The new air world

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The text presents an accessible introduction to meteorology, tracing how atmospheres form and behave and explaining light, heat, temperature, and condensation. It surveys observational tools and techniques, including instrument shelters, kites, and weather maps, and teaches how to read daily synoptic charts to recognize and forecast cyclones, cold waves, tornadoes, and frost. It discusses global wind and pressure patterns, climate and its modification by land, ocean, and human activity, regional climatic suitability for health and agriculture, and the organization and history of the national weather service, aiming to make practical weather knowledge usable by lay readers and students.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Unless otherwise expressed in this book it will be understood that all temperatures are recorded by the Fahrenheit scale.

[2] The author wishes that this were literally true, for he believes that no great man or great woman ever was born from a mother with a painted face, dyed lips, false hair, and a body pitifully distorted by ungracefully ambling about in high heeled shoes. The power of suggestion is so great in its influence on the plastic mind of youth that a mother who is little else than a perambulating falsehood will leave descendants wanting in many if not all of the attributes of manly and womanly virtues.

[3] John Wiley & Sons, New York.

[4] “Principles of Human Geography”, Huntington and Cushing. John Wiley & Sons, New York.