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Price: $29.99
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Sale: $2.83
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Manufacturer: Wiley
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tim Bitson
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Publisher: Wiley
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.5028
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Publication Date: 2006-10-16
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Reading Level: 504
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Description: Do more than TALK about the weather
Maybe you can't change it, but you can measure it. And onceyou build your weather station, the sky's the limit. You can shareupdates on your own weather Web site. Create a smart sprinklerfor a lot less than thatfancy system on TV. Freeup your PC with a stand-alone weather station.Protect against lightning strikes with a surgesuppressor. Take yourweather station with you. Finding out which waythe wind is blowing canbe a lot of fun.
The Toys
* 1-Wire weather station
* Sensors for humidity, wind, rainfall, barometric pressure, lightning, and temperature
* Weather Web server
* Lightning surge suppressor
* LED weather display
* Smart sprinkler timer
* Appliance controller
* Smart home thermostat
* Stand-alone weather station
Complete instructions and code for these andother hardware and software projects--build them all or pick and choose!
Companion Web site
At www.weathertoys.net you'll find a complete weather station software package, source code, and specialized software tools to support these projects, plus lots of additional resources.
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $19.43
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Manufacturer: Weather Graphics Technologies
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tim Vasquez
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Publisher: Weather Graphics Technologies
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551
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Publication Date: 2003-09
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Reading Level: 170
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Description: The science of forecasting has not changed, but the Internet and new marvels of technology have completely redefined the process. It is not a rare thing for weather hobbyists and National Weather Service forecasters to get a product from the very same site. With more and more charts and tools appearing on the Internet by the week, how do you make sense of the avalanche of weather imagery and data? Using a double-page format, the Weather Map Handbook demonstrates nearly every type of weather map, image, and product in common use. An overview of each item’s origin, purpose, shortfalls, and tips are outlined. Standards for analysis symbology and chart markings are summarized. The surface, 850 mb, 700 mb, 500 mb, and 300-200 mb charts get two pages each, complete with philosophy, objectives, and techniques for each chart. Thickness, isentropic, and Q vector products get their own sections. The WSR-88D Doppler Radar, in use by the United States weather services, has played a vast part in the weather information revolution. In the Weather Map Handbook, it gets thirty pages packed with the fundamentals and algorithms of the WSR-88D. Much of this information is obscure and nearly impossible to find. From the workings of the Composite Reflectivity product to the exact process used by the Mesocyclone Detection Algorithm to deconstruct a radar scan, any NEXRAD radar product on the Internet can be understood. There is even a range-height nomogram for each volume coverage pattern. From the Eta to the MM5, from the GFS to the GEM, each numerical forecast model is revealed in incredible detail. Ensemble forecasts are highlighted. The satellite chapter explains visible, infrared, and water vapor imagery, how it is created, and how to interpret it. Even the METAR, TAF, SYNOP, and radiosonde formats get their own sections, complete with decoding instructions. Topping off the book is an appendix with surface and upper-level station plot models, a vast technical glossary compiled from the depths of the NWS, SPC, and NCEP, and much more! Whether you are a hobbyist, private forecaster, a professional, or a student, the Weather Map Handbook is the book you can’t be without.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $8.17
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Manufacturer: Dover Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Craig F. Bohren
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Publisher: Dover Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.51
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Publication Date: 2001-07-10
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Reading Level: 216
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Description: Memorable and thoroughly understandable science lessons, liberally sprinkled with humor, will fascinate beginning physics students as well as general readers in such fascinating chapters as “On a Clear Day You Can’t See Forever,” “Physics on a Manure Heap,” “A Murder in Ceylon,” and “Multiple Scattering at the Breakfast Table. “[The book] rings with a unifying tone: the science of the everyday physical world is fun. And so is this book.”—Jearl Walker, Physics Department, Cleveland State University.
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Price: $8.95
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Sale: $4.94
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Manufacturer: Sheridan House
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Alan Watts
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Publisher: Sheridan House
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.63
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Publication Date: 2001-09-01
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Reading Level: 64
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Description: This completely redesigned new edition is a colorful photographic guide to predicting the weather in the hours ahead. The photographs are arranged in such a way as to illustrate the sky under a variety of weather situations, and a simple scientific introduction explains how to use the photos.
