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| Preface | |
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| A Global Perspective | |
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| Geography | |
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| Physical Geography | |
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| A Century of Physical Geography | |
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| Systems and Models in Physical Geography | |
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| Geographic Magnitude | |
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| Perspectives on the Human Environment: Sliding Scale | |
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| The Planet Earth | |
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| Spheres of the Earth System | |
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| Hemispheres | |
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| Continents and Oceans | |
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| Perspectives on the Human Environment: Human Population and Natural Processes | |
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| Mapping the Earth''s Surface | |
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| The Spherical Earth | |
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| Map Projections | |
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| Map Interpretation | |
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| Evolving Cartographic Technology | |
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| Perspectives on the Human Environment: Remote Sensing of the Environment | |
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| The Earth in the Universe | |
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| The Universe | |
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| The Solar System | |
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| Perspectives on the Human Environment: Collision! | |
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| Earth-Sun Relationships | |
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| Earth''s Planetary Motions | |
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| Seasonality | |
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| Insolation and Its Variation | |
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| Perspectives on the Human Environment: Measuring Time on Our Rotating Earth | |
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| Atmosphere and Hydrosphere | |
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| Composition and Structure of the Atmosphere | |
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| Contents of the Atmosphere | |
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| The Layered Structure of the Atmosphere | |
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| Research Frontiers | |
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| Perspectives on the Human Environment: Ozone Holes in the Stratosphere | |
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| Radiation and the Heat Balance of the Atmosphere | |
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| The Radiation Balance | |
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| The Heat Balance | |
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| Global Distribution of Heat Flows | |
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| Perspectives on the Human Environment: The Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming | |
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| Atmospheric and Surface Temperature | |
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| What is Temperature? | |
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| The Vertical Distribution of Temperature | |
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| The Horizontal Distribution of Temperature | |
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| Perspectives on the Human Environment: Urban Dust Domes and Heating Patterns | |
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| Air Pressure and Winds | |
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| Atmospheric Pressure | |
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| Air Movement in the Atmosphere | |
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| Large-and Smaller-Scale Wind Systems | |
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| Local Wind Systems | |
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| Perspectives on the Human Environment: Air Pressure and Wind in Our Daily Lives | |
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| Circulation Patterns of the Atmosphere | |
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| A Model of the Surface Circulation | |
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| The Actual Surface Circulation Pattern | |
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| Secondary Surface Circulation: Monsoonal Windflows | |
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| Circulation of the Upper Atmosphere | |
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| Perspectives on the Human Environment: The Sailor''s Legacy-Naming the Winds | |
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| Hydrosphere: Circulation of the World Ocean | |
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| Surface Currents | |
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| Generation of Ocean Currents | |
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| Flow Behavior of Ocean Currents | |
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| Deep-Sea Currents | |
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| The Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere System | |
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| El Nino-Southern Oscillation | |
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| Perspectives on the Human Environment: The North Atlantic Oscillation | |
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| Atmospheric Moisture and the Water Balance | |
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| Physical Properties of Water | |
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| Measuring Water Vapor | |
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| The Hydrologic Cycle | |
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| Evaporation | |
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| Condensation and Clouds | |
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| Precipitation | |
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| The Surface Water Balance | |
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| Perspectives on the Human Environment: Water Usage in the United States | |
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| Precipitation, Air Masses, and Fronts | |
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| Precipitation-Producing Processes | |
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| Convergent-Lifting Precipitation | |
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| Convectional Precipitation | |
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| Orographic Precipitation | |
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| Frontal (Cyclonic) Precipitation | |
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| Air Masses in the Atmosphere | |
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| Perspectives on the Human Environment: Tornadoes and Their Consequences | |
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| Weather Systems | |
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| Low-Latitude Weather Systems | |
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| Weather Systems of the Middle and Higher Latitudes | |
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| Energy and Moisture Within Weather Systems | |
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| Perspectives on the Human Environment: Honduras After Hurricane Mitch | |
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| Weather Tracking and Forecasting | |
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| Weather Data Acquisition | |
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| Mapping Weather Data | |
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| Weather Forecasting | |
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| Perspectives on the Human Environment: Weather Extremes | |
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| Climate Classification and Regionalization | |
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| Classifying Climates | |
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| The Koppen Climate Classification System | |
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| The Regional Distribution of Climate Types | |
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| Boundaries of Climate Regions | |
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| Perspectives on the Human Environment: Climate in Daily Human Terms | |
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| Tropical (A) and Arid (B) Climates | |
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| The Major Tropical (A) Climates | |
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| The Major Arid (B) Climates Perspectives on the Human Environment: Deforestation of the Tropics | |
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| Perspectives on the Human | |