Methods In Climatology
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491_9781443725811
METHODS IN CLIMATOLOGY by VICTOR CONRAD. PREFACE: CLIMATE influences the surface of the earth, and this con versely, in its varieties, determines the climate under other wise equal conditions. This intimate mutual connection makes climatology and climatography appear as parts of geog raphy, because they are essentially necessary to describe the sur face of the earth and its changes. These ideas find their expression in the fact that generally in colleges and universities, climatology as a whole is treated in the geographical departments. Perhaps the dependent role of climatology may be attributable also to the fact that geographers have so greatly furthered this science. For the most part, climatographies have been written by ge ographers. Therefore, geographical methods are kept in the fore front, and specifically climatological methods are not so much used. It would be satisfying if this book offered a bridge connecting the two realms. To judge from the authors many years of experience in Europe, followed by a few years in the United States, the student in ge ography has perhaps sufficient knowledge of climatology, but he does not know how to deal with the original data of observations. He is, I should say, familiar with the results but not with the ways of getting them. This holds, particularly, for the different methods of mathematical statistics which can be adapted to an individual representation of the climates only thus can too-schematical descriptions be avoided. This book should make the student acquainted with a number of methods of mathematical statistics and theory of probability applicable at once to climatological problems. Approximations are used as much as possible in order to facilitate arithmetic. The student who is interested in the mathematical proofs and deriva tions as well as in their philosophical background must be referred to the special technical literature. The general introduction presents climatology as a world science, and its inter
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