The Climate Near the Ground

Anyone who merely turns the pages of this new edition will find that 48 percent of the fig­ ures are familiar to him from the third edition. But whoever reads it will discover that no three consecutive pages of text have been transferred unaltered. The enormous development that has taken place since 1950, particularly the surprising extension in the practical applications of micrometeorology, have made it necessary to rewrite the book. In producing this work, I had in mind two aims which we...