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The Little Book of Weather.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scaife, Adam.
- Series:
- Little Books of Nature Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (161 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- A charming, richly illustrated, pocket-size exploration of the world’s weatherPacked with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile anyone who is curious about weather. Expertly written and beautifully illustrated throughout with color photographs and original color artwork, The Little Book of Weather is an accessible and enjoyable mini-reference about the world’s weather, with examples drawn from across the globe. It fits an astonishing amount of information in a small package, covering a wide range of topics—from weather forecasting and extreme events such as hurricanes and typhoons to the future of weather with climate change. It also includes curious facts, myths, and history—from whether animals can predict the weather to the bad weather that helped doom Napoleon and Hitler’s invasions of Russia and the Soviet Union. The result is an irresistible guide to the amazing world of weather.A beautifully designed pocket-size book with a foil-stamped cloth coverFeatures some 140 color illustrations and photosMakes a perfect gift
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Weather Basics
- The atmosphere is a fluid
- Pressure
- Temperature
- Troposphere
- Stratosphere
- Mesosphere
- 2. Winds
- Going around in circles
- Storm tracks
- It's all about which way the wind blows
- Hadley cells
- Sea breezes
- Katabatic and anabatic winds
- 3. Weather Phenomena
- Clouds
- Rain
- Rainbows
- Hail
- Snow
- Thunder and lightning
- 4. Extreme Weather
- Tornadoes
- Hurricanes and typhoons
- Extreme rainfall and floods
- Droughts
- Extreme rainfall and landslides
- What's possible?
- 5. Weather Patterns
- North Atlantic Oscillation
- El Niño and La Niña
- Madden-Julian Oscillation
- Sudden stratospheric warming
- Quasi-biennial Oscillation
- Pacific and Atlantic variability
- 6. Weather and Historical Events
- D-day landings
- Pests and plagues
- Napoleon and 1812
- History repeats itself
- 1877, El Niño
- The 1930s Dust Bowl
- 7. The Distant Past
- Ancient Earth
- The migrating Moon
- Milankovitch cycles
- Dansgaard-Oeschger and Bond events
- Ice ages
- The last millennium
- 8. Weather Forecasts
- Origins of forecasts
- L. F. Richardson
- Computer-based forecasts
- Chaos
- Long-range forecasts
- Artificial intelligence
- 9. Climate Change
- Not a new idea
- Greenhouse gases
- Global warming
- Future heatwaves
- Future rainfall
- Future tropical storms
- 10. Myths and Folklore
- Bathtubs and plugholes
- Can it rain frogs?
- Red sky at night ...
- Lightning never strikes twice
- Can animals predict the weather?
- Special weather days?
- 11. Curious Facts
- Gigantism in insects
- Length of day
- Ionosphere
- Space weather
- Sting jets
- Global connections
- 12. The Future
- Where is the weather heading?
- Hidden surprises?
- Future forecasts
- Geoengineering
- Weather on other planets
- The end of weather.
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Scaife, Adam The Little Book of Weather
- ISBN:
- 9780691260167
- OCLC:
- 1443081123
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