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Note: Contents PREFACE PART I. THE BASIC TECHNIQUES CHAPTER I Observing the Weather Historical Weather Data Current Weather Data Reception of Weather Broadcasts The International Meteorological Observing Network The International Geophysical Year The Problem of Gaps in the Observing Network Climatological Instrumentation Standard Instruments Instruments for Special Investigations Some Unusual Climatic Elements Chemical Climate Radio Climate Surface Elements and Factors of Climate Derived Elements and Factors of Climate Notes to Chapter 1 CHAPTER 2 Interpreting the Observations The Analysis of Meteorological Time-Series Statistical Analysis of Scalar Quantities Frequency Analysis Probability Analysis The Relationships Between Scalar Quantities Statistical Analysis of Vector Quantities Statistical Predictions in Climatology Cartographic Interpretation of Climatic Data Aids to Facilitate Climatological Statistical Analysis Notes to Chapter 2 CHAPTER 3 Climatological Models Experimental Models of Phenomena of Weather and Climate Experimental Models of Cloud Formation Experimental Models of Airflow over Barriers Experimental Models of the General Circulation of the Atmosphere Mathematical Models of Phenomena of Weather and Climate Statistical Models Numerical Prediction Models 1. Models of Temperature and Precipitation Distributions on Hemispheric or Regional Scales 2. Models of Elements of the Atmospheric Circulation 3. Models of Atmospheric Processes 4. Models of Weather Phenomena Notes to Chapter 3 PART II. SOME APPLICATIONS OF THE BASIC TECHNIQUES Radiation Climatology The Physical Nature of Radiation Radiation Measurements Radiation-Measuring Instruments Standard Radiation-Measuring Instruments Nonstandard and Experimental Instruments Indirect Estimation of Radiation from Theory Mapping the Distribution of Radiation The Climatology of Radiation Balance Fluctuations in Solar Radiation and Their Climatic Significance Notes to Chapter 4 CHAPTER 5 Temperature Types of Thermometer Errors in Temperature Measurement The Physical Picture of Temperature The Geographical Pattern of Temperature The Statistical Pattern of Temperature The Historical Pattern of Temperature Notes to Chapter 5 CHAPTER 6 Clouds and Climate The Study of Individual Clouds The Study of the State of the Whole Sky Synoptic Cloud Reporting Cloud Photography The Climatological Importance of Cloud Physics Notes to Chapter 6 CHAPTER 7 Visual Climate and Optical Climatology The Theory of Visibility Climatological Representation of Visibility Observations Some Visual-Range Phenomena Sky and Landscape Colors and Atmospheric Optical Effects Notes to Chapter 7 PART III. GEOGRAPHICAL CLIMATOLOGY CHAPTER 8 Geographical Climatology World Studies of Actual Climates Regional Studies of Actual Climates Methodological Studies in Geographical Climatology Applied Climatology Notes to Chapter 8 POSTCRIPT APPENDIXES ABBREVIATIONS AND SYMBOLS FURTHER READINGS INDEXES

Note: Table of Contents Part 1 Supplementary Papers and Items Introduction Walter Brian Harland Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 3-7, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.01 The pre-Pleistocene Phanerozoic time-scale — a review Richard St John Lambert Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 9-31, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.02 The pre-Pleistocene Phanerozoic time-scale — further data Richard St John Lambert Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 33-34, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.03 Notes on Pleistocene radiometric age-determinations itemized in this volume Nicholas John Shackleton Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 35-37, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.04 Isotope dating in the U.S.S.R.—an essay-review Nicholas Rast Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 39-49, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.05 Items - Introduction Edward Howel Francis Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 51-52, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.06 Items - Items 338-404 Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 53-111, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.07 Part 2 Towards a Pleistocene Time-scale Summary Percy Evans Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 123-124, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.08 1. Introduction Percy Evans Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 125-126, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.09 2. The Pleistocene palaeomagnetic time-scale Percy Evans Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 127-151, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.10 3. Paleomagnetic dating Percy Evans Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 152-162, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.11 4. The 40 000 year cycle Percy Evans Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 163-180, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.12 5. A possible framework for a Pleistocene classification Percy Evans Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 181-183, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.13 6. The climatic sequence in Atlantic and Caribbean deep-sea cores Percy Evans Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 184-216, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.14 7. The deep-sea cores of the Pacific Percy Evans Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 217-228, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.15 8. The climatic sequence in cores from the Mediterranean Sea, Indian Ocean and Antarctic Ocean Percy Evans Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 229-232, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.16 9. Radiometric dates Percy Evans Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 233-256, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.17 10. The climatic sequences in lacustrine boreholes Percy Evans Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 257-265, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.18 11. Dates of high-sea-levels derived by extrapolariation from radiometric ages Percy Evans Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 266-270, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.19 12. Some problems of chronology and classification Percy Evans Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 271-281, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.20 13. River terraces and shore-lines in southern England Percy Evans Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 282-300, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.21 14. East Anglia and Essex Percy Evans Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 301-304, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.22 15. The Oxford area Percy Evans Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 305-309, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.23 16. The Severn and Avon terraces and glaciations Percy Evans Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 310-320, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.24 17. Other regions Percy Evans Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 321-325, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.25 18. Summary and conclusions Percy Evans Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 326-333, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.26 19. Acknowledgements Percy Evans Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 334, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.27 Appendix: New evidence from the equatorial Pacific Percy Evans Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 335-340, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.28 References Percy Evans Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 341-351, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.29 Grid-references and co-ordinates of some places mentioned in sections 13 to 16 Percy Evans Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, 352, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.30 Plate: A tentative Pleistocene chronology Percy Evans Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 5, NP, 1 January 1971, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.1971.005.01.31

Note: A. Smoothed downwards continuations and the Bjerhammar sphere B. Numerical evaluations about the elimination of the iteration procedure term in the geodetic boundary value problem C. Considerations about the mixed boundary value problems of the geodesy D. Downwards continuations and the proof of the convergence of the spherical - harmonic development for a potential in the exterior of a regular surface E. The global embedding term in the space - time relation between the geodetic measurements and the geological masses