ESSENTIALS OF METEOROLOGY: AN INVITATION TO THE ATMOSPHERE, Ninth Edition, is written for students interested in gaining insights into the dynamic workings of the atmosphere. The authors' ability to explain even complicated ideas in an easy-to-understand way enables both science and non-science majors to visualize and understand important principles of meteorology. Online animations help bring text material to life and make it easier to understand the underlying concepts, and appendices offer the chance for in-depth exploration of meteorological data, such as world temperature and precipitation extremes over a 30-year period.
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Publisher
Cengage Learning EMEAeBook ISBN
9780357857656
Year
2023Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents in Brief
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Earth's Atmosphere
- Chapter 2: Warming and Cooling Earth and Its Atmosphere
- Chapter 3: Air Temperature
- Chapter 4: Humidity, Condensation, and Clouds
- Chapter 5: Cloud Development andĀ Precipitation
- Chapter 6: Air Pressure and Winds
- Chapter 7: Atmospheric Circulations
- Chapter 8: Air Masses, Fronts, and Middle-Latitude Cyclones
- Chapter 9: Weather Forecasting
- Chapter 10: Thunderstorms and Tornadoes
- Chapter 11: Hurricanes
- Chapter 12: Global Climate
- Chapter 13: Earth's Changing Climate
- Chapter 14: Air Pollution
- Chapter 15: Light, Color, and Atmospheric Optics
- Appendices
- Additional Reading Material
- Glossary
- Index
- Cloud Chart