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Àâòîð - Frederick K. Lutgens, Edward J. Tarbuck, Dennis Tasa
Rub. date : 2003
Êîëè÷åñòâî ñòðàíèö - 528
Èçäàòåëüñòâî - Prentice Hall
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Amazon
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$78,49
This reader-friendly book offers current and comprehensive information about the atmosphere — its components, problems, and applications. It features everyday examples to help the reader understand weather and climate, with incredible photographs, satellite images, and line art. Broad in scope and clearly and concisely written, this book features such topics as temperature, moisture and atmospheric stability, condensation and precipitation, air pressure and winds, circulation, air masses, weather patterns, thunderstorms and tornadoes, hurricanes, air pollution, world climates, and optical phenomena. For readers interested in a book that discusses up-to-date weather and climate issues that affect the world's people everyday; can also be utilized as a reference text for those in the field of meteorology and other earth sciences.
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Àâòîð - Edward Aguado, James E. Burt, James Burt
Rub. date : 2003
Êîëè÷åñòâî ñòðàíèö - 592
Èçäàòåëüñòâî - Prentice Hall
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Amazon
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$85,31
This meteorology book focuses on explanation about the processes that produce Earth's weather and climate. It emphasizes a non-mathematical understanding of physical principles as a vehicle for learning about atmospheric processes. Additionally, difficult-to-visualize topics are reinforced with a series of software tutorials presented on a CD-ROM packaged with the book. Accompanying CD-ROM is available featuring Tutorials, Interactive Exercises, and illustrative movie loops all keyed to the book. Also, this book includes up-to-date coverage of severe weather events for professionals in the meteorology field.
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Àâòîð - C. Donald Ahrens
Rub. date : 2004
Êîëè÷åñòâî ñòðàíèö - 496
Èçäàòåëüñòâî - Brooks Cole
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Amazon
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$90,95
This updated and enhanced Fourth Edition of Essentials of Meteorology is written by the most widely read, trusted author in introductory meteorology. Updated material in this edition includes new Weather Watch and Focus boxes, as well as updated art, maps, and figures.
Book News, Inc.: 'In an introductory text incorporating recent data on weather and climate, Ahrens (Modesto Junior College) covers global warming and other factors that influence the Earth's atmosphere. Chapters include outstanding color illustrations, interesting weather trivia, and the usual learning aids. Appendices add an annual world precipitation map, technical tables, and a detachable cloud chart. A trial subscription to an online library is available.'
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Àâòîð - Christopher C. Burt
Rub. date : 2004
Êîëè÷åñòâî ñòðàíèö - 304
Èçäàòåëüñòâî - Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
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Barnes&Noble
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$19,96
Extreme Weather contains a compilation of weather statistics from more than 300 weather stations across the United States which altogether represent areas where over 90% of the U.S. population resides. This book also serves as a weather guidebook; providing information about those places in the United States and around the world where weather is at its worst. Also included are historical examples of some of the more bizarre weather events observed: heat bursts, electrified dust storms, snow rollers, pink snowstorms, luminous tornadoes, falls of fish and toads, ball lightning, super bolts, and other strange meteorological events.
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Àâòîð - Bruce Buckley, Edward J. Hopkins, Richard Whitaker
Rub. date : 2004
Êîëè÷åñòâî ñòðàíèö - 303
Èçäàòåëüñòâî - Firefly Books Ltd
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Amazon
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$19,77
A introductory guide to understanding weather and its effect on our lives. Using dramatic never-before-published aerial and satellite photography, this book provides up-to-the-minute information about a fascinating spectrum of natural phenomena:
- Extreme weather such as tornadoes and hurricanes;
- Natural events that affect the weather;
- Forecasting and predicting weather;
- How weather affects life on Earth;
- Climate change.
Colorful diagrams provide at-a-glance understanding about complex issues with explanations for interpreting weather signs and charts. Weather simplifies the many aspects of climate with easy-to-understand text and lively illustrations.
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Àâòîð - Kenneth Libbrecht, Patricia Rasmussen (Photographer)
Rub. date : 2003
Êîëè÷åñòâî ñòðàíèö - 112
Èçäàòåëüñòâî - Voyageur Press
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Barnes&Noble
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$14
Snowflakes may be an everyday, common subject, but you’ve never seen them like this! A collection of amazing photography of snow crystals using a unique system designed to take super-detailed micro images of these miniature ice masterpieces, The Snowflake is an extraordinary look at a seemingly ordinary object.
Author Kenneth Libbrecht, an executive officer of physics at CalTech and the pre-eminent snow-crystal researcher, discusses the physics and mythology of snow and how snow crystals are made. Photographer Patricia Rasmussen presents remarkable color micro-photography of snowflakes, and also discusses the history of snow-crystal micro-photography as invented by farmer Wilson Bentley.
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Àâòîð - Jack Williams
Rub. date : 1997
Êîëè÷åñòâî ñòðàíèö - 240
Èçäàòåëüñòâî - Vintage
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Amazon
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$14,28
Useful both as a reference work and a browse, the book presents a wealth of information, making complex ideas - such as why wind directions change with altitude - accessible through colorful maps and graphics. Chapters cover everything from storms to droughts, with a look at weather forecasting as well as the diversity of weather in the USA. The chapters include interesting tidbits such as the effect of heat on an airplane's takeoff distance and the importance of seeking higher ground during a flood.
Included are a glossary and weather record for all 50 states.
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Àâòîð - David Ludlum
Rub. date : 1991
Êîëè÷åñòâî ñòðàíèö - 640
Èçäàòåëüñòâî - Knopf
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Amazon
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$13,57
Three sections work together to provide a useful resource for understanding and interpreting various weather phenomena. The opening essays provide in-depth information on topics such as clouds, snowstorms, floods, etc. About half of the book is comprised of labelled, high-quality photographs. The third section gives description, environment, season, range, and significance of each type of weather.
The 378 dramatic photographs capture cloud types, precipitation, storms, twisters, and optical phenomena such as the Northern Lights. Essays with accompanying maps and illustrations discuss the earth's atmosphere, weather systems, cloud formation, and development of tornadoes and many other weather events.
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Àâòîð - Robert Cremins (Illustrator), Theophilus Britt Griswold (Illustrator)
Rub. date : 2001
Êîëè÷åñòâî ñòðàíèö - 80
Èçäàòåëüñòâî - National Geographic Society
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Barnes&Noble
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$5,95
This colorful, pocket-size field guide brings youngsters face-to-face with all kinds of amazing atmospheric weather phenomena. The concise, easy-to-read text provides lots of fun facts to share with friends and just enough detail to make cloud type, precipitation, and other identification easy for budding meteorologists. An introduction shows children how to use the book, while the glossary and index add to the reference value.
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Àâòîð - John D. Cox, Stacy Collins (Editor)
Rub. date : 2000
Êîëè÷åñòâî ñòðàíèö - 358
Èçäàòåëüñòâî - Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
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Barnes&Noble
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$21,99
A handy reference to the awesome forces of nature we witness every day. For anyone who is dazzled by dramatic displays of wind, thunder, and lightning, Weather For Dummies is an indispensable guide to the basic science behind these daily phenomena. From frontal systems to jet streams to pressure systems, this book gives you the tools you need to understand the climate around them. Weather For Dummies includes:
- Explanations of the hottest weather topics including El Ni-o, global warming, and more;
- An eight-page color insert filled with weather maps and photos of weather phenomena;
- Resources such as Web sites, weather organizations, and publications;
- Fascinating information on clouds-from the wispy cirrus to the bubbling mammatus;
- Fun weather experiments anyone can do.
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