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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Acid Rain
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    Chapter 2 Adiabatic Phenomena
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    Chapter 3 Aerosols
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    Chapter 4 Africa: Climate of
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    Chapter 5 Agroclimatology
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    Chapter 6 Airmass Climatology
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    Chapter 7 Air Pollution Climatology
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    Chapter 8 Albedo and Reflectivity
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    Chapter 9 Aleutian Low
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    Chapter 10 Angular Momentum, Angular Velocity
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    Chapter 11 Antarctic Climates
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    Chapter 12 Applied Climatology
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    Chapter 13 Archeoclimatology
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    Chapter 14 Architecture And Climate
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    Chapter 15 Arctic Climates
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    Chapter 16 Arid Climates
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    Chapter 17 Aridity Indexes
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    Chapter 18 Art and Climate
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    Chapter 19 Asia, Climates of Siberia, Central and East Asia
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    Chapter 20 Asia, Climate of South
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    Chapter 21 Asia, Climate of Southwest
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    Chapter 22 Atmosphere
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    Chapter 23 Atmospheric Circulation, Global
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    Chapter 24 Atmospheric Nomenclature
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    Chapter 25 Atmospheric Nuclei and Dust
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    Chapter 26 Australia And New Zealand, Climate of
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    Chapter 27 Azores (Bermuda) High
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    Chapter 28 Beaufort Wind Scale
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    Chapter 29 Bioclimatology
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    Chapter 30 Blizzard Climatology
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    Chapter 31 Blocking
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    Chapter 32 Boundary Layer Climatology
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    Chapter 33 Bowen Ratio
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    Chapter 34 Budyko, Mikhail Ivanovich (b. 1920)
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    Chapter 35 Carbon-14 Dating
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    Chapter 36 Centers of Action
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    Chapter 37 Central America and the Caribbean, Climate of
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    Chapter 38 Climate Affairs
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    Chapter 39 Climatic Change and Ancient Civilizations
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    Chapter 40 Climate Change and Global Warming
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    Chapter 41 Climate Change and Human Health
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    Chapter 42 Climate Change Impacts: Potential Environmental and Societal Consequences
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    Chapter 43 Climate Classification
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    Chapter 44 Climate Comfort Indices
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    Chapter 45 Climate Data Centers
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    Chapter 46 Climate Hazards
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    Chapter 47 Climate Modeling and Research Centers
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    Chapter 48 Climate Variation: Historical
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    Chapter 49 Climate Variation: Instrumental Data
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    Chapter 50 Climate Vulnerability
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    Chapter 51 Climate Zones
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    Chapter 52 Climatology
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    Chapter 53 Climatology, History of
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    Chapter 54 Cloud Climatology
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    Chapter 55 Coastal Climate
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    Chapter 56 Commerce and Climate
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    Chapter 57 Condensation
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    Chapter 58 Continental Climate and Continentality
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    Chapter 59 Coral Reefs and Climate
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    Chapter 60 Coriolis Effect
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    Chapter 61 Crime and Climate
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    Chapter 62 Cultural Climatology
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    Chapter 63 Cycles and Periodicities
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    Chapter 64 Degree Days
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    Chapter 65 Desertification
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    Chapter 66 Deserts
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    Chapter 67 Determinism, Climatic
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    Chapter 68 Dew/Dewpoint
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    Chapter 69 Doldrums
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    Chapter 70 Drought
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    Chapter 71 Dynamic Climatology
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    Chapter 72 Easterly Waves
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    Chapter 73 Ekman (Spiral) Layer
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    Chapter 74 Electromagnetic Radiation
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    Chapter 75 El NiÑo
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    Chapter 76 Energy Budget Climatology
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    Chapter 77 Europe, Climate of
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    Chapter 78 Evaporation
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    Chapter 79 Evapotranspiration
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    Chapter 80 Extratropical Cyclones
