Storm Dunlop (Freelance Writer)

Weather

A Very Short Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The weather affects everyone on Earth, influencing both our day-to-day decisions and long term plans for leisure and work. But the Earth's weather systems are extremely complex, and conditions and events may have an effect 'half a world away'. Storm Dunlop explores the processes at work behind our daily weather.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 175mm x 111mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 150g
• ISBN-13: 9780199571314
• ISBN-10: 0199571317
• Artikelnr.: 45765688

Autorenporträt

Storm Dunlop is an experienced freelance writer in the field of meteorology, and has been published by Springer, OUP, CUP, and others. He compiled the Oxford Dictionary of Weather (OUP, 2008), which is now in its second edition, and among his many other published works are A Guide to Weather Forecasting (Philips, 2013). He has also lectured widely on the subject.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: The atmosphere
3: The circulation of the atmosphere
4: Global weather systems
5: Water in the atmosphere
6: Weather systems
7: Severe and unusual weather events
8: Localized weather
9: Weather forecasting
References
Further Reading
Index