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Meteorology Understanding the Atmosphere

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ISBN-10: 049511216X

ISBN-13: 9780495112167

Edition: 2nd 2007

Authors: Steven Ackerman, John A. Knox

List price: $265.95
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An entirely new way for students to observe, analyze, and understand meteorology, - Steven A. Ackerman and John A. Knox's METEOROLOGY: UNDERSTANDING THE ATMOSPHERE is scientific, topical, and scholarly. The authors use vivid photographs and compelling real-life stories to present the subject of weather as it directly affects your students. METEOROLOGY generates genuine enthusiasm for the subject by using conceptual models and engaging narrative to truly make weather phenomena come alive. METEOROLOGY emphasizes how we observe the atmosphere and then uses those observations to explain atmospheric phenomena. New "Observational Questions" further extend this emphasis by asking students to…    
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Book details

List price: $265.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Brooks/Cole
Publication date: 3/8/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 8.50" wide x 10.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.640
Language: English

John Knox is currently Assistant Research Scientist and Lecturer in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at the University of Georgia. In addition to his teaching experience at the University of Georgia, Knox has also taught meteorology at Valparaiso University and Barnard College of Columbia University. A National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow in meteorology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Rhodes Scholar finalist, he received a B.S. summa cum laude in mathematics in 1988 from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a Ph.D. in atmospheric science in 1996 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was a post-doctoral fellow in climate…    

Introduction to the Atmosphere
The Energy Cycle
Temperature
Water in the Atmosphere
Observing the Atmosphere
Atmospheric Forces and Wind
Global-Scale Winds
Atmosphere?
Ocean Interactions: El Ni1o and Tropical Cyclones
Air Masses and Fronts
Extratropical Cyclones And Anticyclones
Thunderstorms and Tornadoes
Small-Scale Winds
Weather Forecasting
Past and Present Climates
Human Influences on Climate