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Contents
CHAPTER II | 11 |
CHAPTER III | 22 |
THE DISTRIBUTION OF TEMPERATURE | 39 |
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adiabatic advection air masses airplane aloft altitude amount anticyclone appears atmosphere circulation clouds coast cold air cold front colder component condensation convection cooling cumulus curve decrease diagram direction distribution earth effects energy equation forecasting freezing geostrophic wind given ground heat height horizontal increase isallobaric isentropic charts isentropic surfaces isobars isotherms lapse rate latitude layer lower mean meteorological moisture motion moving Northern Hemisphere observed obtained occur ocean particles polar potential temperature precipitation radiation rain region relative humidity represented Rossby saturation shown in Fig slope snow specific humidity speed stations stratosphere stratus summer temperature inversion thunderstorms tion tropical air tropical cyclones tropopause troposphere trough turbulence U.S. Weather Bureau United unstable upper upper-air upward vapor pressure velocity vertical warm air warm front warmer water vapor wave wavelengths wedge westerlies winter
Bibliographic information
| Title | General Meteorology |
| Author | Horace Robert Byers |
| Publisher | McGraw-Hill, 1944 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Feb 10, 2009 |
| Length | 645 pages |
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