{"title":"Meteorology and climatology Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"reading-the-glass-a-sailors-stories-of-weather-9781529369335","title":"Reading the Glass: A Sailor's Stories of Weather","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003eBrimming with knowledge and experience . . . delightful' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An extraordinary book by a modern-day Melville whose deep knowledge, boundless curiosity and endearingly wry humour make him the perfect guide to the world beyond our shores' Mark Vanhoenacker, author of \u003ci\u003eSkyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Relatable, reflective, and humorous . . .  a genuinely immersive read' \u003ci\u003eCountryman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat's in a cloud? What separates a tropical storm from a winter blizzard? And what exactly is El Niño? Elliot Rappaport, a professional captain of traditional sailing ships, has spent three decades at sea, where understanding weather could be the difference between life and death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Told through a series of tall ship voyages, Rappaport's narrative takes readers from the icy seas of Greenland to the Roaring Forties, places where one can experience all four seasons in an hour. He navigates the turbulent waters of the Strait of Gibraltar, en route to storied port cities of the Mediterranean. In the vast tropical Pacific, he crosses the equator, where heat, moisture, and unsettled winds churn out powerful squalls, and drops anchor in isolated ports of call. He explores wide swathes of ocean to explain how the trade winds have carried ships westward for centuries, and how ancient Polynesian explorers pushed back the other way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Written in stunning prose, brimming with wisdom, curiosity, and humour, \u003ci\u003eReading the Glass\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly blends science and memoir to reveal how weather has shaped our oceans, our history, and ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach chapter is \u003cb\u003ebrimming with knowledge and experience\u003c\/b\u003e. Rappaport can really write - and he's done his research too . . . Some of the most \u003cb\u003edelightful \u003c\/b\u003epassages have little to do with the sea or weather. They come when we get a real sense of what it's like to lead a crew at sea, and, equally interestingly, when moored up . . . \u003ci\u003eReading the Glass \u003c\/i\u003ewill be \u003cb\u003ea must-have \u003c\/b\u003efor serious weather-watchers or sailors with aspirations. -- Tristan Gooley * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eEvokes panoramas of sea and land with \u003cb\u003econfident flair\u003c\/b\u003e * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003eRelatable, reflective, and humorous . . . descriptive and insightful, it is perfect for those who love the sea, and wish to know more about the adventures of those who sail upon it . . . \u003cb\u003ea genuinely immersive read\u003c\/b\u003e * Countryman *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn extraordinary book by a modern-day Melville\u003c\/b\u003e whose deep knowledge, boundless curiosity and endearingly wry humour make him the perfect guide to the world beyond our shores. Elliot Rappaport has completely transformed my awareness of the vast reaches of water that dominate our planet's surface, and of the debt we all owe to our ancestors who made a science and an art out of crossing them. I can't recommend this book highly enough -- Mark Vanhoenacker, author of SKYFARING\u003cbr\u003eWe live on a planet - easy to forget in your secure suburban home, but not out on the open sea. The author provides \u003cb\u003ea gripping account of what weather is, how it feels to be in the middle of it, and what we can expect going forward!\u003c\/b\u003e -- Bill McKibben, author of THE END OF NATURE\u003cbr\u003ePart Bill Nye, part Captain Cook, Elliot Rappaport leads an around-the-world adventure filled with eye-popping insights from the deepest depths to the high atmosphere. For those of us too chicken to cross thousands of miles on ships, Rappaport's action-packed logbook is \u003cb\u003efull of history, wisdom, and hilarious stories from life on the open seas\u003c\/b\u003e -- Daniel Stone, author of THE FOOD EXPLORER\u003cbr\u003eVeteran captain Elliot Rappaport knows firsthand how winds, storms, and currents affect boats, from the smallest dinghies to great ocean liners. Here, he uses his considerable literary gifts to turn meteorology into a living science . . . While sailors will relate at once to Rappaport's prose, this book is\u003cb\u003e a must-read even for landlubbers\u003c\/b\u003e -- Mark Knoblauch * Booklist *\u003cbr\u003eRappaport, who has been a sea captain since 1992 and teaches at the Maine Maritime Academy, makes his book debut with vibrant accounts of sailing around the world. Central to his \u003cb\u003espirited, informative\u003c\/b\u003e narrative is weather . . . Fascinating journeys with an expert guide * Kirkus *\u003cbr\u003eI loved this book. What \u003cb\u003ea fabulous compendium\u003c\/b\u003e it is of terror and disaster, expertise and courage, by a man who knows with true intimacy what he calls \"the vast planetary engine\" of the weather. Chapter after chapter is filled with a vivid sense of being out at sea in storm and calm and every page has his decades of lived life embedded in it, years and years of looking, responding, making the good and necessary decisions. It feels written, in other words, by a man you would be more than happy to go to sea with -- Adam Nicolson, author of LIFE BETWEEN THE TIDES","brand":"Hodder \u0026 Stoughton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47851533467991,"sku":"9781529369335","price":19.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781529369335.jpg?v=1710638492"},{"product_id":"the-last-winter-9781472270900","title":"The Last Winter","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In the last fifty years, the Northern Hemisphere lost a million square miles of spring snowpack, and high-elevation snowpacks in the western United States have decreased by nearly half since 1982. On average, winter has shrunk by a month in most northern latitudes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this deeply researched, beautifully written, and adventure-filled book, journalist Porter Fox travels along the edge of the Northern Hemisphere''s snow line to track the scope of this drastic change and how it will literally change everything-from rapid sea level rise, to fresh water scarcity for two billion people, to massive greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost, and several climate tipping points that could very well spell the end of our world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis original research is animated by four harrowing and illuminating journeys-each grounded by interviews with idiosyncratic, charismatic experts in their respective fields and Fox''s own narrative of growing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003edeeply researched, beautifully written, adventure-filled book * Traveller magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore the snowpack vanishes and the glaciers melt away, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Winter\u003c\/i\u003e takes us on a tour of all we are poised to lose - the beauties and elations and wonders, both natural and human, to be found in frigid latitudes and altitudes. Fox writes perceptively and knowledgably but also lovingly about the places and people he encounters along the way .