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Price: $3.99
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Sale: $0.01
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Manufacturer: Aladdin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Marion Dane Bauer
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Publisher: Aladdin
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.577
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Publication Date: 2004-02-24
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Reading Level: 32
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Reading Level: Ages 4-8
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Description: Drip, drop, plop, rain falls from the sky. Rain turns dirt into mud and makes puddles on sidewalks. It also helps flowers grow. But where does rain come from? The answer is at your fingertips. Just open this book and read about the wonders of rain.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $12.88
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Manufacturer: Macmillan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Chris Turney
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Publisher: Macmillan
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.6
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Publication Date: 2008-05-27
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Imagine a world of wildly escalating temperatures, apocalyptic flooding, devastating storms and catastrophic sea levels. This might sound like a prediction for the future or the storyline of a new Hollywood blockbuster but it’s actually what occurred on earth in the past. In a day and age when worrying forecasts for future climate change are the norm, it seems hard to believe that such things happened regularly over time. Can humankind decipher the past and learn from it? As science gains new understanding of how the planet works, it’s becoming increasingly clear that no one place is disconnected from anywhere else. From the Alps to the Andes, seemingly unrelated parts of the world are connected in one way or another. By reading this book you’ll realize that we're facing challenges beyond anything our species has had to contend with before. |
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Price: $22.00
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Sale: $4.97
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John A. Day::Vincent J. Schaefer
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.5
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Publication Date: 1998-11-01
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: More than 400 photographs and line drawings illustrate every kind of atmospheric phenomenon: clouds of every type; storms, from cloudbursts to hurricanes; and sky colors.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $16.59
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Manufacturer: Hodder & Stoughton
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Antony Woodward::Robert Penn
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Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.6941
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Publication Date: 2007-10-01
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: It's the great British obsession and not surprisingly: no other country in the world has such unpredictable weather, with such power to rule people's lives as we have. The Wrong Kind of Snow" is the complete daily companion to this British phenomenon. From the Spanish Armada to the invention of the windscreen wiper, each of the 365 entries beautifully illustrates a day in the weird and wonderful history of the British and their weather. 31 January: The 'Big Freeze' of 1963brings the FA Cup competition to a halt: every football pitch in Britain is frozen: the third round takes 66 days to complete: the Pools Panel is formed as a result. 9 February: 'British Rail blames the Wrong Kind of Snow' -- it was a journalist's phrase, but on this day in 1991 it stuck to the beleaguered BR like flesh to ice. 15 July: The exceptionally hot and steamy summer of 1858 caused the Great Stink of London, resulting in the building of London's sewage system, still in use today. On the same day in 1930, rainfall in Yorkshire is so heavy that the Whitby lifeboat makes a rescue two miles inland. 10 September: A violent storm -- rather than British sea power -- defeats the Spanish Armada in1588.Four centuries later, bad light and rain stop play at the Oval . ..And much more.
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Price: $16.50
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Sale: $6.56
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Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Brian Fagan
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Publisher: Basic Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.3492
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Publication Date: 2000-02-10
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Reading Level: 304
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Description: Before 1997, the name "El Niño" was unknown to most ordinary folks. Meteorologists, oceanographers, commercial fishers, and weather buffs knew of this periodic climatic anomaly, but to the everyday person on the street, a few degrees' difference in the Pacific Ocean's temperature was irrelevant. Then one of the most powerful El Niños in recorded history caused bitter freezes in Europe, brutal snowstorms and floods in western North America, and deadly droughts throughout the South Pacific. People sat up and took notice as a relatively tiny change in oceanic temperature resulted in death and destruction in many parts of the globe. Brian Fagan examines the social effects of El Niño and other powerful weather phenomena in Floods, Famines and Emperors. He gives plenty of examples of how cultures have adapted to stressful weather and the ways in which climatic alterations have changed the course of history. From droughts in ancient Egypt to monsoons in India, the far-reaching effects of meteorology's most cantankerous kid have deeply affected the way humans live in the world. Illustrated with useful maps and diagrams, Floods, Famines and Emperors is a clear, fascinating look at an aspect of climate studies--and of El Niño--mostly ignored by science. --Therese Littleton
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $11.99
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Manufacturer: Scholastic
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Scholastic
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.5
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Publication Date: 1991-10
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Reading Level: Ages 4-8
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Description: Explores the various aspects of the weather and the changing seasons on spiral-bound transparent pages.
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Displaying records 111 through 120 of 4000
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