First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
From clear explanations of basic physical and chemical principles of the atmosphere to descriptions of regional climates and their changes, this popular text presents a comprehensive coverage of global climatology.
Atmosphere, Weather, and Climate: An Introduction to Meteorology
Atmosphere, Weather and Climate
Originally published in 1986 as Basic meteorology: a physical outline.
Atmosphere Weather and Climate
Presents a history of atmospheric studies, discussing such topics as the study of air, water, and gases throughout the ages, the classification of climates, the development of weather maps and forecasting, and the discovery and theory of ...
Ages 8 to 10 years. The Environment Series deals with various subjects. Reading the encyclopedias will make young readers more responsible towards the planet Earth.
The text is organized around the premise that weather and climate are two interrelated and equally important influences upon environmental processes and human activity.
The text places special emphasis on relationships between fundamental variables, such as temperature, pressure, winds, and moisture, and how these variables underlie atmospheric phenomena.
The volume develops the concept of “geographical imagination” to address the intersecting forces of scientific knowledge, cultural politics, bodily experience, and spatial imaginaries, which shape the history of knowledges about climate ...