Spotter's guide to weather

Título
Spotter's guide to weather

Alastair. Smith

Resumen
From winds to weather satellites, this book is an introduction to weather in all its forms: what causes it, how it is predicted, how to recognize different cloud types and how to understand expert forecasts.

Weather

Fecha de publicación como intervalo
2001,
 
1979

Usborne spotter's guides

Descripción física
64 p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.

Contenido
The Atmosphere -- Sunlight -- Bending Sunlight -- Water In The Air -- Fog, Dew, Frost, And Rime -- Air Pressure -- Thermometers -- Hygrometers -- Clouds -- Cloud Classification -- High-Level Clouds -- Medium-Level Clouds -- Low-Level Clouds -- Cumuliform Clouds -- Rain, Snow, Hail, Sleet -- Thunder And Lightning -- Wind -- Wind And Weather -- Local Winds -- Air Masses -- Jet Streams -- Depressions -- Frontal Weather -- Occluded Fronts -- Anticyclones -- Tropical Storms -- Tornadoes ... And Lookalikes -- Weather Satellites -- Weather Forecasting -- Weather Map -- Weather Web Sites -- Useful Words -- Index.

Término de la materia
Weather -- Terminology.
 
Weather.
 
Meteorology.

Autor añadido
Bhachu, Verinder,
 
Bines, Gary,
 
Chen, Kuo Kang,
 
Wright, David,

Síntesis
From winds to weather satellites, this book is an introduction to weather in all its forms: what causes it, how it is predicted, how to recognize different cloud types and how to understand expert forecasts.

ISBN
9780439397377

Información de publicación
New York : Scholastic, c2001, 1979.


BibliotecaSignatura topográficaTipo de materialCódigo de barras del documentoEstado
George P. Nicholson551.5 SMIBook31004000141049Non-Fiction