\u003c\/p\u003e -- Donovan Hohn, author of MOBY-DUCK AND THE INNER COAST\u003cbr\u003eAs winter vanishes, so do the many cultures forged by glacier, ice floe, and permafrost. Porter Fox has written an imaginative and deeply personal travelogue that reveals how climate change is not only a threat to our future, but a threat to our past. -- Nathaniel Rich, author of LOSING EARTH\u003cbr\u003eThe importance of ice was not as clear to me as it should have been. It is now. This is a rousing, literate, multi-continental tour of the cryosphere. Check it out: the end of winter, if we fail to prevent it, will be the end of the world as we know it. -- William Finnegan, author of BARBARIAN DAYS\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Last Winter\u003c\/i\u003e is poised to become a landmark text in climate change literature. It ' s filled with often gorgeous prose and fascinating, indelible characters who seem to have gone AWOL from a Paul Theroux or Peter Mathiessen novel. Riveting, unforgettable, and important . -- Tom Bissell, author of APOSTLE","brand":"Headline Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47851747246423,"sku":"9781472270900","price":17.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781472270900.jpg?v=1710643719"},{"product_id":"weather-prediction-what-everyone-needs-to-know-9780197652121","title":"Weather Prediction What Everyone Needs to Know","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeather has always affected human life. Understanding how weather events form and predicting what kind of weather is coming can help enormously to manage weather-risk and will become even more important as we shift towards strongly weather-dependent energy sources. Some big steps forward in numerical weather prediction have been made in the past 40 years, thanks to advances in four key areas: the way we observe the Earth, the scientific understanding of the phenomena, advances in high-performance computing (that have allowed the use of increasingly complex models), and improved modelling techniques. Today we are capable of predicting extreme events such as hurricanes and extra-tropical windstorms very accurately up to 7 to 10 days ahead. We can predict the most likely path and intensity of storms before they hit a community, estimate the confidence level of the forecast, and can give very valuable indications of their probable impact. Larger-scale phenomena that affect entire countries\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface   1 Weather And Climate  1.1 What Is The Key Difference Between Weather And Climate?  1.2 Do Weather And Climate Vary Spatially And Temporally?  1.3 Is There A Clear Separation Between Weather And Climate?  1.4 Is Weather Affected By All (Small-And-Fast And Large-And-Slow) Phenomena?  1.5 Which Coordinate System Is Used To Study Atmospheric And Oceanic Motions?  1.6 What Are The Key Weather Variables?  1.7 Why Does Weather Change?  1.8 How Are Motions In The Atmosphere Generated?  1.9 Key Points Discussed In Chapter One 'Weather And Climate'   2 The Earth System  2.1 What Does 'Earth System' Mean In Numerical Weather Prediction?  2.2 What Is An Accurate And Skilful Forecast?  2.3 What Are The Key Building Blocks Of An Earth System Model?  2.4 What Are The Key Processes Simulated By An Earth System Model?  2.5 How Is Heat Transported And Exchanged In The Earth System?  2.6 Where Does The Energy That Drives The Earth Climate Come From?  2.7 What Are The Key Similarities And Differences Of The Atmosphere And The Ocean?  2.8 Key Points Discussed In Chapter Two 'The Earth-System'   3 Observing The Earth System  3.1 Why Do We Need Observations?  3.2 What Are The Key Observation Types?  3.3 Are Observations Affected By Errors?  3.4 How Do Observation Information And Errors Propagate?  3.5 Did Covid Affect Weather Forecast Quality?  3.6 How Do We Observe The State Of The Atmosphere Using Satellites?  3.7 Do We Have Enough Observations To Determine The State Of The Earth-System?  3.8 Is It Important To Observe The Whole Atmosphere? 3.9 Key Points Discussed In Chapter Three 'Observing The Earth System'   4 Modelling The Earth System  4.1 From Where Should We Start To Model The Earth System? 4.2 What Are The State Variables Of A System?  4.3 How Many Variables Define The State Of The Whole Earth System?  4.4 What Is An Equation?  4.5 What Are Analytical And Numerical Solutions Of An Equation?  4.6 How Do We Deduce The Equations Used To Predict The Weather And The Climate?  4.7 What Is An Example Of A Set Of Equations That Can Predict The Weather?  4.8 How Do We Solve The Primitive Equations? 4.9 What Is The Difference Between A Prognostic And A Diagnostic Equation?  4.10 Can We Use Simple Models To Understand The Behaviour Of Complex Systems?  4.11 Key Points Discussed In Chapter Four 'Modelling The Earth System'   5 Numerical Weather Prediction 5.1 How Do We Solve Numerically The Primitive Equations? 5.2 What Are The Key Steps Involved In Operational Weather Prediction?  5.3 How Do We Determine The Initial Conditions?  5.4 What Is Data Assimilation?  5.5 Do We Need A Super-Computer For Numerical Weather Prediction?  5.6 Do We Need An Earth-System Model To Predict The Weather?  5.7 What Are The Key Differences Between A Global And A Limited-Area Model?  5.8 How Can We Assess Whether A Model Is Realistic And Accurate?  5.9 How Much Data Is Involved In Weather Prediction?  5.10 Key Points Discussed In Chapter Five 'Numerical Weather Prediction'   6 Chaos And Weather Prediction  6.1 What Is A Chaotic System?  6.2 What Is The Lorenz' 3-Dimensional Model? 6.3 What Is The 'Butterfly Effect'? 6.4 What Are The Sources Of Forecast Error?  6.5 How Can We Reduce Initial Condition Uncertainties? 6.6 How Can We Reduce Model Uncertainties? 6.7 How Do We Measure Forecast Errors? 6.8 What Is An Ensemble? 6.9 Are Ensemble Forecasts More Valuable Than Single Ones? 6.10 Key Points Discussed In Chapter Six 'Chaos And Weather Prediction'  7 Dealing With Uncertainties And Probabilistic Forecasting 7.1 How Do We Build An 'Accurate And Reliable' Ensemble? 7.2 What Is A Probabilistic Forecast? 7.3 How Can We Communicate Forecast Uncertainty? 7.4 How Can We Take Decisions Using Probabilistic Forecasts? 7.5 What Is A Scenario Forecast? 7.6 What Is A Cluster Analysis? 7.7 How Do We Measure The Accuracy And Reliability Of A Probabilistic Forecast? 7.8 What Are Reforecasts And Reanalyses? 7.9 Why Are Reanalyses And Reforecasts Useful? 7.10 Key Points Discussed In Chapter Seven 'Dealing With Uncertainties And Probabilistic Forecasting'  8 The Forecast Skill Horizon 8.1 Are Weather Forecasts More Accurate And Reliable Today Than In The Past? 8.2 How Did We Succeed To Improve The Accuracy And Reliability Of Weather Forecasts? 8.3 Can We Visualize In A Single Diagram Our Prediction Capabilities? 8.4 Why Does The Forecast Skill Depend On The Phenomena We Are Trying To Predict? 8.5 Are Extreme Events More Difficult To Predict Than The 'Normal' Weather? 8.6 What Is The Minimum Spatial Scale That A Model Can Simulate Realistically? 8.7 What Is The Minimum Spatial Scale Properly Resolved In Data Assimilation? 8.8 How Can We Further Extend Predictability? 8.9 Key Points Discussed In Chapter Eight 'The Forecast Skill Horizon'  9 Climate Change And Numerical Weather Prediction 9.1 Why Should We Talk About Climate Change In This Book? 9.2 What Is The Greenhouse Effect? 9.3 What Is The State Of The Climate? 9.4 How Much Greenhouse Gases Do We Emit In The Atmosphere? 9.5 Is There A Link Between Greenhouse Gas Emissions And Average Global Warming? 9.6 Are We Responsible For Climate Change? 9.7 What Are The Key Sources Of Uncertainty Affecting Climate Predictions? 9.8 What Do We Mean With 'Initial Value' And 'Boundary Condition' Problems?  9.9 Has Climate Change Impacted Weather Prediction?  9.10 Has Numerical Weather Prediction Helped Understanding Climate Change?  9.11 Which Aspects Of The Future Climate Can We Predict?  9.12 Key Points Discussed In Chapter Nine 'Climate Change And Numerical Weather Prediction'  10 A Look Into The Future  10.1 What Are The Focus Areas Of Research In Numerical Weather Prediction?  10.2 What Is An Earth Digital Twin? 10.3 Will We Be Able To Continue To Improve The Quality Of Weather Forecasts?  10.4 Will We Ever Be Able To Issue A 'Perfect' Forecast?  10.5 In 2050, Will We Be Able To Predict The Local Weather Of The Next Season?  10.6 Can Artificial Intelligence Lead To Improve Predictions?  10.7 What Is An 'Environmental Prediction Model'?  10.8 Is Weather Prediction Evolving Into Environmental Prediction?  10.9 As Global Models Keep Increasing Resolution, Will We Still Use Limited-Area Model?  