The Construction of Geographical Climatology in Brazil

"My most significant contribution as a geographer, along the second half of the 20th century, without a doubt was directed towards Climatology. Until then, mostly known as ""Elements of Meteorology"", the Climate study inside Geography was more conne cte d with the quantification of atmospheric elements without the necessary genetic qualification and the behaviour dynamic of processes. Against general procedure, I saw myself in search of a conceptual revision and a revision of behaviour practice s (dy namics), then initiated by the Polar Front Theory (1917). Slowly but surely, I elaborated a series of articles, book chapters, didactic advices geared towards high school teachings, until I started working with special projects, thesis and theo r etica l ponderings in hopes of producing a new paradigm that left behind the static field, exclusive of the arithmetic mean, towards the rhythmic dynamic. At this point in my life, having surpassed eighty years of age, I have called on this book´s co -autho rs in hopes of discussing a guideline on how to ""distribute"" another work which so far has taken a long time to reach a more effective practice, insofar as it having been developed over a century ago. I hope that the current efforts of di str ibution o ffer some benefits for the Geography students and the recently-graduated Geographers, and that, abroad, it manages to receive some attention as means to point out that, in the southern hemisphere, in Latin America, and more specifically in Brazil - w hich has grown, and continues to grow, culturally and economically - we are able, also, to offer suggestions in this specific area. "