Making Sense of Weather and Climate : The Science Behind the Forecasts /

How do meteorologists design forecasts for the next day's, the next week's, or the next month's weather? Are some forecasts more likely to be accurate than others, and why? Making Sense of Weather and Climate takes readers through key topics in atmospheric physics and presents a cogen...

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Hlavní autor: Denny, Mark (Autor)
Médium: E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, 2017
Témata:
Climatology.
Electronic books.
Weather forecasting.
Meteorologie.
Wetter.
NATURE / Weather.
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ISBN:9780231542869
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Obsah:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Author's Note
  • Acknowledgments
  • Forecast
  • 1. Feeling the Heat
  • 2. Under the Heavens and the Seas
  • 3. The Air We Breathe
  • 4. Dynamic Planet
  • 5. Oceans of Data
  • 6. Statistically Speaking
  • 7. A Condensed Account of Clouds, Rain, and Snow
  • 8. Weather Mechanisms
  • 9. Weather Extremes: The New Normal
  • 10. The World of Weather Forecasting
  • And That Wraps Up Your Weather for Today
  • Appendix
  • Glossary
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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