Abstract

M I Budyko London: Academic Press 1974 pp xvii + 508 price £16.45, $35 Professor Budyko, Director of the Voeikov Geophysical Observatory in Leningrad for many years, has been to the fore in the study of the heat balance and energy budget of the earth–atmosphere system and this book presents a valuable summary of the basic principles of this climatological approach and fascinating examples of its applications in a variety of scientific contexts. The first section of the book details the solar radiation balance and the energy transformations that take place at the earth's surface and in the atmosphere.

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