10.10 Would A Future Operational Suite Look Very Different From Today's One?  10.11 Key Points Discussed In Section 10 'A Look Into The Future'  Essential Glossary  Further Reading  Useful Links  The Author","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732668232023,"sku":"9780197652121","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197652121.jpg?v=1719997873"},{"product_id":"durham-weather-and-climate-since-1841-9780198870517","title":"Durham Weather and Climate since 1841","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe British have always been obsessed by the weather. Astronomers at Durham Observatory began weather observations in 1841; weather records continue unbroken to this day, one of the longest continuous series of single-site weather records in Europe. Durham Weather and Climate since 1841 represents the first full publication of this newly digitised record of English weather, which will be of lasting appeal to interested readers and climate researchers alike. The book celebrates 180 years of weather in north-east England by describing how the records were (and are) made and the people who made them, examines monthly and seasonal weather patterns and extremes across two centuries, and considers long-term climate change. Local documentary sources and contemporary photographs bring the statistics to life, from the great flood of 1771 and skating on the frozen River Wear in February 1895 right up to Durham''s hottest-ever day in July 2019 and its wettest winter in 2021. Extensive links are provided to full daily weather records back to 1843. This volume is a sister publication to Oxford Weather and Climate since 1767 by the same authors, published by Oxford University Press in 2019.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGroundbreaking book on climate...The book includes 11 detailed appendixes, and the Stephen and Tim employ statistical methodology suitable for study in college statistics courses. This volume will prove indispensable for research universities and teaching colleges with programs in environmental science. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003eIn this groundbreaking book on climate, Stephen Burt (Univ. of Reading) and Tim Burt (emer., Durham Univ.) consider data gathered for 180 years, from 1843 to the present, at the Durham University Observatory. This is the longest single-site meteorological study in northern England and among the lengthiest in all of Western Europe. * J. P. Davis, Hopkinsville Community College, CHOICE connect *\u003cbr\u003eThis book represents climatology at its best, particularly through the efforts to improve the homogeneity of past records and to present them in a single publication. The value of the observations to us is probably beyond the imagination of the original observers. * Julian Mayes, Weather, August 2022 *\u003cbr\u003eDurham University has a venerable history of observational climate science. When Gordon Manley, perhaps the greatest British climatologist of the 20th century, arrived in Durham in 1928 to establish the Department of Geography, he resolved to place the Durham Observatory weather records on the same basis as those of the Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford, which had long been recognised as a valuable resource. This book updates and extends Manley's pioneering work. * Karen O'Brien, Vice-Chancellor, Durham University *\u003cbr\u003eThis definitive book beautifully discusses the variations in the weather and climate in Durham over nearly two centuries, including all the highs and lows. The long-term view provided by these detailed records clearly highlights the warming of our climate and the fingerprint of human influence on our weather, even at this local scale. * Ed Hawkins MBE, University of Reading, UK *\u003cbr\u003eThis lovingly-crafted history will be the envy of all long-term weather stations around the world. Tim and Stephen have respectfully interpreted the painstaking efforts of those who came before them, delivering an engaging and useful volume which transports you to the University grounds throughout the seasons and the decades. As the Earth continues to warm, these kinds of careful histories will only become more important. * Linden Ashcroft, The University of Melbourne, Australia *\u003cbr\u003eDurham Weather and Climate since 1841 undertakes a comprehensive rescue and analysis of this hugely valuable long-term meteorological station record including an in-depth reconstruction of the station history. The resulting meticulous data analysis provides key new insights into long-term UK climate changes that are essential to understanding our rapidly changing climate. * Peter Thorne, ICARUS Climate Research Centre, Maynooth University, Ireland *\u003cbr\u003eClimate science relies on long, carefully re-evaluated meteorological records. It is this long-term view that allows changes in weather and climate to be assessed and put into perspective. In Durham Weather and Climate since 1841, Tim Burt and Stephen Burt, two widely-known experts in the field, present another long record. The book describes the history of weather and climate in northern England and the role of weather in daily lives. It tells the story of meteorological measurements in Durham, which at the same time is a story about astronomy, the University and about the life-long dedication of individuals such as Gordon Manley - and the authors of this book. * Stefan Brönnimann, University of Bern, Switzerland *\u003cbr\u003eDurham has long been known for its eminence in meteorology and climatology. In this beautifully illustrated volume, Stephen Burt and Tim Burt place Durham's long record of observations in their complete historical and social context. They describe the struggles and accomplishments of the observers, both the famous and those who quietly carried out their daily duties. Burt and Burt take these centuries' worth of observations and turn them into analytical descriptions of Durham's climate, month by month and season by season, linking climatic events with citizen's daily lives. Packed with statistics, meteorological and climatological analysis, and historical commentary, this will be of interest to anyone interested in long-term climate change, observational records, historical climatology, weather analysis and the history of meteorology. * Victoria Slonosky, McGill University, Montreal, Canada *\u003cbr\u003eDurham provides an excellent record for discussing climate change in north-east England and for a wider area. * Chris Folland, Met Office, Exeter, UK *\u003cbr\u003eWhile the Durham record is less well-known than the Oxford one, it is still impressive and its analysis will give a picture of a very different location. Climate change is an increasingly significant issue. The volume is very timely. * Andrew Goudie, University of Oxford *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 1 Durham's weather and climate 1: Durham - its regional, economic and physical setting 2: Meteorological observations in Durham Part 2 Durham weather through the year 3: The annual cycle 4: January 5: February 6: March 7: April 8: May 9: June 10: July 11: Aaugust 12: September 13: October 14: November 15: December 16: The calender year Part 3 Durham weather through the seasons 17: Winter:  December, January and February 18: Spring: March, April and May 19: Summer: June, July and August 20: Autumn: September, October, November Part 4 Long-term climate change in Durham 21: Climate change in Durham 22: Chronology of notable weather events in and around Durham Part 5 Durham weather averages and extremes 23: Warmest, driest, sunniest 24: Temperature extremes in Durham 25: Precipitation extremes in Durham 26: Sunshine extremes in Durham 27: Barometric pressure extremes in Durham APPENDICES Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3 Appendix 4 Appendix 5 Appendix 6 Appendix 7 Appendix 8 Appendix 9 Appendix 10 Appendix 11","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732824240471,"sku":"9780198870517","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"weather-9780199571314","title":"Weather","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom deciding the best day for a picnic, to the devastating effects of hurricanes and typhoons, the weather impacts our lives on a daily basis. Although new techniques allow us