The Little Book of Weather (eBook)

Adam Scaife (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2024
160 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-26016-7 (ISBN)

Infos

A charming, richly illustrated, pocket-size exploration of the world's weatherPacked with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile anyone who is curious about weather. Expertly written and beautifully illustrated throughout with color photographs and original color artwork, The Little Book of Weather is an accessible and enjoyable mini-reference about the world's weather, with examples drawn from across the globe. It fits an astonishing amount of information in a small package, covering a wide range of topicsfrom weather forecasting and extreme events such as hurricanes and typhoons to the future of weather with climate change. It also includes curious facts, myths, and historyfrom whether animals can predict the weather to the bad weather that helped doom Napoleon and Hitler's invasions of Russia and the Soviet Union. The result is an irresistible guide to the amazing world of weather.A beautifully designed pocket-size book with a foil-stamped cloth coverFeatures some 140 color illustrations and photosMakes a perfect gift

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.10.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Little Books of Nature
• Zusatzinfo: 140 color illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Weltraum / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
• Schlagworte: Air • Atlantic • Atmosphere • Atmospheric • carbon • Century • Climate • climate change • clouds • cold • Current • cycles • decades • degrees • Dioxide • dramatic • Drought • earth • El • El Niño • Energy • Equator • force • Forecasts • gases • greenhouse • Greenhouse Gases • Heat • hemisphere • ICE • intense • Jet • LA • Land • La Niña • levels • Models • Molecules • niña • Niño • observations • ocean • oxygen • PREDICT • Pressure • rainfall • records • Regions • Rotation • scale • Sea • space • storms • Stratosphere • Stream • Sun • Surface • Temperature • thousands • Tropical • tropics • troposphere • Vapor • Variations • warm • Water • Weather • weather forecasts • weather systems • winds
• ISBN-10: 0-691-26016-8 / 0691260168
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-26016-7 / 9780691260167