Wetter und Wettervorhersage (Synoptische Meteorologie)

Abstract

THERE is an excellent arrangement in Austria I under which from time to time one of the most promising of their meteorologists, after a period of official work in the State service, is appointed to the professorship of meteorology at Innsbruck, where he has leisure for the closer study of that branch of the subject in which he has become specially interested. This results not only in additions to our knowledge on the frontiers of the subject, but also in text-books which give in collective form and in logical sequence a summary of our knowledge over some sector of the meteorological circle. Notable examples are the “Meteorological Optics” of Perntner and the “Dynamical Meteorology” of Exner. The present officer at Innsbruck, Prof. Defant, adds as his contribution a book on weather and weather forecasting which is a development of a small book prepared and published originally in 1916–17.

Wetter und Wettervorhersage (Synoptische Meteorologie).

Von Prof. Dr. Albert Defant. Zweite, vollständig umgearbeitete Auflage. Pp. vii + 346. (Leipzig und Wien: Franz Deuticke, 1926.) 18 gold marks.