

Taiwan, 35 



Talc, 359, 360 



Tall Timber Research Station, Tallahassee, 



Fla., 307 

 Tanganyika, 220 

 Tanzania, Fig. VII-10 

 Tarawa (island), 87 

 Taxonomic identification of plankton, 228, 



230 

 Tay-Sachs disease, 374 

 Teal, John M., 3ol, 363 

 Teleconnections, 85, 88, 100 

 Telemetry 



animal ecology, 302 



energy relations of animals in the 

 ecosystem, 289 



field studies of animals, 289 

 Temperate zone 



agricultural practices, 295 



drought, 165 



forests, 292, 298-301 



hurricanes, 123, 124, 135 

 Temperature 



bacterial oxydation, 362 



climatic records, 51, 52, 



cloud-seeding, 176 



cloud-top, 175 



CO. content of atmosphere and, 64, 67, 

 Fig. Ill— 9, Fig. 111-10, 72, 332 



deep earth processes, 22 



derived from sea-core dating, Fig. Ill— 3 



earth and above it, 89 



historic records on, 58 



human beings, 374, 376 



northern hemisphere, Fig. Ill — 4, 57, 

 Fig. III-8, Fig. III-9, Fig. 111-10 



nucleating agent effectiveness, 174 



sounding by satellites, Fig. IV-6 



worldwide effect of dust, 194 

 Temperature, Atmospheric, 11, 12 



distribution, Fig. 1-5 



effect of CO., 119 



effect on clouds, 141, 174 



effect on mosquitoes, Fig. IX-3 



fluctuations, tropical vs. temperate 

 species, 298, Fig. IX-11 



forecasting, 94, 100, 102 



forest fires, 306, 307, 311, 312 



formation of hailstones, Fig. V-ll 



global variations, 55 



in ecosystems, 285, Fig. IX-5, 300, 301 



patterns, 102 



plants, 287, 288, 289 



Project STORMFURY, 129 



records, 51, 52 



smog, 337 



tropical areas, 188 



urban areas, 113, 114, 116, 119 

 Temperature, Water 



Antarctica, 83, 231-232 



Great Lakes, 261 



lakes, 254 



thermal influence, Fig. VIII-13 



sea-surface, Fig. Ill— 2, Fig. IV-1 

 drought causes, 165 

 north Pacific, 78 

 tropical regions, 85, Fig. IV-5 



water cycle, 200, 201, 202 

 forest areas, 206 

 Terrestrial ecosystems, 277-315 

 Tertiary era, 63, 358 

 Texas 



earth processes, Fig. II-7 



ecosystems, 306, 308 



groundwater, 203, 204 



range management, 74 



severe storms, 123, 124, 140, 147, 154 

 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 204 

 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Tex., 306 

 Thailand, 184, 185 



aquaculture, 238 

 Thalassemia, 373 

 Thera (volcano), Crete, 44 

 Thermal bar 



Great Lakes, 268, 270 



lakes, 255, 258, 259 

 Thermal engine, 65-66, 67, 77, 123 

 Thermal plume in lake water, 259 

 Thermal pollution, see Pollution, Thermal 

 Thermocline, 84, 87 

 Thermohaline alterations, 83 

 Thermonuclear energy, 5, 8, 25 

 Thermosphere, 3, 11 

 Thomas, Heriberto V., 388 

 Thomson, J. J., 10 

 Thorium, 30, 53 

 Thorpe, Steven A., 106, 109 

 Thunderstorms 



hailstorm type, 154, Fig. V-13 



lightning and, 157, 160 



prediction, 93, 94, 95, Fig. V-10 



tornadoes and, 137, 138, 139, 144 



tropical areas, 186, 187 

 Tibet, 184, 186 

 Tidal waves, 35 



earthquakes and, 81 



volcanic eruptions and, 44 

 Tides, 81, 123 



atmospheric, 58 



gauges, 87 



sea-air system and, 78, 81 

 Time 



factor in water cycle, 202 



landscape stability, 211 

 Tin deposits, 32 

 TNT, 153 



Tonga, Friendly Isls., Pac. Ocean, 35 

 Tornadoes, 137-148 



effect on water quality, 212 



hurricanes and, 123 



occurrence, 132 



predictions, 94, 98 

 Torrey Canyon, S.S. (ship), 361 

 Toxic substances 



agriculture and, 278 



changes in ecosystems, 280 



Lake Washington, 272 



see also Pollution, Chemical 

 Toyama, T., 388 

 Trace elements, 34, 296 

 Trade winds 



dust from Africa, 191, 192, 193, 358 



equatorial belt of wetness, 165 



hurricanes and, 123 



pesticides spread 



precipitation 

 Transparency 



decrease in Great L.i! i 



measurements in Lai-. I 

 Fig. VII1-16, 272 

 Transpiration in plants, 287 

 Transportation 



hazards due to fog, Fig. VI-8 



impact of climatic change, 58, 59 

 Transportation, U.S. Department of, 



Fig. VI-11 

 Transverse Ranges, Cal., 29 

 Tree rings: climatic change shown by, 58, 



59-61, Fig. III-S 

 Trees, see Forests; Vegetation 

 Triggering agents 



climatic events, 55, 69 



convection, 119 



earthquakes, 37, 39 



gravity waves and turbulence, 106 



precipitation, lead-contaminated, 118 



waves, 111 



waves and wind speed, 110 

 Trophic dynamics 



aquaculture and, 252 



estuaries, 248-253 



Great Lakes, 225-229, 230, 261 



world ocean, 236-247 

 Trophic levels 



aquatic, Fig. VIII— 1, 226, 227, 228 



estuaries, 248 

 Tropic of Cancer: atmospheric dust, 191 

 Tropical medicine, 364-370 

 Tropical regions 



air-sea rhythms, 84-88 



animal diseases, 217 



atmospheric composition, 330 



climatic changes, 57, 133 



drought, 220 



effects of dust, 191-194 



human adaptation in, 378-379 



natural air contaminants, 330, 344 



radiative balance, 68 



soil studies, 291, 295-297 



storms 



see Hurricanes; Typhoons 



weather forecasting, 90, 91, 95, 98, 

 184-190 

 Tropopause, 105 

 Troposphere, 3, 11, 69 



atmospheric circulation studies in, 90, 105 



drift of pollutants, 190, 357 



dust in, Fig. Ill 10, 193 



tropical weather, 186 

 Trout 



freshwater, 225, 251, 261, 262, 263, 266, 

 271 



sea, 253 

 Trout, Dennis, 105 

 Trypanosomiasis, American, see Chagas' 



disease 

 Tsetse fly, 344 

 Tsunamis, see Tidal waves 

 Tundra biomes, Fig. IX-15, 314, 315 

 Tungsten, 31, 90 

 Turbidity 



atmosphere, 339 



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