![Meteorology Today: An Introduction to Weather, Climate, and the Environment [with MeteorologyNOW & InfoTrac]](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1177185155l/685830._SX318_.jpg)
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Meteorology
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Living, as we do, at the bottom of an ocean of air, it is easy not to look up. To see only our immediate environment in two-dimensional terms. It is probably no accident that the first ones to question this view, to see something others missed, were a father and son who watched the weather go by from mountain peaks near the top of the world. Vilhelm and Jacob Bjerknes were Norwegian meteorologists who, during the First World War, organised a network of weather stations across their country. By r
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― Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Wind
― Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Wind
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The investigation described in the subsequent pages bears close relation to three sciences. It was approached by the author from the standpoint of astronomy and a desire to understand the variations of the sun. It was hoped that these variations could be more accurately studied by correlation with climatic phenomena. But the science of meteorology is still comparatively new and supplies us only with a few decades of records on which to base our conclusions. So botanical aid was sought in order t
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― Climatic cycles and tree-growth
― Climatic cycles and tree-growth
Good reads about weather, and broadcast and digital meteorology.
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