to forecast the weather with increasing accuracy, most people do not realise the vast global movements and forces which result in their day-to-day weather.In this Very Short Introduction Storm Dunlop explains what weather is and how it differs from climate, discussing what causes weather, and how we measure it. Analysing the basic features and properties of the atmosphere, he shows how these are directly related to the weather experienced on the ground, and to specific weather phenomena and extreme weather events. He describes how the global patterns of temperature and pressure give rise to the overall circulation within the atmosphere, the major wind systems, and the major oceanic currents, and how features such as mountains and the sea affect local weather. He also looks at examples of extreme and dangerous weather, such as of tropical cyclones (otherwise known as hurricanes and typhoons), describing how ''Hurricane Hunters'' undertake the dangerous task of flying through them.We measure weather in a number of ways: observations taken on the land and sea; observations within the atmosphere; and measurements from orbiting satellites. Dunlop concludes by looking at how these observations have been used to develop increasingly sophisticated long- and short-range weather forecasting, including ensemble forecasting.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe perfect introduction to one of the most fascinating topics. * Professor Liz Bentley, Chief Executive, Royal Meteorological Society *\u003cbr\u003eThough the book is small ... there's plenty of information in here, illustrated with black and white diagrams and photography. * TGO The Great Outdoors *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREFERENCES; FURTHER READING; INDEX","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732866773335,"sku":"9780199571314","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780199571314.jpg?v=1719998732"},{"product_id":"the-climate-of-history-in-a-planetary-age-9780226100500","title":"The Climate of History in a Planetary Age","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With his new masterwork, Chakrabarty confirms that he is one of the most creative and philosophically-minded historians writing today. The oppositions he proposes between the \u003ci\u003eglobal\u003c\/i\u003e of globalization and the \u003ci\u003eglobal\u003c\/i\u003e of global warming, between the \u003ci\u003eworld\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eplanet\u003c\/i\u003e, between \u003ci\u003esustainability\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ehabitability\u003c\/i\u003e are illuminating and effective for thinking and acting through our highly uncertain and disoriented times.” * François Hartog, author of 'Chronos' *\u003cbr\u003e“One of the first thinkers to reckon with the concept of the Anthropocene and its relation to humanism and its critics, Chakrabarty forges new territory in his account of the planetary. If globalism was an era of human and market interconnection, the planetary marks the intrusion of geological forces, transforming both the concept of ‘the human’ and its accompanying sense of agency. This is a tour de force of critical thinking that will prove to be a game changer for the humanities.” * Claire Colebrook, Pennsylvania State University *\u003cbr\u003e\"Historian Dipesh Chakrabarty confronts the ‘planeticide’ by calling for a humanistic and critical approach to the Anthropocene. . . . Ever alert to the holistic and far reaching vision upheld by ‘deep history,’ the Chicago professor re-raises the old question of the human condition in the new framework of the geobiological history of the planet.\" * Arquitectura Viva *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Climate of History in a Planetary Age,\u003c\/i\u003e by Dipesh Chakrabarty, is in my judgment the most compelling and encompassing book by a humanist on the complexities and asymmetries of the Anthropocene to date.\" * The Contemporary Condition *\u003cbr\u003e“For Chakrabarty, ‘global’ does not refer to the entirety of the world, but rather to a particular mode of thought. . . . In critiquing the global, Chakrabarty offers another mode of thinking that can perhaps provide the philosophical grounding for a truly ecological approach. He terms it the ‘planetary.’ Chakrabarty argues the ‘planetary’ is not a unified totality, but rather ‘a dynamic ensemble of relationships.’ While the global mode of thought retains the centrality of the human observer, the planetary mode of thought decentres the human and its apprehension of the world. The human becomes only one node within a much more complex and multivalent system of actors, both human and non-human.” -- Christopher McAteer * Green European Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eThe Climate of History in a Planetary Age\u003c\/i\u003e, University of Chicago historian and theorist Dipesh Chakrabarty provides an expansive, but hardly exhaustive, overview of the Anthropocene, focusing on how historians, in particular, have grappled with the conditions of a world under physical duress. As humans have become a 'geological force' in this new epoch and the earth has itself become an archive, with human behavior imprinted in the fossil record and ice caps, we are at the cusp of a new understanding of the agency of humankind and other terrestrial beings. This 'planetary' understanding can, in turn, offer a new ethical paradigm for inhabiting this afflicted present, and can apply to remote pasts and possible futures. Such, at least, is the hope expressed in Chakrabarty’s book.\" * The Hedgehog Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"Immensely clarifying and illuminating. . . . while Chakrabarty frequently invokes research produced by natural scientists, his argument carves out an important space for humanists in interpreting and responding to the consequences of anthropogenic geological agency.\" * Isis Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\"This book provides a thought-provoking, complex discussion of how climate change challenges the humanities, history, and the human sense of time but presupposes a command of intellectual history. . . . Overall, Chakrabarty outlines the overlapping of different histories once thought to be distinct. The planet itself, he argues, is a 'humanist category.'\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"Environmental humanists... tend to treat 'globe' and 'planet' as synonyms; Chakrabarty shows the critical and generative importance of the distinction. Evoking geological time is de rigueur; he shows what it means to dwell with that time without displacing it onto world historical time. Rapturous treatments of multispecies agency abound; he challenges the latent anthropocentrism and even paternalism of some new materialisms.\" * American Literary History *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Climate of History in a Planetary Age\u003c\/i\u003e is a breathtaking book. Chakrabarty challenges us to reimagine the human from a planetary perspective, a deep history—an infinite horizon of human history—in order to come to terms with the climate crisis that human actions have precipitated.\" * The Book Review India *\u003cbr\u003e\"Chakrabarty’s approach to the Anthropocene is a rich collage of intellectual influences primarily from India, Europe, Australia and North America. The book is an exemplary illustration that the magnitude and scope of the Anthropocene is not only challenging. For many academics, it is an inviting opportunity to take stock of one’s lessons learnt through research and personal experience. At this stage of the academic debate, the Anthropocene offers plenty of room for thematic manoeuvres. Chakrabarty displays a version of such intellectual playfulness in an overall sense-making attempt.\" * British Journal for the History of Science *\u003cbr\u003e\"It's no overstatement to think of this book as having clanged the bell for a new normal in the humanities and social sciences when it comes to telling the story of ourselves, that is, when it comes to human history. Responsible history should today be geological even when recounting the human record. Chakrabarty raised a series of open-ended, difficult questions about a range of core concerns in the humanities and social sciences from how we can understand ourselves and society to how we ought to think about political economy and morality.