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THIS is not a manual so much as a criticism of the present science of meteorology. The author points out that the distribution of temperature in the lowest six miles or so of the atmosphere—the troposphere—does not fit the pressure distribution, the lowest pressures occurring in high latitudes where the air is coldest. Differences of pressure on the earth's surface must therefore be caused by differences of temperature at high levels in the stratosphere, which is relatively warm in high latitudes and over barometric depressions, and relatively eold in low latitudes and over anticyclones. His thesis is that this high-level heating is caused by corpuscular radiation from the sun; the main stream of corpuscles is directed by the earth's magnetism into two sub-polar rings which therefore form belts of low pressure, while local barometric depressions originate from stray streams of corpuscles.
A Manual of the Principles of Meteorology
By R. Mountford Deeley. Pp. xi + 285 + 4 plates. (London: Charles Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1935.) 15s. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 136, 205 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136205a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136205a0