• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1928
• Subjects: Carbonic acid
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.387.8693; http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/056/mwr-056-02-0064.pdf

ture. It may be diaturbed by any temporary exceptional cause such as some peculiarity of the orbits of the sun, moon, or planets, a change in the solar energy, or a loss of transparency of the atmosphere on account of dust or carbonic-acid gas, an accumulation of ice in the polar region, or a recession of the glaciers of lower latitudes, and so on, when the temporary cause is removed and the conditions are restored to normal (if that be possible) the circulation will, in virtue of resilience, recover its normal condition; but it may oscillate about the normal in some period or periods of its own before resuming the normal state. * * * Both of these ideas are fully developed. Chapter VIII, 35 pages, discusses the transitory variations of pressure cyclones and anticyclones, and that section is followed by a discussion of the structure of cyclonic depressions in which some of the newer views find place. Finally Chapter X, 20 pages, on the earth’s atmosphere brings to a close Sir Napier’s exposition of the structure RECENT ADDITIONS The following have been selected froin among the titles of books recently received as representing those most likely to be useful to Weather Bureau officials in their meteorological work and studies: American railway engineering association.