\" * Environmental Philosophy *\u003cbr\u003e\"Our academic engagements with law and development and social sciences more broadly must attempt to make sense of the rifts between the global and the planetary, even if such endeavours transcend and disrupt disciplinary confines and assumptions... The objective should be to displace the ideological supremacy of human species, Euroamerican and universalistic cosmologies, and simultaneously further the plurality of human-nonhuman relations, minority thought and just political action. Chakrabarty's book is one essential step in this direction.\" * Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law *\u003cbr\u003e\"In contrast to most of the interventions that we can read about the ecological catastrophe, Chakrabarty does not rush to give us solutions, but rather seeks to sharpen the problem... By locating this difficulty at the intersection of the two great critical events of our history, decolonization on the one hand and global warming on the other, and by identifying the problematic node from these two distinct figures of totalization that are globalization and planetarization, Chakrabarty inscribes himself in an original way in a body of contemporary research in which the legacy of the critique of colonization and ecological awareness are mixed... Chakrabarty is an Aufklärer, and in this book as in the previous one, a single question is at work: how to inherit the Enlightenment? How to prolong the cosmopolitical project?\" * Critique *\u003cbr\u003e\"Chakrabarty’s argument about what postcolonial studies has to offer the environmental humanities goes well beyond the established appeals to inequality that constitute climate justice discourse . . . As such, this book comes highly recommended for anyone working in the environmental humanities.\" * Ecozon@ *\u003cbr\u003e\"The new book by Dipesh Chakrabarty, \u003ci\u003eThe Climate of History in a Planetary Age\u003c\/i\u003e, is to my mind currently the best available introduction to the new challenges for political thinking in the Anthropocene.\" * Postcolonial Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"The challenge of Anthropocene research is not that it compels determining which view is the singly correct one; the challenge is that almost all views (if not all of them) are to some extent correct. How, then, do we go about addressing these multiple (potentially and partially correct) views? Open the pages of \u003ci\u003eThe Climate of History in a Planetary Age\u003c\/i\u003e and see for yourself.\" * History and Theory *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Intimations of the Planetary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Globe and the Planet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1 Four Theses\u003cbr\u003e 2 Conjoined Histories\u003cbr\u003e 3 The Planet: A Humanist Category\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: The Difficulty of Being Modern\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4 The Difficulty of Being Modern\u003cbr\u003e 5 Planetary Aspirations: Reading a Suicide in India\u003cbr\u003e 6 In the Ruins of an Enduring Fable\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Facing the Planetary\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7 Anthropocene Time\u003cbr\u003e 8 Toward an Anthropological Clearing\u003cbr\u003e Postscript: The Global Reveals the Planetary: A Conversation with Bruno Latour\u003cbr\u003e   Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732901114199,"sku":"9780226100500","price":78.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226100500.jpg?v=1719998875"},{"product_id":"climate-emergency-atlas-whats-happening-what-we-can-do-9780241446430","title":"Climate Emergency Atlas Whats Happening  What We","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOur house is on fire - it''s time to wake up to the climate crisis facing planet Earth before it''s too late. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhich countries generate the highest CO2 emissions? 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The book sheds light on our preoccupation with this natural phenomenon, providing insights into how the weather on the day we were born can directly affect our intelligence and personality, and explore such surprising findings that suicide rates peak in the spring and summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the weather affects everything from our buying behaviour, to the jobs we do, \u003cem\u003eThe Psychology of Weather\u003c\/em\u003e shows us that understanding and appreciating the weather can improve our well-being and contribute to human survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Weather and Mood \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Weather and Health \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Weather and Behaviour \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Weather and Belief \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Weather and Society \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurther reading \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737454850391,"sku":"9780815394877","price":15.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780815394877.jpg?v=1723811216"},{"product_id":"climate-change-and-land-9781009158015","title":"Climate Change and Land","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for assessing the science related to climate change. 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Sir Brian Hoskins, Imperial College London\u003cbr\u003e'Written by a team of highly regarded experts, this up-to-date book covers a very wide range of topics in the atmospheric general circulation in a well-organized fashion. The thorough treatment of both concepts and the more advanced mathematics will make this an important resource for advanced students and experienced researchers alike.' David Straus, George Mason University\u003cbr\u003e'This textbook provides a modern and comprehensive overview of the physical processes involved in the general circulation of the atmosphere. Rigorous discussions are accompanied by very clear schematics that make it easy to grasp even the most complex phenomena. It's engaging and fun … a real joy to read!' Giuseppe Torri, University of Hawaii\u003cbr\u003e'For students with some background in atmospheric dynamics, this is a landmark new textbook that provides a fascinating exploration of numerous aspects of the general circulation of the atmosphere. Wallace and co-authors expand what can be expected in a book on the general circulation, including circulations on many timescales in the tropical and extratropical troposphere and middle atmosphere, in all cases building understanding of the observed flows and physical mechanisms.' Paul O'Gorman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u003cbr\u003e'This is a truly outstanding textbook that offers a comprehensive overview of the atmospheric circulation system and its variability on a wide range of spatial\/temporal scales as well as various (thermo-) dynamical processes involved, including air-sea interaction in the Tropics, wave-mean interaction in midlatitudes and troposphere-stratosphere linkages in low and high latitudes. By praiseworthy efforts of the author team led by Mike Wallace, excellent balance is achieved between illustrating phenomena and theoretically interpretating the involved processes. Although most of the topics concern natural variability in the climate system, this book is undoubtedly beneficial for understanding the ongoing anthropogenic climate change.' Hisashi Nakamura, University of Tokyo\u003cbr\u003e'This comprehensive study of the atmospheric general circulation, from the tropics to the pole, the troposphere to the stratosphere, strikes the right balance between observation, physical intuition, and theory. The authors have succeeded in producing an excellent textbook that is up-to-date, flexibly organized, and useful for multiple different classes – undoubtedly the go-to resource for experts and students alike.' Tiffany Shaw, University of Chicago\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I. Background: 1. 