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The Facts On File Weather and Climate Handbook
  • Authored by: Michael Allaby
  • From the Series: Science Handbook
  • Trim Size: 7-3/8 x 9-1/4
  • ISBN-10: 0816045178
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-8160-4517-4
  • Status: In Stock
  • List Price: $40.00
  • Imprint: Facts On File
  • Published: 06/01/2002
  • Dewey Number: 551.6
  • Reading Level: Grades 6-12
  • Pages: 304

Summary

Topics covered include:

  • Area Forecast
  • Bioclimatology
  • Dust Bowl
  • Greenhouse Gas
  • La Niña
  • Severe-storm Observation
  • Veil of Cloud.
Biographies include:
  • Svante Arrhenius
  • Christoph Buys Ballot
  • Francis Beaufort
  • Anders Celsius
  • Vagn Ekman
  • Jean-Baptiste Fourier
  • George Hadley
  • Daniel Rutherford
  • Alfred Wegener.
Table, charts, and diagrams include:
  • Albedo
  • Cloud Classification
  • Cyclone Names
  • Distribution of Fresh Water
  • Mean Snow Line
  • Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere
  • Saffir/Simpson Hurricane Scale
  • SI Units and Conversions
  • UV Index.

Specifications

100 black-and-white line illustrations. Index. Appendixes. Bibliography. Cross-references. Chronology. Tables and charts.

About the Author(s)

Michael Allaby is the author of Facts On File's highly successful "Dangerous Weather" series, Temperate Forests, Deserts, and the Fall 2001 two-volume Encyclopedia of Weather and Climate.

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