Clouds
How to Identify Nature’s Most Fleeting Forms
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2025
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-26248-2 (ISBN)
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-26248-2 (ISBN)
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A one-of-a-kind illustrated identification guide to clouds and cloud formations
The mystery of clouds has captivated scientists and artists alike. This unique book shows you how to use the meteorological techniques of nephology to identify these elusive and transmutable shapes. It curates, classifies, and measures every species—including those recently discovered—considering the height, size, texture, arrangement, modifications, and movement of their many shifting forms. Clouds blends a lively and engaging narrative by one of today’s leading meteorologists with an essay on historic cloud art, and includes a wealth of breathtaking cloud studies by some of the greatest artists ever to look skyward.
Presents a “taxonomic” approach to identification, applying the basic laws of geometry to quantify and measure clouds and cloud formations
Showcases artists who painted clouds from a scientific viewpoint, such as John Constable, Eugène Boudin, J.M.W. Turner, and Caspar David Friedrich
Tells the stories of the physicists and painters who have attempted to record the many different incarnations of clouds
Explains the physics of clouds, from the basic constituents of Earth’s atmosphere to cloud formation and dissipation, the colors and shades of clouds, the development of precipitation, and the timescale evolution of clouds
Discusses the classification and naming of clouds
Serves as a user-friendly reference guide to low, midlevel, and high cloud species
Includes charts, infographics, and a glossary of terms
The mystery of clouds has captivated scientists and artists alike. This unique book shows you how to use the meteorological techniques of nephology to identify these elusive and transmutable shapes. It curates, classifies, and measures every species—including those recently discovered—considering the height, size, texture, arrangement, modifications, and movement of their many shifting forms. Clouds blends a lively and engaging narrative by one of today’s leading meteorologists with an essay on historic cloud art, and includes a wealth of breathtaking cloud studies by some of the greatest artists ever to look skyward.
Presents a “taxonomic” approach to identification, applying the basic laws of geometry to quantify and measure clouds and cloud formations
Showcases artists who painted clouds from a scientific viewpoint, such as John Constable, Eugène Boudin, J.M.W. Turner, and Caspar David Friedrich
Tells the stories of the physicists and painters who have attempted to record the many different incarnations of clouds
Explains the physics of clouds, from the basic constituents of Earth’s atmosphere to cloud formation and dissipation, the colors and shades of clouds, the development of precipitation, and the timescale evolution of clouds
Discusses the classification and naming of clouds
Serves as a user-friendly reference guide to low, midlevel, and high cloud species
Includes charts, infographics, and a glossary of terms
Edward Graham is an atmospheric scientist and former Editor-in-Chief of Weather, the flagship journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. A former operational weather forecaster, he is a lecturer and researcher at the University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 18.3.2025 |
|---|---|
| Vorwort | Richard Hamblyn |
| Zusatzinfo | 140 color illus. |
| Verlagsort | New Jersey |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 267 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie |
| Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-691-26248-9 / 0691262489 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-26248-2 / 9780691262482 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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