Climate and Weather in the Tropics

ACADEMIC PRESS INC.

Penerbit : Academic Press

Tahun : 1979

"The years since 1950 have seen the propulsion of tropical countries around the globe into positions of prime importance in relation to world politics. economics and the future development of countries outside the tropics. Air communication and space observations have closed vast distances on earth. so that an increasingly coherent understanding of the world’s climate and weather has been achieved, and it has become more and more clear that tropical atmospheric regimes, with their internal convolutions, affect not only areas within the tropical boundaries but eventually the entire earth. Our expanded understanding of the tropics along with their enhanced political importance, then, are the chief reasons for the appearance of this volume. Furthermore, my earlier book “Tropical Meteorology” (1954) needed to be updated and actually replaced."

Pengarang