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Intraseasonal variability of the tropical general circulation; 19. Higher frequency tropical weather systems; 20. Warm core tropical vortices; 21. Diurnal and higher frequency variability of the global circulation; Appendix A. Space and time averaging operations; Appendix B. The zonal momentum balance; Appendix C. Methods of identifying teleconnection patterns; Appendix D. Scaling and application of the Weak Temperature Gradient Approximation; Appendix E. Math symbols and abbreviations; Appendix F. Extended figure captions; Appendix G. 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He points out that it has an empirical body of knowledge and relies on the repeatable practices of brilliant ancient astronomers. These rules, procedures, and methodologies, perfected thousands of years ago but still understandable to this day, award that status. In this one book, a giant step in human understanding of nature’s solar system and its ultimate, supreme influence has been taken. Without doubt, it describes the genesis of all spiritual understanding and religious symbolism.” * Alison Chester-Lambert, author of Astrology Reading Cards *\u003cbr\u003e“Bruce Scofield’s book lives up to its title, \u003ci\u003eThe Nature of Astrology\u003c\/i\u003e. Building on his Ph.D. work in the geosciences (with a dissertation titled \u003ci\u003eA History and Test of Planetary Weather Forecasting\u003c\/i\u003e) at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst), Scofield discusses the scope, history, science, sociology, and philosophy of astrology. 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Introduction: Climate Change and the Law; Erkki J. Hollo, Kati Kulovesi and Michael Mehling.- Part I: Climate Law as an Emerging Discipline.- 2. Implementing Climate Law: Instrument Choice and Interaction; Michael Mehling.- 3. Exploring the Landscape of Climate Law and Scholarship: Two Emerging Trends; Kati Kulovesi.- 4. Climate Change and Justice: Perspectives of Legal Theory; Felix Ekardt.- Part II: International Climate Law.- Section I: Architecture and Institutions.- 5. Foundations of International Climate Law: Objectives, Principles and Methods; Rowena Maguire.- 6. Alternative Venues of Climate Cooperation: An Institutional Perspective; Camilla Bausch and Michael Mehling.- 7. Analyzing Soft Law and Hard Law in Climate Change; Antto Vihma.- 8. Compliance and Enforcement in the Climate Change Regime; Meinhard Doelle.- Section II: Cross-Cutting Issues.- 9. The New Framework for Climate Finance under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change: A Breakthrough or an Empty Promise?; Yulia Yamineva and Kati Kulovesi.- 10. Climate Justice: The Clean Development Mechanism as a Case Study; Tomilola Eni-ibukun.- 11. Legal Aspects of Climate Change Adaptation; Jonathan Verschuuren.- 12. Climate Change and Human Rights; Timo Koivurova, Sébastien Duyck and Leena Heinämäki.- Section III: Sectoral Issues.- 13.  Managing the Fragmentation of International Climate Law; Harro van Asselt.- 14. No Need to Reinvent the Wheel for a Human Rights-Based Approach to Tackling Climate Change: The Contribution of International Biodiversity Law; Elisa Morgera.- 15. The Role of REDD in the Harmonization of Overlapping International Obligations; Annalisa Savaresi.- 16. Climate Change and Trade: At the Intersection of Two International Legal Regimes; Kati Kulovesi.- 17. Climate Law and Geoengineering; Ralph Bodle.- Part III: Comparative Climate Law.- 18. Climate Law in the United States: Facing Structural and Procedural Barriers; Michael Mehling and David Frenkil.- 19. Canada and the Kyoto Protocol: An Aesop Fable; Jane Matthews Glenn and Jose Otero.- 20. Climate Law in the European Union: Accidental Success or Deliberate Leadership?; Michael Mehling and Kati Kulovesi.- 21. Climate Law in Germany; Felix Ekardt.- 22. Climate Law in the United Kingdom; Colin T. Reid.- 23. Climate Law and Policy in Russia: A Peasant Needs Thunder to Cross Himself and Wonder; Yulia Yamineva.- 24. Australia: From ‘No Regrets’ to A Clean Energy Future?; Sharon Mascher and David Hodgkinson.- 25. Climate Law and Policy in Japan; Hitomi Kimura.- 26. Sustainable Development and Climate Policy and Law in China; Christopher Tung.- 27. India’s Evolving Climate Change Strategy; Namrata Patodia Rastogi.- 28. Climate Change Responses in South Africa; Ed Couzens and Michael Kidd.- 29. Climate Change Policy and Legislation in Brazil; Haroldo Machado Filho.- 30. Climate Law in Latin American Countries; Soledad Aguilar and Eugenia Recio.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48743258849623,"sku":"9789400754393","price":187.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9789400754393.jpg?v=1720064813"},{"product_id":"climate-change-multidecadal-and-beyond-9789814579926","title":"Climate Change: Multidecadal And Beyond","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book focuses on two major challenges in the climate sciences: 1) to describe the decadal-to-centennial variations in instrumental and proxy records; and 2) to distinguish between anthropogenic variations and natural variability. 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Chemical Kinetics 157  9.1 Rate Expressions for Gas-Phase Reactions 157  9.1.1 Bimolecular Reactions 157  9.1.2 Three-Body Reactions 158  9.2 Reverse Reactions and Chemical Equilibria 159  9.3 Photolysis 160  9.4 Radical-Assisted Reaction Chains 161  Further Reading 163  10 - Stratospheric Ozone 164  10.1 Chapman Mechanism 164  10.1.1 The Mechanism 164  10.1.2 Steady-State Solution 166  10.2 Catalytic Loss Cycles 171  10.2.1 Hydrogen Oxide Radicals (HOx) 171  10.2.2 Nitrogen Oxide Radicals (NOx)) 172  10.2.3 Chlorine Radicals (CIOx) 177  10.3 Polar Ozone Loss 179  10.3.1 Mechanism for Ozone Loss 181  10.3.2 PSC Formation 183  10.3.3 Chronology of the Ozone Hole 185  Problems 191  10.1 Shape of the Ozone Layer 191  10.2 The Chapman Mechanism and Steady State 191  10.3 The Detailed Chapman Mechanism 192  10.4 HOx-Catalyzed Ozone Loss 193  10.5 Chlorine Chemistry at Midlatitudes 193  10.6 Partitioning of Cly 195  10.7 Bromine-Catalyzed Ozone Loss 196  10.8 Limitation of Antarctic Ozone Depletion 197  10.9 Fixing the Ozone Hole 198  10.10 PSC Formation 199  11 - Oxidizing Power of the Troposphere 200  11.1 The Hydroxyl Radical 201  11.1.1 Tropospheric Production of OH 201  11.1.2 Global Mean OH Concentration 203  11.2 Global Budgets of CO and Methane 205  11.3 Cycling of HOx and Production of Ozone 207  11.3.1 The OH Titration Problem 207  11.3.2 CO Oxidation Mechanism 207  11.3.3 Methane Oxidation Mechanism 210  11.4 Global Budget of Nitrogen Oxides 212  11.5 Global Budget of Tropospheric Ozone 215  11.6 Anthropogenic Influence on Ozone and OH 216  Further Reading 219  Problems 219  11.1 Sources of CO 219  11.2 Sources of Tropospheric Ozone 220  11.3 Oxidizing Power of the Atmosphere 221  11.4 OH Concentrations in the Past 223  11.5 Acetone in the Upper Troposphere 223  11.6 Transport, Rainout, and Chemistry in the Marine  Upper Troposphere 225  11.7 Bromine Chemistry in the Troposphere 227  11.8 Nighttime Oxidation of NOx 228  11.9 Peroxyacetylnitrate (PAN) as a Reservoir for NOx 229  12 - Ozone Air Pollution 231  12.1 Air Pollution and Ozone 231  12.2 Ozone Formation and Control Strategies 233  12.3 Ozone Production Efficiency 240  Further Reading 242  Problems 242  12.1 NOx- and Hydrocarbon-Limited Regimes for Ozone Production 242  12.2 Ozone Titration in a Fresh Plume 243  13 - 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Surface temperatures \u003c\/i\u003e99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e5.6.2 Soil temperatures \u003c\/i\u003e100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e5.6.3 Ground heat flux density \u003c\/i\u003e100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Humidity 103\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1 Water vapour as a gas 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 Physical measures of humidity 