(eBook PDF) Weather and Climate: An Introduction 2nd Edition – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download
product details:
- ISBN-10 : 019902135X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0199021352
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Now in a fully revised second edition, Weather and Climate provides an interdisciplinary, systems-based approach to the scientific processes and theories behind weather and climate in Canada and around the globe. Loaded with stimulating questions and activities that encourage independent thinking, this rigorous yet accessible introduction will inspire students to engage with key issues, ask questions, and conduct their own meteorological and climatological investigations.
table of contents:
1. Introduction
2. Observations
3. The constitution of the atmosphere
4. The state of the atmosphere
5. Atmospheric thermodynamics
6. Cloud and precipitation
7. The dynamics of the atmosphere
8. Radiation convection and advection
9. The atmospheric engine
10. Surface and boundary layer
11. Smaller-scale weather systems
12. Large-scale weather systems in mid latitudes
13. Large-scale weather systems in low latitudes
14. Climate and climate change