The Upper Atmosphere in Motion. A Selection of Papers With Annotation. (= Geophysical Monoigraph - Volume 18).

Hines, C.O. et al.:

ISBN 10: 0875900186 / ISBN 13: 9780875900186

Published by American Geophysical Union, Washington, 1974

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x, 1027 pp. with some Figures, 0875900186 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1950 Groß 8°, Original-Leinen (Hardcover), Vorderdeckel minimal fleckig , Name auf Vorsatz, insgesamt gutes und innen sauberes Exemplar, (alltogether good copy),

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Upper Atmosphere in Motion. A Selection of Papers With Annotation. (= Geophysical Monoigraph - Volume 18).
• Publisher: American Geophysical Union, Washington
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0875900186
• ISBN 13: 9780875900186
• Binding: Hardcover
• Weight: 1950 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Geographie - Meteorologie / Hydrologie

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Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 18.

I am advised that a preface, though not necessary, would at least be conventional. Since this provides the one opportunity for conventionality that the volume as a whole opens up, it would be churlish of me to decline.

A preface normally includes, I am told, an indication of both the reason that underlies the volume's very existence and the individuals to whom the volume is directed. But part of the reason for the volume's existence lies, strange though it may seem, in communicating the reason for the volume's existence. Since prefaces generally go unread, I would be remiss if I attempted that communication here. Instead, I have left the attempt to the Introduction and Key, which I believe has a better chance of being read. Let us be willing to settle, for the moment, on the truly fundamental fact that the volume was prepared because I was prepared to prepare it and a publisher was prepared to publish it. As to the intended readers; they too, must wait for their identification in the Introduction and Key, unless they are willing to settle at this point on an identification as those who might be ready to read what I was prepared to prepare.