The Met Office Cloud Book - Updated Edition

How to Understand the Skies

Richard Hamblyn, The Met The Met Office (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2021
David & Charles (Verlag)
978-1-4463-0890-5 (ISBN)

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An updated edition of The Cloud Book, featuring 12 new recognised cloud forms. This guide to the clouds helps you identify cloud types and understand their implications for the weather. It follows a logical progression from low clouds to high stratus clouds, and on to special clouds, with a foreword from the Met Office's chief meteorologist.

Learn how to understand the skies with this comprehensive cornerstone guide to cloudspotting.

Clouds have been the object of fascination throughout history, their fleeting magnificence and endless variability providing food for thought for scientists and daydreamers alike.

Clouds may have many individual shapes, but there are a few basic forms. In this definitive guide to the clouds and the skies, Richard Hamblyn introduces you to all the different cloud species. The Met Office Cloud Book will enable you to identify individual clouds, skies and phenomena. You will also be able to track their likely changes over time and predict the implications they have for the weather you may experience.

Produced in association with the Met Office the worlds premier weather forecasting bureau all things to do with the origin and development of a cloud are here. Whether you are looking at a giant cumulonimbus or a tiny shred of stratus factus, an everyday occurrence or a fleeting rarity, your cloudspotting will be expertly informed and much more satisfying with this handy reference guide. This book will enable you to not only identify individual clouds and skies as they might appear at any given moment, but also to track their likely changes over time, and thus predict weather patterns.

This new edition brings this classic and bestselling book completely up to date, including 12 new cloud types only recently officially recognised by the World Meteorological Organization. Many of these previously only had informal names, but their new Latin classification brings them into the fold of officially adopted global meteorological terms. It also includes a new foreword from the Met Office's Chief Meteorologist and an updated section on climate change and the role that clouds might play in shaping future conditions on Earth.

The Met Office Cloud Book includes a detailed introduction on the history of cloud classification and is illustrated with stunning images from around the globe. Take it with you on walks and have it handy in the garden so that you can enjoy sky-gazing every day. This is the only guide to cloud classification that you will ever need.

Dr Richard Hamblyn is the author of The Invention of Clouds (2002),which won the LA Times Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. He is also the author ofThe Cloud Book (2008), Extraordinary Clouds (2009) and Extraordinary Weather (2012). He is currently Writer in Residence at the Environment Institute, University College London.

Foreword from the Met Office
Introduction: Clouds and their Classification
How to use this Book
Part 1: The Principal Clouds
Low Clouds
Medium Clouds
High Clouds
Part 2: Other Clouds and Effects
Accessory Clouds
Supplementary Features
Special Clouds
Man-made Clouds
Optical Phenomena and Effects
Afterword: Clouds and Climate Change
Glossary
Further Reading
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.10.2021
Zusatzinfo	155 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Newton Abbot
Sprache	englisch
Maße	260 x 168 mm
Gewicht	530 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
ISBN-10	1-4463-0890-1 / 1446308901
ISBN-13	978-1-4463-0890-5 / 9781446308905
Zustand	Neuware