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| Figures | ||
| Tables | ||
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Pt. I | Climate data | |
| 1 | Introduction | 3 |
| Climate and climatology | 3 | |
| History of climatology | 4 | |
| Scales of climate | 9 | |
| Units | 13 | |
| Climate change | 19 | |
| 2 | Measuring Climate Data | 23 |
| Climate stations | 23 | |
| Measurement accuracy | 31 | |
| Measurement of temperature | 35 | |
| Measurement of humidity | 39 | |
| Stevenson screen | 44 | |
| Measurement of wind | 47 | |
| Measurement of rainfall | 51 | |
| Archiving | 61 | |
| Relevance to climate change | 63 | |
| 3 | Estimating Climate Data | 64 |
| Estimating in general | 64 | |
| Errors of estimation | 67 | |
| Estimating screen temperature | 72 | |
| Estimating dewpoint temperature | 85 | |
| Estimating net irradiance | 89 | |
| Estimating evaporation | 105 | |
| Estimating and climate change | 106 | |
| 4 | Analysing Climate Data | 109 |
| Climate data | 109 | |
| Presentation of data | 110 | |
| Typical values | 117 | |
| Scatter of values | 126 | |
| Periodic variations | 134 | |
| Persistence | 135 | |
| Relationships | 138 | |
| Pt. II | Climate resources | |
| 5 | Solar Radiation | 147 |
| The nature of solar radiation | 147 | |
| Attention of solar radiation | 156 | |
| Measuring solar irradiance | 164 | |
| Estimating the solar irradiance of level ground | 175 | |
| Values of solar irradiance | 184 | |
| Solar irradiance of sloping surfaces | 193 | |
| Solar energy | 197 | |
| Radiation and climate change | 201 | |
| 6 | Wind | 202 |
| Causes of wind | 202 | |
| Surface winds | 211 | |
| Wind profile | 216 | |
| Time variations | 220 | |
| Frequencies of various wind speeds | 225 | |
| Gusts | 225 | |
| Estimating extreme winds | 231 | |
| Spatial variation of winds | 239 | |
| Windpower | 245 | |
| 7 | Precipitation | 250 |
| Introduction | 250 | |
| Precipitation processes | 252 | |
| Spatial variation of rainfall | 264 | |
| Estimating the total rainfall within a catchment | 270 | |
| Long-term, annual and seasonal rainfalls | 276 | |
| Monthly and short-term rainfalls | 283 | |
| Heavy rainfalls | 296 | |
| Dew | 300 | |
| Snow | 305 | |
| Precipitation and climate change | 310 | |
| 8 | Notes | 312 |
| Bibliography | 342 | |
| Index | 356 |
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