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Author : Edward Aguado
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Atmospheric physics
ISBN : 9780321769633
With a focus on scientific literacy, current events, and forecasting, Understanding Weather and Climate seeks to answer these and other questions, giving students a friendly introduction to the fundamentals of atmospheric science.
Author : Edward Aguado
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 2014-11-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 013394364X
&>For Introductory Meteorology Science Courses. Engage Students in Learning About Atmospheric Processes Aguado/Burt’s Understanding Weather and Climate illustrates meteorology and climatology using everyday occurrences and inspired technology tutorials to engage students in learning about atmospheric processes and patterns. The Seventh Edition extends coverage of global climate change with new and unique sections covering oceans and climate in the Earth system. Each chapter also focuses on the human aspect of weather and climate, covering high interest weather-related hazards that draw students into the course, while incorporating the latest science and the most relevant issues. MasteringMeteorology with eText for Understanding Weather and Climate is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment product designed to improve results by helping your students quickly master concepts. The book and MasteringMeteorology work together to create a classroom experience that is tightly integrated to help students succeed both in and outside of the classroom. Note: If you are purchasing the standalone text or electronic version, MasteringMeteorology does not come automatically packaged with the text. To purchase MasteringMeteorology please visit www.masteringmeteorology.com or you can purchase a package of the physical text + MasteringMeteorology by searching for 0321984439 / 9780321984432. MasteringMeteorology is not a self-paced technology and should only be purchased when required by an instructor.
Author : Karel Karel Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,36 MB
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 1134647999
Weather provides a wide variety of stimuli for our senses. The sound of thunder and gales, the smell of damp soil at the start of a summer thunderstorm are but temporary phenomena while the visual panorama of the changing sky that provides a more revealing insight into the workings of the dynamic atmosphere. Understanding Weather shows how it is possible to understand weather and climate by combining our ability to observe weather systems from the earth's surface with visualisation from above - notably by means of satellite imagery. This fusion of human observation with the contrasting capabilities of remote sensing gives us a new perspective for exploring the three dimensional atmosphere. Remote sensing imagery and real-time weather information are now widely available through the internet, allowing the reader to relate the case studies to today's weather situation. As with all sciences, understanding starts with careful observation. This books aims to show that it is possible to analyse global weather systems through a visual approach rather than the traditional use of mathematics and physics. After examining the interaction of atmospheric heat, moisture and motion in a non-technical style, the contrasting but complementary techniques of weather observation from 'below' and 'above' are compared. The world's climates are then surveyed with key weather features illustrated by satellite imagery, highlighting the way in which weather events may develop into atmospheric hazards.
Author : Robin McIlveen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 20,12 MB
Release : 2010-05-27
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0199215421
Originally published in 1986 as Basic meteorology: a physical outline.
Author : Martin Mahony
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 12,44 MB
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 0822987554
As global temperatures rise under the forcing hand of humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions, new questions are being asked of how societies make sense of their weather, of the cultural values, which are afforded to climate, and of how environmental futures are imagined, feared, predicted, and remade. Weather, Climate, and Geographical Imagination contributes to this conversation by bringing together a range of voices from history of science, historical geography, and environmental history, each speaking to a set of questions about the role of space and place in the production, circulation, reception, and application of knowledges about weather and climate. The volume develops the concept of “geographical imagination” to address the intersecting forces of scientific knowledge, cultural politics, bodily experience, and spatial imaginaries, which shape the history of knowledges about climate.
Author : Edward Aguado
Publisher : Pearson College Division
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 29,83 MB
Release : 2000-08-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780130276872
Intended for introductory courses in Meteorology, this book emphasizes on physical principles to help students develop an understanding of the atmosphere. It is accompanied by eight tutorial software modules on CD-ROM to enable students grasp the difficult concepts generally taught in the course.
Author : Thomas Tomkins Warner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
Release : 2010-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 1139494317
This textbook provides a comprehensive yet accessible treatment of weather and climate prediction, for graduate students, researchers and professionals. It teaches the strengths, weaknesses and best practices for the use of atmospheric models. It is ideal for the many scientists who use such models across a wide variety of applications. The book describes the different numerical methods, data assimilation, ensemble methods, predictability, land-surface modeling, climate modeling and downscaling, computational fluid-dynamics models, experimental designs in model-based research, verification methods, operational prediction, and special applications such as air-quality modeling and flood prediction. This volume will satisfy everyone who needs to know about atmospheric modeling for use in research or operations. It is ideal both as a textbook for a course on weather and climate prediction and as a reference text for researchers and professionals from a range of backgrounds: atmospheric science, meteorology, climatology, environmental science, geography, and geophysical fluid mechanics/dynamics.
Author : C. Donald Ahrens
Publisher : Thomson Brooks/Cole
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Climatic extremes
ISBN : 9781439049136
FUNDAMENTALS OF EXTREME WEATHER, International Edition is a unique textbook solution for the fast-growing market of non-majors science courses focused on extreme weather. With strong foundational coverage of the science of meteorology, FUNDAMENTALS OF EXTREME WEATHER, International Edition introduces the causes and impacts of extreme weather events and conditions. Students learn the science of meteorology in context of important and often familiar weather events such as Hurricane Katrina and they'll explore how forecast changes in climate may influence frequency and/or intensity of future extreme weather events. An exciting array of photos and illustrations brings the intensity of weather and its sometimes devasting impact to every chapter.Written by a respected and unique author team, this book blends coverage found in Don Ahren's market-leading texts with insights and technology support contributed by co-author Perry Samson. Professor Samson has developed an Extreme Weather course at the University of Michigan that is the fastest-growing science course at the university.
Author : Prentice Hall PTR
Publisher : Macmillan College
Page : pages
File Size : 28,45 MB
Release : 1999-04-01
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ISBN : 9780132366700
Author : Ian Roulstone
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,70 MB
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 1400846226
An accessible book that examines the mathematics of weather prediction Invisible in the Storm is the first book to recount the history, personalities, and ideas behind one of the greatest scientific successes of modern times—the use of mathematics in weather prediction. Although humans have tried to forecast weather for millennia, mathematical principles were used in meteorology only after the turn of the twentieth century. From the first proposal for using mathematics to predict weather, to the supercomputers that now process meteorological information gathered from satellites and weather stations, Ian Roulstone and John Norbury narrate the groundbreaking evolution of modern forecasting. The authors begin with Vilhelm Bjerknes, a Norwegian physicist and meteorologist who in 1904 came up with a method now known as numerical weather prediction. Although his proposed calculations could not be implemented without computers, his early attempts, along with those of Lewis Fry Richardson, marked a turning point in atmospheric science. Roulstone and Norbury describe the discovery of chaos theory's butterfly effect, in which tiny variations in initial conditions produce large variations in the long-term behavior of a system—dashing the hopes of perfect predictability for weather patterns. They explore how weather forecasters today formulate their ideas through state-of-the-art mathematics, taking into account limitations to predictability. Millions of variables—known, unknown, and approximate—as well as billions of calculations, are involved in every forecast, producing informative and fascinating modern computer simulations of the Earth system. Accessible and timely, Invisible in the Storm explains the crucial role of mathematics in understanding the ever-changing weather. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.