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The Weather Atlas / by Keith Lye.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lye, Keith.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Weather--Juvenile literature.
- Weather.
- Meteorology--Juvenile literature.
- Meteorology.
- Climatology--Juvenile literature.
- Climatology.
- Genre:
- Literature.
- Juvenile works.
- PRO Teacher, Stuart (donor) (Running Press copy)
- Physical Description:
- 32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 x 34 cm
- Distribution:
- London : Running Press,
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Running Press, 2001.
- Contents:
- The air around us
- The atmosphere
- The Sun's heat
- The moving atmosphere
- Winds
- Moisture in the air
- Rainfall
- Snow, hail and frost
- The water cycle
- Monsoons
- Depressions
- Stormy weather
- Thunderstorms
- Hurricanes
- Tornadoes
- Sandstorms and blizzards
- Heatwaves and floods
- Studying the weather
- Information from space
- Weather maps
- Weather forecasting
- Climate
- Climatic regions
- Have climates changed?
- Air pollution
- Global warming
- Weather records.
- Notes:
- "The World of Weather As You've Never Seen It Before"--Cover.
- "The wild and wonderful world of clouds, wind, rain, gales, storms, hurricanes, blizzards, tornadoes, typhoons, monsoons, drought, fog, smog, el niño, la niña, thunder, lightning, fronts, thermals, anticyclones, cyclones, ozone, frost, heatwaves, radiation, breezes."--Cover.
- "Devised and produced by The Hex Press Ltd., 1 West End, Whittlesford, Cambridge."--Title page verso
- "Art Director: Alastair Campbell. Managing Editor: Kim Yarwood. Editor: Fid Backhouse, Designer: John Carrod. Maps: Nicholas Rowland. Color separations: DPI."--Title page verso.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Running Press Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2008 by Stuart "Buz" Teacher.
- Running Press copies have dustjackets retained.
- Running Press copies are "1" printing.
- Running Press copies have 1 sheet of white paper between back free endpaper and back pastedown.
- ISBN:
- 0762409592
- 9780762409594
- OCLC:
- 46919252
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- Publisher description
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