Stephen S Visher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3710787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen S Visher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen S |
| FAMILY NAME | Visher |
| SIGNATURE | VISHER S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1916 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Arizona Climate
Changing Significance of Environmental Factors at Bloomington, Indiana
C OMPARATIVELY little on the changes with time in the significance of local geographic factors has been reported in geographic literature. One consequence has been a wide difference of opinion among geographers and others as to the significance of geographic factors. Indiana, affords an instructive case-study of such changes and the need for repeated re-evaluation as man's technology evolves and as other areas develop. This city is selected becau…
Comparative Agricultural Potentials of the World's Regions
(1955). Comparative Agricultural Potentials of the World's Regions. Economic Geography: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 82-86
Rollin D. Salisbury and Geography
(1953). Rollin D. Salisbury and Geography. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 4-11
Rollin D. Salisbury and Geography
An Aspect of the Social Geography of Indiana
An Aspect of the Social Geography of Indiana
T g lHE birthplaces of the numerous popular authors and journalists, distinguished scientists, and prominent politicians born in Indiana are concentrated much more than the population was at the time of their birth. A fifth of the state, then having about one-fourth of the population, was the birthplace of two-thirds or more of the prominent people born before 1870. Conversely, an area of even greater population produced very few of those notable…
Precipitation Seasons in the United States
FOUR parts of the United States have well marked seasonal contrasts in total precipitation (Fig. I). The contrast is greatest on the Pacific coast. There the winters are rainy, but in midsummer almost no rain is to be expected in Washington or during more than six months in central California. Much of southern California normally receives no rain at all during seven summer weeks. The northern Great Plains receives very little precipitation in win…
Storms of the World
The Seasons' Arrivals and Lengths
The Seasons' Arrivals and Lengths
Hartshorne' has called attention to the fact that about half of the United ture limits. These are (1) winter, cold, below 320 F.; (2, 3) spring and fall, cool, 32?-50); (4, 5) early and late summer, warm, 50o68o; and (6) summer, hot, over 680. He gave, for two American and for several foreign cities, diagrams which show the approximate dates and hence duration of the seasons, and a world map of the types and number of seasons. Here are given, for…
Drouths and Floods in the United States
R_T _ AINFALL deficiencies and excesses are of such profound significance in economic geography that additional information on their magnitude and frequency are welcomed. They cause damage partly because most human responses to the environment are to average or normal conditions. It is a serious task to make wise adjustments to ordinary or usual conditions; to adjust wisely to unusual conditions requires a great deal of additional knowledge, effo…
Regionalization of the United States on a Precipitation Basis
Regionalization of the United States on a Precipitation Basis
Helpful suggestions concerning a preliminary edition of this article were received from E. A. Ackerman, C. F. Brooks, R. M. Harper, C. D. Harris, E. E. Lackey, J. K. Rose, G. T. Trewartha, and J. R. Whitaker. ' N. M. Fenneman: Physiographic Divisions of the United States, Revised. These Annals, Vol. 18 (1928), 261-353. : Physiography of the Western United States, 534 pp., New York, 1931. : Physiography of the Eastern United States, 714 pp., New Y…
Torrential Rains as a Serious Handicap in the South
I N the South (the South-Central and South Atlantic States) rainfall has seldom been considered an outstanding environmental influence. One reason for this is that there is much less variation from year to year in the total yield of the cotton crop than of the crops of the semiarid and subhumid regions, where rainfall is obviously of critical importance. However, recently available evidence that soil erosion is especially serious in the South inv…
Weather Influences on Crop Yields
ESPITE the general recognition that crop yields are strongly influenced by the weather, there is relatively little detailed knowledge as to the effect of any particular aspect of weather, largely because crop yields are affected by numerous influences operating simultaneously or in succession. Among them are quality of seed and soil, care of land, time of planting, spacing of the plants, insects and other crop enemies. Among weather elements, the…
The Education of the Younger Starred Scientists
A SUMMARY as to the education of the two hundred fifty scientists first starred, by vote of their fellow specialists as distinguished in research, in the sixth edition of Cattell's American Men of Science issued last August, is of interest, as is brief discussion of some of the changes in the education of the younger starred scientists as compared with those selected earlier. The present discussion is somewhat comparable to studies made by Cattel…
Rainfall-Intensity Contrasts in Indiana: Causes and Consequences
Climatic Effects of the Proposed Wooded Shelter Belt in the Great Plains
Climatic Effects of the Proposed Wooded Shelter Belt in the Great Plains
