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Mountain Meteorology: Fundamentals and Applications

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I am a professional Certified Consulting Meteorologist and I found this book exceptionally well written and informative. It covers a number of subtopics of interest to people who live, work or play in mountainous regions and who are interested in better understanding the unique meteorological phenomena observed in these areas. It is non mathematical but very descriptive and well illustrated with diagrams and photographs.

This book is really much more than simply a discussion of mountain weather. This book introduces the layperson and professional alike to the complex interaction between terrain and the atmosphere, both on the global and regional scale. In a clean well written manner, with lots of informative graphics, Whiteman goes beyond many of the simplistic coffeetable books, but never leaves understanding and clarity behind.

This book goes a long way to introduce the public to a New Meteorology - one in which airflow is understood not to behave like water, but a new realization that even a simple breeze around a hill can exhibit complex eddys, counterflows, and dynamic reactions to the surface.

This work demonstrates the value of a Meteorology that combines a new geophysical understanding with real world applications in firefighting, pest control, environmental preservation, land management, and I dare say, field geology.

This book is well written. It is a useful reference for those who forecast for mountainous locations. The book is organized in small, discrete sections without lots of unneeded derivations. Lots of useful graphics and illustrations make this one of the most used books on my shelf. It is also quite useful for teaching others how weather is modified by terrain.

This is no doubt a great book, but the printing quality is really really poor. The copy at the library is much better, i suspect that this is not printed by the original publisher. The color illustrations looks poor quality, letters sometimes broken. One page is even printed upside-down!