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    Chapter 81 Ferrel Cell
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    Chapter 82 Flohn, Hermann (1912–1997)
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    Chapter 83 Fog and Mist
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    Chapter 84 Folklore, Myths and Climate
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    Chapter 85 Frost
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    Chapter 86 Entilli, Joseph
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    Chapter 87 Geomorphology and Climate
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    Chapter 88 Global Environmental Change: Impacts
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    Chapter 89 Greenhouse Effect and Greenhouse Gases
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    Chapter 90 Hadley Cell
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    Chapter 91 Hadley, George, 1685–1768
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    Chapter 92 Hail
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    Chapter 93 Hare, F. Kenneth (1919–2002)
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    Chapter 94 Heat Index
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    Chapter 95 Heat Low
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    Chapter 96 Holocene Epoch
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    Chapter 97 Horse Latitudes
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    Chapter 98 Howard, Luke (1772–1864)
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    Chapter 99 Human Health and Climate
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    Chapter 100 Von Humboldt (Baron), Friedrich Heinrich Alexander (1769–1859)
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    Chapter 101 Humid Climates
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    Chapter 102 Humidity
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    Chapter 103 Hydroclimatology
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    Chapter 104 Hurricanes — Data and Data Sources
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    Chapter 105 Ice Ages
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    Chapter 106 Icebergs and Heinrich Events
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    Chapter 107 Icelandic Low
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    Chapter 108 Indian Summer
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    Chapter 109 Intergovernmental Panel in Climate Change (IPCC)
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    Chapter 110 Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)
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    Chapter 111 Inversion
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    Chapter 112 “ISO” Terms
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    Chapter 113 Jet Streams
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    Chapter 114 Katabatic (Gravity) Winds
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    Chapter 115 Kepler’s Laws
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    Chapter 116 KÖppen, Wladimir Peter
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    Chapter 117 Krakatoa Winds
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    Chapter 118 Kyoto Protocol
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    Chapter 119 Lakes, Effects on Climate
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    Chapter 120 Lamb, Hubert H. (1914–1997)
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    Chapter 121 Land and Sea Breezes
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    Chapter 122 Landsberg, Helmut E. (1906–1985)
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    Chapter 123 Lapse Rate
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    Chapter 124 Latent Heat
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    Chapter 125 Lightning
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    Chapter 126 Literature and Climate
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    Chapter 127 Little Ice Age
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    Chapter 128 Local Climatology
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    Chapter 129 Local Winds
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    Chapter 130 The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO)
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    Chapter 131 Maritime Climate
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    Chapter 132 Mather, John R. (1923–2003)
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    Chapter 133 Maunder, Edward Walter (1851–1928), and Maunder Minimum
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    Chapter 134 Maury, Matthew Fontaine (1806–1873)
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    Chapter 135 Medieval Warm Period or “little Climatic Optimum”
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    Chapter 136 Mediterranean Climates
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    Chapter 137 Microclimatology
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    Chapter 138 Middle Latitude Climates
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    Chapter 139 Milankovitch, Milutin (1879–1958)
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    Chapter 140 Military Affairs and Climate
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    Chapter 141 Models, Climatic
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    Chapter 142 Monsoons and Monsoon Climate
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    Chapter 143 Montreal Protocol
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    Chapter 144 Mountain and Valley Winds
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    Chapter 145 Mountain Climates
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    Chapter 146 National Center for Atmospheric Research
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    Chapter 147 National Climate Data Center/Data Sources
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    Chapter 148 North America, Climate of
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    Chapter 149 North American (Canadian) High
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    Chapter 150 North Atlantic Oscillation
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    Chapter 151 Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction
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    Chapter 152 Ocean Circulation
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    Chapter 153 Orographic Precipitation
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    Chapter 154 Oscillations
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    Chapter 155 Ozone
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    Chapter 156 Pacific (Hawaiian) High
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    Chapter 157 Pacific North American Oscillation (Pna)
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    Chapter 158 Paleoclimatology