Land Use in Minnesota
Starred Scientists
The Indiana Oolitic Limestone Industry
A SMALL district in Indiana produces about half of the present American output of building-stone and over nine-tenths of the cut building-stone. It is believed to be unsurpassed in output by any foreign building-stone quarry district. Despite the importance of this region, no article concerning it has been published in a geographic journal, nor have the chief geographic features of the industry been discussed elsewhere. The relative importance of…
Rainfall and Wind Conditions Retarding Tropical Development
(1930). Rainfall and Wind Conditions Retarding Tropical Development. Economic Geography: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 152-165
A Study of the Type of the Place of Birth and of the Occupation of Fathers of Subjects of Sketches in 'Who's Who in America
Replies from 18,400 persons sketched in the current edition of Who's Who in America indicate that 25.9 per cent were born on farms, 24.5 per cent in villages and towns, 24.8 per cent in small cities, 20.6 per cent in large cities, and 4.1 per cent in suburbs. In proportion to population at the 1870 census, cities contributed nearly 6 times as many as did farms, villages 9 times as many, and suburbs 11 times. The fathers of 70 per cent of these pe…
Comparative Agricultural Potentials of the World's Regions
(1955). Comparative Agricultural Potentials of the World's Regions. Economic Geography: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 82-86
Rainfall-Intensity Contrasts in Indiana: Causes and Consequences
The Indiana Oolitic Limestone Industry
A SMALL district in Indiana produces about half of the present American output of building-stone and over nine-tenths of the cut building-stone. It is believed to be unsurpassed in output by any foreign building-stone quarry district. Despite the importance of this region, no article concerning it has been published in a geographic journal, nor have the chief geographic features of the industry been discussed elsewhere. The relative importance of…
Changing Significance of Environmental Factors at Bloomington, Indiana
C OMPARATIVELY little on the changes with time in the significance of local geographic factors has been reported in geographic literature. One consequence has been a wide difference of opinion among geographers and others as to the significance of geographic factors. Indiana, affords an instructive case-study of such changes and the need for repeated re-evaluation as man's technology evolves and as other areas develop. This city is selected becau…
Precipitation Seasons in the United States
FOUR parts of the United States have well marked seasonal contrasts in total precipitation (Fig. I). The contrast is greatest on the Pacific coast. There the winters are rainy, but in midsummer almost no rain is to be expected in Washington or during more than six months in central California. Much of southern California normally receives no rain at all during seven summer weeks. The northern Great Plains receives very little precipitation in win…
Storms of the World
Drouths and Floods in the United States
R_T _ AINFALL deficiencies and excesses are of such profound significance in economic geography that additional information on their magnitude and frequency are welcomed. They cause damage partly because most human responses to the environment are to average or normal conditions. It is a serious task to make wise adjustments to ordinary or usual conditions; to adjust wisely to unusual conditions requires a great deal of additional knowledge, effo…
Torrential Rains as a Serious Handicap in the South
I N the South (the South-Central and South Atlantic States) rainfall has seldom been considered an outstanding environmental influence. One reason for this is that there is much less variation from year to year in the total yield of the cotton crop than of the crops of the semiarid and subhumid regions, where rainfall is obviously of critical importance. However, recently available evidence that soil erosion is especially serious in the South inv…
Weather Influences on Crop Yields
ESPITE the general recognition that crop yields are strongly influenced by the weather, there is relatively little detailed knowledge as to the effect of any particular aspect of weather, largely because crop yields are affected by numerous influences operating simultaneously or in succession. Among them are quality of seed and soil, care of land, time of planting, spacing of the plants, insects and other crop enemies. Among weather elements, the…
A Study of the Type of the Place of Birth and of the Occupation of Fathers of Subjects of Sketches in 'Who's Who in America
Replies from 18,400 persons sketched in the current edition of Who's Who in America indicate that 25.9 per cent were born on farms, 24.5 per cent in villages and towns, 24.8 per cent in small cities, 20.6 per cent in large cities, and 4.1 per cent in suburbs. In proportion to population at the 1870 census, cities contributed nearly 6 times as many as did farms, villages 9 times as many, and suburbs 11 times. The fathers of 70 per cent of these pe…
The Biogeography of the Northern Great Plains
The Biogeography of the Northern Great Plains
Tropical Cyclones
The Climate of the Netherlands East Indies
A Study of the Type of the Place of Birth and of the Occupation of Fathers of Subjects of Sketches in 'Who's Who in America
