INDEX 



Abandon ship, 193 

 Adaptation of existing ships, 12 

 Advection fog, 113-15 

 Agriculture 

 Iceland, 69 

 Soviet arctic, 82 

 Air masses 



antarctic. 205-09 

 arctic, 95-98 



summer conditions, 96 

 temperature distribution, 98 

 types (table), 96 

 winter conditions, 97-98 

 Air routes vs. normal routes (table), 



31 

 Alaska. See also Canadian Western 



arctic, 

 arctic slope, geography, 51 

 coastal areas, 54 

 winds, 103 

 Alaskan Highway, 59 

 Aleutian Island chain, geography, 54 

 Animal life 

 arctic, 29 



Canadian eastern arctic, 48 

 Greenland, 64 

 marine, 40 



North American subarctic, 56 

 Soviet arctic, 80 

 Spitsbergen, 72 

 Antarctic. 201-25 

 air masses, 205-09 

 anticyclone, 201 

 blizzards, 203 

 climate. 201-25 

 cloudiness. 211 

 clouds, forecasting, 215 

 front. 204 

 map, 202 

 precipitation. 212 

 pressure tendency, aid to forecast 



ing, 214 

 rain. 203 

 readings on (list), 199 



Antarctic — Continued 

 temperatures, 204 

 visibility, 210 

 white-out. 217 

 Anticyclone 

 antarctic, 201 



polar, northern Canada, 106 

 arctic, 92 

 Arctic 



air masses. 95-98 

 anticyclone, 92 

 definitions of term. 17-19 

 regions, importance, 14 

 sea, 32-35 

 basins, 32 

 currents, 3j^, 35 

 outlets. 35 

 predominance. 21 

 sources. 34 

 Arctic smoke. 115 

 Atlantic Arctic Front, 92 

 Aurora borealis, 20 



Baffin Bay 



current in, 35 



low-pressure center, semi-perma- 

 nent, 93 

 open water in, 38 

 Barex, 9-10 

 Basins of arctic seas, 32 

 Bear 



Kodiak, 56 

 polar, 29 

 Bear Island, 84 

 Bergs, 35 



Bibliography, 197-99 

 Black fog, 20 

 Blindness, snow, 182 

 Blizzards, antarctic, 203 

 Body heat 



conservation, 157 

 mechanism, 158 

 thermostatic control, 159 

 Boots, 167 



