Symposium on Scientific Aspects of the International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958, by invitation of the Committee on Arrangements for the annual meeting
Publisher: publisher not identified
Published: 1954
Place of publication: Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 982
Subjects: International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958; Geophysics
Other titles: Scientific aspects of the International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
Notes: "Reprinted from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 40, no. 10, p. 922-982, October, 1954."

Read before the Academy, April 28, 1954.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Explanatory forward / L.V. Berkner; title: The International Geophysical Year and some American aspects of it / Sydney Chapman; title: The scientific program of the International Geophysical Year / Joseph Kaplan; title: Morphology of ionospheric storms / H.G. Booker; title: The morphology of the aurora / A.B. Meinel; title: Diurnal and seasonal variation of the airglow / F.E. Roach; title: Transport problems in the atmosphere / H. Wexler; title: Evidence for winds in the outer atmosphere / F.L. Whipple; title: Solar activity and terrestrial disturbances / D.H. Menzel; title: Geographic basis for antarctic scientific observations / P.A. Siple.