Abstract
The Arctic is pioneer territory for the climatologist. For generations, students of the atmosphere have depended for their views of the arctic circulation upon hypotheses rather than facts. Because it has lain beyond the reach of large-scale observation, the Arctic has been the happy hunting ground of partisan theorists. One sometimes suspects that the compilers of world maps of pressure, temperature, and precipitation distribution have breathed a sigh of relief when they reached the Arctic, for here at last was a region where statistics were rarely troublesome. For every painstaking study of the calibre of Sverdrup’s work on the Maud, or Georgi’s at Eismitte, there have been tens of superficial interpretations.
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Hare, F.K. (1951). Some Climatological Problems of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic. In: Malone, T.F. (eds) Compendium of Meteorology. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-940033-70-9_76
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