Making Sense of Weather and Climate : : The Science Behind the Forecasts /

Making Sense of Weather and Climate : : The Science Behind the Forecasts / / Mark Denny.

Show other versions (1)

How do meteorologists design forecasts for the next day's, the next week's, or the next month's weather? Are some forecasts more likely to be accurate than others, and why? Making Sense of Weather and Climate takes readers through key topics in atmospheric physics and presents a cogen...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
VerfasserIn:
Denny, Mark,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Online Access:
Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 90 charts, photographs, and figures
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Author's Note
  • Acknowledgments
  • Forecast
  • 1. Feeling the Heat
  • 2. Under the Heavens and the Seas
  • 3. The Air We Breathe
  • 4. Dynamic Planet
  • 5. Oceans of Data
  • 6. Statistically Speaking
  • 7. A Condensed Account of Clouds, Rain, and Snow
  • 8. Weather Mechanisms
  • 9. Weather Extremes: The New Normal
  • 10. The World of Weather Forecasting
  • And That Wraps Up Your Weather for Today
  • Appendix
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Similar Items