Teach Yourself Understand The Weather

Teach Yourself Understand The Weather - Book

Understand the Weather is a comprehensive and practical guide to the workings of the atmosphere. It will ensure that you not only understand what causes changes in the weather on a local, national and global scale but that you can also fully interpret weather broadcasts and are able to make your own predictions.

Packed full of case studies, Teach Yourself Understand The Weather will explain both the weather we experience daily (winds, cold fronts, rain and shine) and the extreme weather that makes the headlines all too often (El Nino, Hurricane Katrina, floods). It will also focus on climate change and its effects - how will our weather be different in the future? Whether your job or leisure pursuits rely on the weather, or you just want to understand more about it, Teach Yourself Understand The Weather is ideal.

- Includes a foreword by Michael Fish.
- This book will ensure you understand the weather on a global and local scale.
- A practical book that will show you how to predict the weather yourself. Ideal for those who rely on the weather - sailors, gardeners, farmers etc.
- This book also focuses on climate change and the weather in the future.


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Teach Yourself Understand The Weather

Summary of contents:

Introduction / 1. A survey of the atmosphere / 2. The global circulation / 3. Weather systems / 4. Local weather effects / 5. Wild weather / 6. Observing the weather / 7. Forecasting the weather 1: operational weather forecasting / 8. Forecasting the weather 2: making your own forecasts / 9. The weather in the future - climate change / Taking it further / Index

Publisher: Teach Yourself
Author: Peter Inness
Media Type: Paperback Book
ISBN-13: 9781444103106
Language: English

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