Author: Jack Williams
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679776656
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Featuring the full-color weather graphics of America's favorite newspaper, here is a newly revised edition of the most readable guide to our nation's weather. It also includes an updated state-by-state guide to weather patterns and scientifically accurate records. Online promo.
The USA Today Weather Book
Author: Jack Williams
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679776656
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Featuring the full-color weather graphics of America's favorite newspaper, here is a newly revised edition of the most readable guide to our nation's weather. It also includes an updated state-by-state guide to weather patterns and scientifically accurate records. Online promo.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679776656
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Featuring the full-color weather graphics of America's favorite newspaper, here is a newly revised edition of the most readable guide to our nation's weather. It also includes an updated state-by-state guide to weather patterns and scientifically accurate records. Online promo.
The USA Today Weather Book
Author: Jack Williams
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307791831
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The best, most readable and visually stimulating guide to our nation's weather--featuring the full-color graphics of the most popular section of America's most popular newspaper. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307791831
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The best, most readable and visually stimulating guide to our nation's weather--featuring the full-color graphics of the most popular section of America's most popular newspaper. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Extreme Weather
Author: Christopher C Burt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393330151
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Explores some of the United States most severe or unusual weather systems, including electrified dust storms, pink snowstorms, luminous tornadoes, ball lightning, and falls of fish and toads.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393330151
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Explores some of the United States most severe or unusual weather systems, including electrified dust storms, pink snowstorms, luminous tornadoes, ball lightning, and falls of fish and toads.
Weather
Author: Mary Kay Carson
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780439278560
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Contains twenty reproducible web-based activities designed to help students in grades six through eight learn about the weather.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780439278560
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Contains twenty reproducible web-based activities designed to help students in grades six through eight learn about the weather.
Hurricane Watch
Author: Jack Williams
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375713980
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The ultimate guide to the ultimate storms, Hurricane Watch is a fascinating blend of science and history from one of the world's foremost meteorologists and an award-winning science journalist. This in-depth look at these awe-inspiring acts of nature covers everything from the earliest efforts by seafarers at predicting storms to the way satellite imaging is revolutionizing hurricane forecasting. It reveals the latest information on hurricanes: their effects on ocean waves, the causes of the variable wind speeds in different parts of the storm, and the origins of the super-cooled shafts of water that vent at high altitudes. Hurricane Watch is a compelling history of man's relationship with the deadliest storms on earth. Includes: - The story of the nineteenth-century Cuban Jesuit whose success at predicting the great cyclones was considered almost mystical. - A new look at Isaac Cline, whose infamous failure to predict the Galveston Hurricane left him obsessed with the devastating effects of storm surge. - The story of the Hurricane Hunters, including the first man ever to deliberately fly into a hurricane. - A complete account of how computer modeling has changed hurricane tracking. - A history of Project Stormfury: the only significant, organized effort to reduce the damaging strength of severe hurricanes. - A unique firsthand account of Hurricane Andrew by both authors, who were at the National Hurricane Center when Andrew struck. - A listing of the deadliest storms in history.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375713980
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The ultimate guide to the ultimate storms, Hurricane Watch is a fascinating blend of science and history from one of the world's foremost meteorologists and an award-winning science journalist. This in-depth look at these awe-inspiring acts of nature covers everything from the earliest efforts by seafarers at predicting storms to the way satellite imaging is revolutionizing hurricane forecasting. It reveals the latest information on hurricanes: their effects on ocean waves, the causes of the variable wind speeds in different parts of the storm, and the origins of the super-cooled shafts of water that vent at high altitudes. Hurricane Watch is a compelling history of man's relationship with the deadliest storms on earth. Includes: - The story of the nineteenth-century Cuban Jesuit whose success at predicting the great cyclones was considered almost mystical. - A new look at Isaac Cline, whose infamous failure to predict the Galveston Hurricane left him obsessed with the devastating effects of storm surge. - The story of the Hurricane Hunters, including the first man ever to deliberately fly into a hurricane. - A complete account of how computer modeling has changed hurricane tracking. - A history of Project Stormfury: the only significant, organized effort to reduce the damaging strength of severe hurricanes. - A unique firsthand account of Hurricane Andrew by both authors, who were at the National Hurricane Center when Andrew struck. - A listing of the deadliest storms in history.
Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones, New Edition
Author: David Longshore
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438118791
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Presents a detailed encyclopedia of named hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones, descriptions of storm activity, definitions of meteorological terms, and more.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438118791
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Presents a detailed encyclopedia of named hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones, descriptions of storm activity, definitions of meteorological terms, and more.
Tornadoes
Author: Michael Allaby
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108680
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Describes how tornadoes form, ongoing research to better understand why they form when they do, and histories of some of the worst storms to ever occur.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108680
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Describes how tornadoes form, ongoing research to better understand why they form when they do, and histories of some of the worst storms to ever occur.
Air Apparent
Author: Mark Monmonier
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022622287X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Weather maps have made our atmosphere visible, understandable, and at least moderately predictable. In Air Apparent Mark Monmonier traces debates among scientists eager to unravel the enigma of storms and global change, explains strategies for mapping the upper atmosphere and forecasting disaster, and discusses efforts to detect and control air pollution. Fascinating in its scope and detail, Air Apparent makes us take a second look at the weather map, an image that has been, and continues to be, central to our daily lives. "Clever title, rewarding book. Monmonier . . . offers here a basic course in meteorology, which he presents gracefully by means of a history of weather maps." —Scientific American "Mark Monmonier is onto a winner with Air Apparent. . . . It is good, accessible science and excellent history. . . . Read it." —Fred Pearce, New Scientist "[Air Apparent] is a superb first reading for any backyard novice of weather . . . but even the veteran forecaster or researcher will find it engaging and, in some cases, enlightening." —Joe Venuti, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society "Monmonier is solid enough in his discussion of geographic and meteorological information to satisfy the experienced weather watcher. But even if this information were not presented in such a lively and engaging manner, it would still hook most any reader who checks the weather map every morning or who sits happily entranced through a full cycle of forecasts on the Weather Channel."—Michael Kennedy, Boston Globe
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022622287X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Weather maps have made our atmosphere visible, understandable, and at least moderately predictable. In Air Apparent Mark Monmonier traces debates among scientists eager to unravel the enigma of storms and global change, explains strategies for mapping the upper atmosphere and forecasting disaster, and discusses efforts to detect and control air pollution. Fascinating in its scope and detail, Air Apparent makes us take a second look at the weather map, an image that has been, and continues to be, central to our daily lives. "Clever title, rewarding book. Monmonier . . . offers here a basic course in meteorology, which he presents gracefully by means of a history of weather maps." —Scientific American "Mark Monmonier is onto a winner with Air Apparent. . . . It is good, accessible science and excellent history. . . . Read it." —Fred Pearce, New Scientist "[Air Apparent] is a superb first reading for any backyard novice of weather . . . but even the veteran forecaster or researcher will find it engaging and, in some cases, enlightening." —Joe Venuti, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society "Monmonier is solid enough in his discussion of geographic and meteorological information to satisfy the experienced weather watcher. But even if this information were not presented in such a lively and engaging manner, it would still hook most any reader who checks the weather map every morning or who sits happily entranced through a full cycle of forecasts on the Weather Channel."—Michael Kennedy, Boston Globe
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Arctic and Antarctic
Author: Jack Williams
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781592570737
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Now armchair adventurers can find out about the physical, geological, and climatological conditions of the poles; their unique flora, fauna, and human inhabitants; the history of the greatest polar expeditions, the exciting scientific research being conducted there, and what changing climate conditions might mean to the future of this vast and fascinating realm.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781592570737
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Now armchair adventurers can find out about the physical, geological, and climatological conditions of the poles; their unique flora, fauna, and human inhabitants; the history of the greatest polar expeditions, the exciting scientific research being conducted there, and what changing climate conditions might mean to the future of this vast and fascinating realm.
An Introduction to Satellite Image Interpretation
Author: Eric D. Conway
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801855771
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The program requires a Macintosh, Windows, or Windows 95 operating system.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801855771
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The program requires a Macintosh, Windows, or Windows 95 operating system.