A Meteorological Cross Section: The Koppen Birthday Volumes
1933; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 23; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/209633
ISSN1931-0846
Autores Tópico(s)Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
ResumoN the occasion his eighty-fifth birthday the meteorological world has given the venerable Professor Wladimir Koppen three rounds greetings and an encore in the form three Koppen volumes and a supplementary number Gerlands Beitrage zur Geophysik.1 Thirty geophysical journals, published in thirteen different countries, and 127 geophysicists of the entire earth and several generations joined in sending these birthday greetings. The papers, in German, English, French, Italian, or Esperanto, many them with summaries in two or three languages, fill 1545 pages. A complimentary volume was published in honor Dr. Koppen on his eightieth birthday,2 but so active had he been since that time, directing and writing a goodly portion the Koppen-Geiger Handbuch der Klimatologie, now appearing, as well as continuing his output special articles and a second edition his book, Grundrisse der Klimakunde, that this new and greater tribute was eminently deserved. Though the contributors chose only the subjects that they thought Dr. Koppen would enjoy, the field interest our dean meteorologists is so broad that the volumes constitute a monumental cross section present-day meteorology. More than half the 12I articles have some geographic flavor, and there are 144 maps among the 398 illustrations. Some these papers interest to geographers will be summarized.
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