Guide to Weather Forecasting: All the Information You'll Need to Make Your Own Weather Forecast (Firefly Pocket series)

Dunlop, Storm

ISBN 10: 1554073693 / ISBN 13: 9781554073696

Verlag: Firefly Books, 2008

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A concise guide to weather systems and weather forecasting.

As recent events have shown, weather can have very different consequences depending on where you live. b>Guide to Weather Forecasting covers every aspect of making a forecast and is a handy resource to understanding the professionals' daily weather predictions.

Storm Dunlop provides detailed information and expert explanations, including:

What causes weather

Weather systems and how they change

Recognizing clouds and sky appearance

Weather conditions, such as depressions, lows and highs, wind systems and direction, dew point, humidity, visibility, frost, anticyclones and snow

The readings meteorologists use when developing a forecast

Extreme weather and climate change

Guide to Weather Forecasting also covers charts, satellite images and instruments that can be used at home. With its many color photographs and diagrams, handy glossary and useful index, this is an ideal quick reference for the amateur and semiprofessional weather forecaster.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Storm Dunlop is a well-known authority on meteorology and astronomy and is the author ofPractical Astronomy.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Guide to Weather Forecasting: All the ...
Verlag: Firefly Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good