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e6.2.1 Absolute humidity \u003c\/i\u003e106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e6.2.2 Specific humidity \u003c\/i\u003e106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e6.2.3 Relative humidity \u003c\/i\u003e107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e6.2.4 Dew point and wet bulb temperature \u003c\/i\u003e107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3 Hygrometers and their operating principles 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e6.3.1 Mechanical \u003c\/i\u003e109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e6.3.2 Chemical \u003c\/i\u003e111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e6.3.3 Electronic \u003c\/i\u003e111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e6.3.4 Spectroscopic \u003c\/i\u003e112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e6.3.5 Radio refractive index \u003c\/i\u003e113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e6.3.6 Dew point meter \u003c\/i\u003e114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e6.3.7 Psychrometer \u003c\/i\u003e114\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.4 Practical psychrometers 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e6.4.1 Effect of temperature uncertainties \u003c\/i\u003e118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e6.4.2 Ventilation effects \u003c\/i\u003e118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e6.4.3 Freezing of the wet bulb \u003c\/i\u003e120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.5 Hygrometer calibration using salt solutions 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.6 Comparison of hygrometry techniques 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Atmospheric Pressure 123\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 Introduction 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 Barometers 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e7.2.1 Liquid barometers \u003c\/i\u003e124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e7.2.2 Mercury barometers \u003c\/i\u003e125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e7.2.3 Hypsometer \u003c\/i\u003e127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e7.2.4 Aneroid barometers \u003c\/i\u003e127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e7.2.5 Precision aneroid barometers \u003c\/i\u003e128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e7.2.6 Flexible diaphragm sensors \u003c\/i\u003e129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e7.2.7 Vibrating cylinder barometer \u003c\/i\u003e129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3 Corrections to barometers 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e7.3.1 Sea level correction \u003c\/i\u003e130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e7.3.2 Wind speed corrections \u003c\/i\u003e131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Wind Speed and Direction 133\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1 Introduction 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2 Types of anemometer 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e8.2.1 Pressure plate anemometers \u003c\/i\u003e133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e8.2.2 Pressure tube anemometer \u003c\/i\u003e134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e8.2.3 Cup anemometers \u003c\/i\u003e134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e8.2.4 Propeller anemometer \u003c\/i\u003e136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e8.2.5 Hot sensor anemometer \u003c\/i\u003e137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e8.2.6 Sonic anemometer \u003c\/i\u003e139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3 Wind direction 141\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e8.3.1 Wind vanes \u003c\/i\u003e142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e8.3.2 Horizontal wind components \u003c\/i\u003e144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e8.3.3 Multi-component research anemometers \u003c\/i\u003e146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.4 Anemometer exposure 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e8.4.1 Anemometer deficiencies \u003c\/i\u003e146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.5 Wind speed from kite tether tension 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Radiation 151\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1 Introduction 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2 Solar geometry 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e9.2.1 Orbital variations \u003c\/i\u003e154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e9.2.2 Diurnal variation \u003c\/i\u003e155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e9.2.3 Solar time corrections \u003c\/i\u003e155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e9.2.4 Day length calculation \u003c\/i\u003e156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e9.2.5 Irradiance calculation \u003c\/i\u003e157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3 Shortwave radiation instruments 158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e9.3.1 Thermopile pyranometer \u003c\/i\u003e158\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e9.3.2 Pyranometer theory \u003c\/i\u003e159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e9.3.3 Silicon pyranometers \u003c\/i\u003e162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4 Pyrheliometers 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.5 Diffuse solar radiation measurement 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e9.5.1 Occulting disk method \u003c\/i\u003e164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e9.5.2 Shade ring method \u003c\/i\u003e165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e9.5.3 Reflected shortwave radiation \u003c\/i\u003e168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e9.5.4 Fluctuations in measured radiation \u003c\/i\u003e169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.6 Reference solar radiation instruments 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e9.6.1 Cavity radiometer \u003c\/i\u003e172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e9.6.2 Secondary pyrheliometers \u003c\/i\u003e172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.7 Longwave instruments 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e9.7.1 Pyrradiometer theory \u003c\/i\u003e173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e9.7.2 Pyrradiometer calibration \u003c\/i\u003e174\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e9.7.3 Pyrgeometer measurements \u003c\/i\u003e175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e9.7.4 Commercial pyrradiometers \u003c\/i\u003e175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e9.7.5 Radiation thermometry \u003c\/i\u003e177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.8 Sunshine duration 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e9.8.1 Campbell–Stokes sunshine recorder \u003c\/i\u003e180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e9.8.2 Electronic sensors \u003c\/i\u003e181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Clouds, Precipitation and Atmospheric Electricity 183\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.1 Introduction 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.2 Visual range 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e10.2.1 Point visibility meters \u003c\/i\u003e184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e10.2.2 Transmissometers \u003c\/i\u003e185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e10.2.3 Present weather sensors \u003c\/i\u003e185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.3 Cloud base measurements 186\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4 Rain gauges 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e10.4.1 Tilting siphon \u003c\/i\u003e188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e10.4.2 Tipping bucket \u003c\/i\u003e188\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e10.4.3 Disdrometers \u003c\/i\u003e191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.5 Atmospheric electricity 