Extreme Weather and Climate

C. Donald Ahrens, Perry Samson, Kevin Reed

• Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA
• eBook ISBN:
  9780357976890
• Year: 2024

Weather can be enjoyable, be merely tolerated or even change a good day to a bad one. On some occasions, it can become extreme and dramatically impact your life. Written in a friendly, easy-to-understand style, Ahrens/Samson/Reed's EXTREME WEATHER AND CLIMATE, 2nd Edition clearly explains the science of how hurricanes, tornadoes, lightning, floods and extreme temperatures can occur, how they can sometimes be life-changing and how they may be impacted by global climate change. Vividly illustrated, this text will give you a new appreciation for the power of nature.

Table of contents

• Cover
• FM
• Copyright
• Brief Contents
• Preface
• Contents
• Chapter 1: Turbulent Atmosphere
• Chapter 2: Energy That Drives the Storms
• Chapter 3: Extreme Temperature and Humidity
• Chapter 4: Condensation in the Atmosphere
• Chapter 5: Clouds and Stability
• Chapter 6: Precipitation Extremes
• Chapter 7: Motions in the Atmosphere
• Chapter 8: Wind Systems
• Chapter 9: Air Masses and Fronts
• Chapter 10: Mid-Latitude Cyclonic Storms
• Chapter 11: Thunderstorms
• Chapter 12: Tornadoes
• Chapter 13: Hurricanes
• Chapter 14: Global Climate
• Chapter 15: Earth's Changing Climate
• A Units, Conversions, and Abbreviations
• B Equations and Constants
• C Weather Symbols and the Station Model
• D Humidity and Dew-Point Tables (Psychrometric Tables)
• E Köppen's Climatic Classification System
• F Average Annual Global Precipitation
• Additional Reading Material
• Glossary
• Index