Texas A&M University, E-edition, 2007, 317 pp.
My interest in climatic classification began in a climatology class I took, in 1969 at Columbia
University, with John Oliver. The idea for this project began in a course with John F. Griffiths at
Texas A&M University in 1981. To them I owe inspiration for the finished product.This work contains more than just classifications. There are also "regionalizations" (studies of
specific places), studies of mountain climatic gradients, bioclimatic indices, physicalgeographical
regionalizations (uniquely Russian) and "indices" which are studies of measures of
climatic elements. So long as they contain classifications, even of a single place, and can be used
in studies comparing different places, they are pertinent to the broad area of climatic
classification.
In the literature, both terms climate classification and climatic classification are used, almost
interchangeably. When searching library literature, the correct term to use, according to the
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) is climatic classification.
