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generic name for winds blowing from a warm region toward an area of low 

 pressure in a normally colder region. 



Sun dog. — A mock sun or parhelion. 



"Sun draunng water." — The sun is popularly said to be "drawing water" when 

 crepuscular rays extend down from it toward the horizon. The sun's rays, 

 passing through interstices in the clouds, are made visible through illumination 

 of particles of dust in the atmosphere along their paths. (See part VI.) 



Tahlecloth. — A sheet of cloud that sometimes spreads over the flat top of 

 Table Mountain, near Cape Town. 



Tehuantepecer. — A .strong to violent northerly wind of Pacific waters off 

 southern Mexico and northern Central America, confined mostly to the Gulf 

 of Tehuantepec, and occurring during the colder months. 



WiJlij-ivilly. — A violent storm of wind and rain on the northwest coast of 

 Australia. (The name is also applied in some parts of Australia to a local 

 dust whirl.) 



Woolpack. — Cumulus. 



PART IX. A SELECTED LIST OF REFERENCE BOOKS 

 ELEMENTARY AND POPULAR METEOROLOGY 



Abercromby, Ralph. Weather ; the nature of weather changes from day to day. 



Revised by A. H. R. Goldie. London. 1934. 

 Angot, Alfred. Traite elementaire de meteorologie. 4th ed. Paris. 1928. 

 Brooks, Charles F. Why the weather? Rev. and enl. New York. 1935. 

 Brunt, David. Meteorology. London. 1928. 



Geddes, A. E. M. Meteorology ; an introductory treatise. London. 1921. 

 Humphreys, W. J. Weather proverbs and paradoxes. 2d ed. Baltimore. 



1934. 

 Pick, W. H. A short course in elementary meteorologv. 4th ed. London. 



1933. (Great Britain, Meteorological Office. M. O. 247.) 

 Shaw, Sir Napier. The drama of weather. Cambridge. 1933. 

 Talman, Charles Futzhugh. A book about the weather. New York. 1935. 



(Previously pul)lished as: The realm of the air. Indianapolis. 1931.) 



PRACTICAL METEOROLOGY AND WEATHER FORECASTING 



Bliss, George S. Weather forecasting. 5tli ed. Washington. 1929. (U. S. 



Weather Bureau. Bull. 42.) 

 Defant. Albert. Wetter und wettervorhersage. 2d ed. Leipzig. 1926. 

 Gi*eat Britain, Meteorological Office. A barometer manual for the use of seamen ; 



a text book of marine meteorology. 11th ed. London. 1932. 

 Great Britain, Meteoi'ological Office. A handbook of weather, currents, and 



ice for seamen. London. 1935. 

 Great Britain, Meteorological Otfice. The Weather map ; an introduction to 



modern meteorology. 2d ed. London. 1930. 

 Great Britain, Meteorological Office. Meteorological glossarv. 2d ed. London. 



19.30. 

 Namias, Jerome, and others. An introduction to the study of air mass analysis. 



Milton, Mass., The American Meteorological Society, 1936. 

 Shaw, Sir Napier. Forecasting weather. 2d ed. London. 1923. 

 Smith, L. A. Brooke. Wireless and weather; and aid to navigation. London. 



1928. (Great Britain, Meteorological Office, M. O. 297). 

 Tannehill, I. R. Preparation and use of weather maps at sea. Washington. 



1935. (U. S. Weather Bureau. Circular R.) 

 Weightman, R. Hanson. Forecasting from synoptic weather charts. Washing- 

 ton. 1936. (U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Miscellaneous publ. 236.) 



ADVANCED METEOROLOGY 



Bjerknes, V. et al. Physikalische hydrodynamik, Teil II. Berlin. 1933. 



(French Edition: Hydrodynamique phvsique. (3 vols.), vol. Ill, 2me partie. 



Paris. 1934. ) 

 Byers, Horace R. Synoptic and aoronauiical meteorology. New York. 1937. 

 Brunt, David. Physical & dynamical meteorology. Cambridge. 1934. 

 Exner, Felix IM. Dynamische meteorologie. 2d ed. Wien. 1925. 



