IV 



PREFACE 



This is the first pubhcation of bibliographic material compiled during World War 

 II by the Hydrographic Office. The references in this list resulted from library 

 research carried out in connection with the preparation of H. 0. Pub. 550, Ice Atlas 

 of the Northern Hemisphere, and with studies prepared by this office for the Joint 

 Army-Navy Intelligence Service. 



Sources of information not elsewhere mentioned in this bibliography are: 



Lists of Current Publications on Snow and Ice, contained in the Transactions 

 of the American Geophysical Union, vols. 20, 21, and 23, 1939, 1940, 

 and 1942, by Carl Elges, R. G. Stone, B. P. Veinberg, R. W. Burhoe, 

 and H. P. Boardman. 

 Die Erforschung des Polargebietes Russisch-Eurasiens See- und Landreisen 

 waHrend der Jahre 1912-1924. Petermanns Mittheilungen Erganzungs- 

 heft 188. 1925. Die Erforschung des Nordpolargebiets in den Jahren 

 1913-1928 (Innere Arktis und Europaischer Sektor). . .1913-1931 

 (Sibirischer und Amerikanischer Sektor). Geographisches Jahrbuch, v. 

 44, 1929. V. 47, 1932. By L. L. Breitfuss. 

 Bibliography of Meteorological Literature, pub. by the Royal Meteorological 



Society of London, v. 1, 1936 to date. 

 Indexes to the various publications of the Akademifa nauk, Leningrad. 

 Index of Literature on Hydrology in the U. S, S. R. (In Russian.) 



For 1928, pub. in Izvestiia of the Gosudarstvennyi Gidrologicheskii 

 Institut, V. 30, 1931. For 1929-1930, pub. separately by the fSentralnoe 

 Biiiro Gidrologicheskoi Bibliografii of the same institute. 

 Publications of the Arctic Research Institute 1920-1939. (In Russian.) 



Problemy Arktiki, 1940, no. 3, pp. 157-184. 

 Each issue of the monthly magazine: Problemy Arktiki, bibliography section. 

 V. 1, 1937 to date. 

 In addition to these sources, there are excellent bibliographies in certain general 

 textbooks listed herein, notably: H. T. Barnes (item 1341), B. P. Veinberg (item 1600), 

 and N. N. Zubov (item 1628). 



The geopraphical positions (coordinates), which are given in the geographical 

 index, are intended to facilitate reference to charts and maps, and in many instances 

 are only approximate. 



The bibliography was compiled by Miss Mary C. Grier, former librarian at the 

 Oceanographic Laboratories, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. A 

 number of titles were supplied by John C. Weaver, Lt. (j.g.) S-U.S.N.R. 



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