The Temperature Region Map

Koppen was probably the first to conceive the idea of showing the distribution of the temperature conditions of the world by means of temperature region maps. Professor Jefferson has used a modified and simplified form of Koppen's map in his Teacher's Geography. Herbertson presented the idea of temperature regions-illustrated by a world map, to the Royal Geographic Society in 1912. This map has since been issued in the Oxford Series as Thermal Regions of the World. Andrews in his Book of Geography, in the general discussion of each continent devotes several pages to temperatures and temperature regions, adopting in toto the thermal regions of Herbertson; but he does not show a thermal region map. This paper is written as an appeal to geography teachers and writers of geographical literature for a greater and wider recognition and use of the Temperature Region idea. The author has nothing new to offer, except a map more carefully drawn, i.e., more detailed, than Herbertson's and an interpretation of this map not found, as far as he knows, in any text. On the map that the writer is presenting herewith the general principles used by Koppen, Jefferson, and Herbertson in delimiting the regions are adopted and the nomenclature is a hybrid of that used by Jefferson and Herbertson. Data for more than 2000 places were used in drawing the boundaries. These data were plotted on physical maps of a scale sufficiently large to bring out many details in surface features. The works consulted for temperature data were Hahn, Klimatologie, III; Bulletins Q and W and a few other publications of the U. S. Weather Bureau; Publications of the Canadian Weather Bureau; Knox, Climate of Africa; Taylor, Australian Meteorology; Kendrew, The Climates of the Continents; Andrew, A Text Book on Geography; Blanford, Climates and Weather of India, Ceylon, and Burmah; and various standards texts on geography, as well as geographical and meteorological periodicals. t All copyright privileges reserved by the author. 151

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  J Russell Whitaker•Annals of the Association of…•1941

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