Replies from 18,400 persons sketched in the current edition of Who's Who in America indicate that 25.9 per cent were born on farms, 24.5 per cent in villages and towns, 24.8 per cent in small cities, 20.6 per cent in large cities, and 4.1 per cent in suburbs. In proportion to population at the 1870 census, cities contributed nearly 6 times as many as did farms, villages 9 times as many, and suburbs 11 times. The fathers of 70 per cent of these pe…
Rainfall and Wind Conditions Retarding Tropical Development
(1930). Rainfall and Wind Conditions Retarding Tropical Development. Economic Geography: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 152-165
Starred Scientists
The Indiana Oolitic Limestone Industry
A SMALL district in Indiana produces about half of the present American output of building-stone and over nine-tenths of the cut building-stone. It is believed to be unsurpassed in output by any foreign building-stone quarry district. Despite the importance of this region, no article concerning it has been published in a geographic journal, nor have the chief geographic features of the industry been discussed elsewhere. The relative importance of…
Climatic Effects of the Proposed Wooded Shelter Belt in the Great Plains
Climatic Effects of the Proposed Wooded Shelter Belt in the Great Plains
Land Use in Minnesota
Rainfall-Intensity Contrasts in Indiana: Causes and Consequences
The Education of the Younger Starred Scientists
A SUMMARY as to the education of the two hundred fifty scientists first starred, by vote of their fellow specialists as distinguished in research, in the sixth edition of Cattell's American Men of Science issued last August, is of interest, as is brief discussion of some of the changes in the education of the younger starred scientists as compared with those selected earlier. The present discussion is somewhat comparable to studies made by Cattel…
Weather Influences on Crop Yields
ESPITE the general recognition that crop yields are strongly influenced by the weather, there is relatively little detailed knowledge as to the effect of any particular aspect of weather, largely because crop yields are affected by numerous influences operating simultaneously or in succession. Among them are quality of seed and soil, care of land, time of planting, spacing of the plants, insects and other crop enemies. Among weather elements, the…
Torrential Rains as a Serious Handicap in the South
I N the South (the South-Central and South Atlantic States) rainfall has seldom been considered an outstanding environmental influence. One reason for this is that there is much less variation from year to year in the total yield of the cotton crop than of the crops of the semiarid and subhumid regions, where rainfall is obviously of critical importance. However, recently available evidence that soil erosion is especially serious in the South inv…
Regionalization of the United States on a Precipitation Basis
Regionalization of the United States on a Precipitation Basis
Helpful suggestions concerning a preliminary edition of this article were received from E. A. Ackerman, C. F. Brooks, R. M. Harper, C. D. Harris, E. E. Lackey, J. K. Rose, G. T. Trewartha, and J. R. Whitaker. ' N. M. Fenneman: Physiographic Divisions of the United States, Revised. These Annals, Vol. 18 (1928), 261-353. : Physiography of the Western United States, 534 pp., New York, 1931. : Physiography of the Eastern United States, 714 pp., New Y…
The Seasons' Arrivals and Lengths
The Seasons' Arrivals and Lengths
Hartshorne' has called attention to the fact that about half of the United ture limits. These are (1) winter, cold, below 320 F.; (2, 3) spring and fall, cool, 32?-50); (4, 5) early and late summer, warm, 50o68o; and (6) summer, hot, over 680. He gave, for two American and for several foreign cities, diagrams which show the approximate dates and hence duration of the seasons, and a world map of the types and number of seasons. Here are given, for…
Drouths and Floods in the United States
R_T _ AINFALL deficiencies and excesses are of such profound significance in economic geography that additional information on their magnitude and frequency are welcomed. They cause damage partly because most human responses to the environment are to average or normal conditions. It is a serious task to make wise adjustments to ordinary or usual conditions; to adjust wisely to unusual conditions requires a great deal of additional knowledge, effo…
Storms of the World
Precipitation Seasons in the United States
FOUR parts of the United States have well marked seasonal contrasts in total precipitation (Fig. I). The contrast is greatest on the Pacific coast. There the winters are rainy, but in midsummer almost no rain is to be expected in Washington or during more than six months in central California. Much of southern California normally receives no rain at all during seven summer weeks. The northern Great Plains receives very little precipitation in win…
An Aspect of the Social Geography of Indiana
An Aspect of the Social Geography of Indiana
T g lHE birthplaces of the numerous popular authors and journalists, distinguished scientists, and prominent politicians born in Indiana are concentrated much more than the population was at the time of their birth. A fifth of the state, then having about one-fourth of the population, was the birthplace of two-thirds or more of the prominent people born before 1870. Conversely, an area of even greater population produced very few of those notable…
Rollin D. Salisbury and Geography
(1953). Rollin D. Salisbury and Geography. Annals of the Association of American Geographers: Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 4-11
Rollin D. Salisbury and Geography
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