This book shows how it is possible to understand weather and climate by combining our ability to observe weather systems from the earth's surface with visualization from above--notably by means of satellite imagery. It aims to show that it is possible to analyze global weather systems through this visual technology rather than the traditional use of math and physics. After examining the interaction of atmospheric heat, moisture, and motion, and contrasting the "above" and "below" approaches techniques of observation, the authors survey the world's climatess with key weather features, highlighting the ways in which weather events may develop into atmospheric hazards.
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The use of satellite imagery to support the text is very good. Overall it is a very accessible text that I'm sure students will have no problem getting to grips with. -- C. Holt, University College Northampton 20040623 It adopts a slightly different approach to the subject, which I found refreshing. -- Sevenoaks Chronicle 20041216
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Julian Mayes and Karel Hughes are both Senior Lecturers in the Department of Life Sciences, University of Roehampton, UK.
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Weather is about energy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
surface synoptic chart, mature depression, convergence uplift, föhn effect, explosive cyclogenesis, upper westerlies, warm conveyor belt, meteorological equator, thermal infrared images, orographic uplift, dewpoint temperature, environmental lapse rate, upper trough, unstable air, cumulus congestus, advection fog, weather images, polar jet stream, depression centre, warm sector, radiation fog, rising thermals, cloud development, cloud head, synoptic charts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
British Isles, North Atlantic, North America, Indian Ocean, Cambridge University Press, North Sea, Azores High, Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean Basin, Meteorological Applications, Great Plains, Mediterranean Sea, North African, Southern Oscillation, Great Lakes, Month Figure, Rocky Mountains, Academic Press, Hurricane Andrew, Hurricane Isabel, Journal of Geophysical Research, Amazon Basin, Canary Islands, English Channel, Geophysical Research Letters New!
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Weather is about energy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
surface synoptic chart, mature depression, convergence uplift, föhn effect, explosive cyclogenesis, upper westerlies, warm conveyor belt, meteorological equator, thermal infrared images, orographic uplift, dewpoint temperature, environmental lapse rate, upper trough, unstable air, cumulus congestus, advection fog, weather images, polar jet stream, depression centre, warm sector, radiation fog, rising thermals, cloud development, cloud head, synoptic charts Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
British Isles, North Atlantic, North America, Indian Ocean, Cambridge University Press, North Sea, Azores High, Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean Basin, Meteorological Applications, Great Plains, Mediterranean Sea, North African, Southern Oscillation, Great Lakes, Month Figure, Rocky Mountains, Academic Press, Hurricane Andrew, Hurricane Isabel, Journal of Geophysical Research, Amazon Basin, Canary Islands, English Channel, Geophysical Research Letters New!
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- Climates of the British Isles: Present, Past and Future by Elaine Barrow on page 81
- Physical Geography by Cuchlaine A.M. King on page 159
- Remote Sensing: Symposium Proceedings by G. K. C. Pardoe on page 113
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