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Peterson Field Guide to Weather - Couverture souple

Pasachoff, Jay; Day, John A.; Anderson, Gordon

 
9780547133317: Peterson Field Guide to Weather
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0547133316 ISBN 13 : 9780547133317
Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011

Synopsis

A field guide to the weather, including clouds, storm systems, and climate change

A resource for those intrigued by events in the sky—clouds, precipitation, storms, aurora, halos—and for those who follow daily weather events. Using a nontechnical approach, the authors describe the flow of energy and moisture through global and local landscapes and how they evolve into day-to-day weather. For those fascinated by the sky’s colors and patterns, there are halos, rainbows, iridescent clouds, and other tapestries in the sky. For the cloud-watcher, common and unusual cloud forms are covered; for those entranced by storms, the guide includes severe thunderstorms, winter blizzards, hurricanes, hail, ice storms, and other challenges that the atmosphere inflicts. It even includes a chapter on weather in the atmospheres of the planets and the sun. More than 400 photographs illustrate visible weather, and diagrams explain the more challenging physical concepts. This book is designed for those who want to look up, marvel, and understand what they see.

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À propos des auteurs

JAY ANDERSON is a meteorologist, formerly with the Meteorological Service of Environment Canada. He lives in Winnipeg. 



JOHN A. DAY was a weather forecaster, a professor of physics and meteorology, a researcher studying cloud physics, and an author of college texts on weather.



Jay M. Pasachoff (1943-2022) was the Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy and the Chair of the Astronomy Department at Williams College. He is the author of the Peterson Field Guide to Stars and Planets, as well as numerous textbooks and trade books on astronomy, weather, and more.

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Éditeur
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0547133316
ISBN 13 
9780547133317
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
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