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e10.5.1 Potential Gradient instrumentation \u003c\/i\u003e191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e10.5.2 Variability in the Potential Gradient \u003c\/i\u003e192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e10.5.3 Lightning detection \u003c\/i\u003e193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 Upper Air Instruments 195\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.1 Radiosondes 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e11.1.1 Sounding balloons \u003c\/i\u003e196\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.2 Radiosonde technology 197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e11.2.1 Pressure sensor \u003c\/i\u003e199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e11.2.2 Temperature and humidity sensors \u003c\/i\u003e200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e11.2.3 Wind measurements from position information \u003c\/i\u003e201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e11.2.4 Data telemetry \u003c\/i\u003e202\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e11.2.5 Radio transmitter \u003c\/i\u003e203\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.3 Uncertainties in radiosonde measurements 204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e11.3.1 Response time \u003c\/i\u003e204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e11.3.2 Radiation errors \u003c\/i\u003e204\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e11.3.3 Wet-bulbing \u003c\/i\u003e206\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e11.3.4 Location error \u003c\/i\u003e207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e11.3.5 Telemetry errors \u003c\/i\u003e208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.4 Specialist radiosondes 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e11.4.1 Cloud electrification \u003c\/i\u003e209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e11.4.2 Ozone \u003c\/i\u003e209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e11.4.3 Radioactivity and cosmic rays \u003c\/i\u003e210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e11.4.4 Radiation \u003c\/i\u003e210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e11.4.5 Turbulence \u003c\/i\u003e211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e11.4.6 Supercooled liquid water \u003c\/i\u003e211\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e11.4.7 Atmospheric aerosol \u003c\/i\u003e212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.5 Aircraft measurements 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e11.5.1 Air temperature \u003c\/i\u003e212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e11.5.2 Wind \u003c\/i\u003e212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e11.5.3 Pressure \u003c\/i\u003e213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e11.5.4 Altitude \u003c\/i\u003e213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.6 Small robotic aircraft 213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 Further Methods for Environmental Data Analysis 215\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.1 Physical models 215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e12.1.1 Surface energy balance \u003c\/i\u003e215\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e12.1.2 Turbulent quantities and eddy covariance \u003c\/i\u003e217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e12.1.3 Soil temperature model \u003c\/i\u003e218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e12.1.4 Vertical wind profile \u003c\/i\u003e220\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.2 Solar radiation models 222\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e12.2.1 Langley’s solar radiation method \u003c\/i\u003e222\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e12.2.2 Surface solar radiation: Holland’s model \u003c\/i\u003e224\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.3 Statistical models 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e12.3.1 Histograms and distributions \u003c\/i\u003e226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e12.3.2 Statistical tests \u003c\/i\u003e226\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e12.3.3 Wind gusts \u003c\/i\u003e229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.4 Ensemble averaging 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e12.4.1 Solar radiation variation \u003c\/i\u003e230\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e12.4.2 Pressure tides \u003c\/i\u003e231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e12.4.3 Carnegie curve \u003c\/i\u003e231\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.5 Spectral methods 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e12.5.1 Power spectra \u003c\/i\u003e233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e12.5.2 Micrometeorological power spectra \u003c\/i\u003e235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.6 Conclusion 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAppendix A Writing a Brief Instrumentation Paper 239\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.1 Scope of an instrument paper 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.2 Structure of an instrument paper 239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA.2.1 Paper title \u003c\/i\u003e239\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA.2.2 Abstract \u003c\/i\u003e240\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA.2.3 Keywords \u003c\/i\u003e240\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA.2.4 Motivation \u003c\/i\u003e240\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA.2.5 Description \u003c\/i\u003e240\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA.2.6 Comparison \u003c\/i\u003e241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA.2.7 Figures \u003c\/i\u003e241\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA.2.8 Summary \u003c\/i\u003e242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA.2.9 Acknowledgements \u003c\/i\u003e242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.3 Submission and revisions 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Well, with this book, you can!TV forecasts, online predictions and smartphone apps are all based on the same data  a number-crunched overview of how air pressure and temperature affects the weather over a large geographical area. But to get an idea of how the weather will develop for the precise spot where you're standing (or walking, sailing, golfing, fishing, etc) you don't need any equipment or a wifi connection  you just need to look up.   This book will give you a great understanding of why clouds are symptoms of weather patterns, not causes. Highly practical, it shows you how by reading these signs in the sky and referring to the explanatory colour photos and diagrams, you will be able to tell exactly what those signs mean.   After its very well received first edition, this second edition is revised and expanded, including plenty of new photos to cover every possible view o\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWell researched - practical information in an easy to assimilate form * Professor Richard Collier, former President of the Royal Meteorological Society *\u003cbr\u003eSo good that my Yachtmaster candidates would do well to read it. I learned something from this book. I bet you do too * Tom Cunliffe, author of The Complete Day Skipper and The Complete Yachtmaster *\u003cbr\u003eAbsolutely brilliant; a must for anyone who does anything outside and for whom the weather might be important. Everyone, wherever they are in the world, will get something from this book * Duncan Wells, author of Stress-Free Sailing *\u003cbr\u003eIf you've ever wanted to forecast the weather by analysing clouds, you'll love this book. * People's Friend *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword by Tom Cunliffe Foreword by Duncan Wells 1. Getting to know the basics 2. Reading the high clouds 3. Reading the middle clouds 4. Reading the low clouds 5. Clouds with vertical growth 6. Weather forecasting rules 7. Local conditions 8. Weather lore 9. Quiz - what did you learn? 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