introduction to climatology for the student of meteorology. Since the public which they aim at interesting is meteorologically educated, the authors are free to use meteorological terms, and they have made use of this freedom to write a book on climatology which is rather different from any other book on this subject. In the course of the last two decades, synoptic meteorology has been steadily progressing, mainly along the lines of analysis of weather charts developed at Bergen in Norway. Weather is now interpreted in terms of air masses and of the fronts which separate them, with an enormous gain in understanding of the physical processes underlying the changes of weather with place and time.

Climatology

By Prof. Bernhard Haurwitz Prof. James M. Austin. Pp. xi + 410 + 17 plates. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1944.) 4.50 dollars.