JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. American Geographical Society is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Geographical Review. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 169.229.32.137 on Thu, 8 May 2014 23:08:26 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and ConditionsGEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS but rather on facts, many of which are illustrated in the 134 diagrams and photographs or are summarized in the 48 tables contained in the book. Indeed, the facts are numerous and their presentation is commendably straightforward. It is not unreasonable to believe that by its modern comprehensive treatment many will consider "Climates of the Past" as a companion volume to C. E. P. Brooks's "Climate Through the Ages," long a classic in the field of paleoclimatology.-CALVIN J. HEUSSER ARIZONA CLIMATE. Edited by CHRISTINE R. GREEN and WILLIAM D. SELLERS. viii and 503 pp.; maps, diagrs., bibliogr. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 1964. $1o.oo. 124 x 9 inches. Arizona, a large and decidedly diversified state, has recently aroused widespread interest, partly as a result of its sharp growth in population, its rapid industrial development, and its noteworthy increase in educational and recreational facilities. The climate of Arizona varies widely within the state, and there are also strong monthly, seasonal, and annual contrasts. The massive volume reviewed here presents, with perhaps unique thoroughness, many aspects of the climate of each of 91 observation stations manned by the United States Weather Bureau, the Reclamation Service, the Forest Service, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, several mining companies, two railway lines, and a number of private individuals. The book is a fine example of cooperation, under the leadership of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Arizona, in making the climatic data more useful. Various data for each day of each year of record have been entered on 1.5 million IBM punch cards and fed into computers, which have yielded much of the information presented here for each station. About seven-eighths of the volume consists of tables of mean and extreme temperatures, precipitation, humidity, and number of days with various temperatures, with the monthly figures for each year of record. A short section describes each observation station and its climate. Six maps are of Arizona as a whole, showing the location of the climatic stations, the topographical features and section boundaries of the six regions recognized, the average annual precipitation, the average January and July temperatures, and the average daily maximum temperature-humidity index for July. Five more maps are of the entir...
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