Meteorology: The Science of the Atmosphere

Chapter 34: Transcribers’ Notes

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About This Book

This work offers a systematic introduction to the atmosphere, explaining its composition, vertical structure, and physical processes that produce weather. It surveys observational tools and techniques, from surface instruments to kites and sounding balloons, and explains cloud types, precipitation mechanisms, winds, and storm dynamics. Separate sections treat atmospheric electricity, optical and acoustic phenomena, and the factors that determine climate. Practical chapters describe weather analysis, forecasting, and specialized applications to agriculture, commerce, navigation, aviation, military operations, and health. The text concludes with discussions of weather modification, lesser atmospheric phenomena, a glossary of terms, and numerous illustrations to clarify concepts.

Transcribers’ Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

In versions of this book that do not support accented letters, “Canon” (with a tilde over the middle “n”) is spelled “Canyon”.

Page 103: For consistency with the preceding enumerated definitions, the Transcriber added extra spacing after the last of them, just before “We have given”.

Page 348: In some versions of this eBook, the chemical symbols for methane and phosphine are represented as CH4 and PH3.

Page 367: “The scale runs from 0 = calm to = hurricane” is missing the value for hurricane, which is “12”.