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    Chapter 159 Palmer Index/Palmer Drought Severity Index
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    Chapter 160 Phase Changes
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    Chapter 161 Precipitation
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    Chapter 162 Precipitation Distribution
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    Chapter 163 Pressure, Surface
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    Chapter 164 Pressure, Upper Air
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    Chapter 165 Quasibiennial Oscillation
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    Chapter 166 Radar, Climatic Applications
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    Chapter 167 Radiation Climatology
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    Chapter 168 Radiation Laws
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    Chapter 169 Rainforest Climates
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    Chapter 170 Rainshadow
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    Chapter 171 Reanalysis Projects
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    Chapter 172 Relative Humidity
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    Chapter 173 Religion and Climate
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    Chapter 174 Rossby Wave/Rossby Number
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    Chapter 175 Satellite Observations Of The Earth’S Climate System
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    Chapter 176 Savanna Climate
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    Chapter 177 Scales of Climate
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    Chapter 178 Sea Ice and Climate
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    Chapter 179 Sea Level Rise
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    Chapter 180 Seasonal Affective Disorder
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    Chapter 181 Seasonal Climate Prediction
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    Chapter 182 Seasonality: Astronomic Forcing
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    Chapter 183 Seasons
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    Chapter 184 Sensible Heat
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    Chapter 185 Siberian (Asiatic) High
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    Chapter 186 Singularities
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    Chapter 187 Snow and Snow Cover
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    Chapter 188 Solar Activity
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    Chapter 189 Solar Constant
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    Chapter 190 Solar Flare
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    Chapter 191 Solar Radiation
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    Chapter 192 Solar Wind
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    Chapter 193 South America, Climate of
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    Chapter 194 Southern Oscillation
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    Chapter 195 Sports, Recreation and Climate
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    Chapter 196 Spring Green Wave
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    Chapter 197 Standard Atmosphere
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    Chapter 198 Statistical Climatology
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    Chapter 199 Sunspots
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    Chapter 200 Synoptic Climatology
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    Chapter 201 Taiga Climate
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    Chapter 202 Teleconnections
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    Chapter 203 Temperature Distribution
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    Chapter 204 Terrestrial Radiation
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    Chapter 205 Thornthwaite, Charles W. (1899–1963)
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    Chapter 206 Thunder
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    Chapter 207 Thunderstorms
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    Chapter 208 Tornadoes
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    Chapter 209 Tourism and Climate
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    Chapter 210 Trade Winds and the Trade Wind Inversion
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    Chapter 211 Tree-Ring Analysis
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    Chapter 212 Tropical And Equatorial Climates
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    Chapter 213 Tropical Cyclones
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    Chapter 214 Troposphere
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    Chapter 215 Tundra Climate Location and definition
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    Chapter 216 Turbulence and Diffusion
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    Chapter 217 Ultraviolet Radiation
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    Chapter 218 Units and Conversions
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    Chapter 219 Urban Climatology
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    Chapter 220 Vegetation and Climate
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    Chapter 221 Volcanic Eruptions and Their Impact on the Earth’S Climate
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    Chapter 222 Vorticity
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    Chapter 223 Walker Circulation
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    Chapter 224 Water Budget Analysis
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    Chapter 225 Weather
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    Chapter 226 Wind Chill
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    Chapter 227 Wind Power Climatology
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    Chapter 228 Winds and Wind Systems
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    Chapter 229 Zonal Index
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Title
Encyclopedia of World Climatology
Published by
Springer Science & Business Media, April 2008
DOI 10.1007/1-4020-3266-8
ISBNs
978-1-4020-3264-6, 978-1-4020-3266-0, 978-1-4020-4870-8
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Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 4%
Malaysia 1 2%
Italy 1 2%
Unknown 49 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 21%
Researcher 9 17%
Student > Master 6 11%
Student > Bachelor 5 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 6%
Other 8 15%
Unknown 11 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 14 26%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 15%
Environmental Science 7 13%
Engineering 5 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 4%
Other 6 11%
Unknown 11 21%