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Price: $118.20
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Sale: $53.00
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Frederick K. Lutgens::Edward J. Tarbuck::Dennis Tasa
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Edition: 10
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.5
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Publication Date: 2006-04-06
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Reading Level: 544
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Description: Using everyday, easy-to-grasp examples to reinforce basic concepts, this highly regarded handbook remains the standard introduction to meteorology and the atmosphere – components, problems, and applications. Includes the most up-to-date coverage of topics such as: ozone depletion; the ultraviolet index; temperature; dew point temperature and orographic effects; wildfires and weather; thunderstorms and lightning; the record-breaking Florida hurricane season; effects of air pollution, and more. Incorporates top-quality visuals, including new satellite images and illustrations by the award-winning Dennis Tasa, to demonstrate the highly visual nature of meteorology. Uses a largely non-technical writing style to help readers grasp important concepts. For those interested in learning more about meteorology.
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Price: $114.00
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Sale: $59.98
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Edward Aguado::James Burt
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Edition: 4
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.5
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Publication Date: 2006-05-13
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Reading Level: 588
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Description: The fourth edition of Understanding Weather and Climate has been thoroughly updated throughout. Every part of the text has been examined and updated to ensure currency and clarity.Integrating the classic textbook model with emerging areas of instructional technology, this book focuses on explaining, rather than describing, the processes that produce Earth's weather and climate. The authors encourage a non-mathematical understanding of physical principles as a vehicle for learning about atmospheric processes.
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Price: $58.60
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Sale: $52.28
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Spiral-bound
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Author: Greg Carbone
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Edition: 6
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551
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Publication Date: 2006-03-20
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Severe weather and climate changes are explored in this manual with accompanying CD-ROM. Eighteen exercises review important ideas and concepts of weather and climate through problem solving, simulations, and guided thinking. Features an upgraded graphics program and seven computer-based simulations and tutorials. Presents interactive computer modules as JAVA applets. Revises the accompanying CD to increase the compatibility of the software with updated browsers and computers. Adds exercises on climate change and its causes. Adds new labs on Earth-Sun Geometry, Atmospheric Motion, and Hurricanes. Offers a two-column format with perforated pages.
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Price: $100.05
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Sale: $19.95
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Frederick K. Lutgens::Edward J. Tarbuck::Dennis Tasa
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Edition: 9
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551
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Publication Date: 2003-06-23
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Reading Level: 528
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Description: This reader-friendly book offers current and comprehensive information about the atmosphere—its components, problems, and applications. It features everyday examples to help the reader understand weather and climate, with incredible photographs, satellite images, and line art. Broad in scope and clearly and concisely written, this book features such topics as temperature, moisture and atmospheric stability, condensation and precipitation, air pressure and winds, circulation, air masses, weather patterns, thunderstorms and tornadoes, hurricanes, air pollution, world climates, and optical phenomena. For readers interested in a book that discusses up-to-date weather and climate issues that affect the world's people everyday; can also be utilized as a reference text for those in the field of meteorology and other earth sciences.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $20.00
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Manufacturer: National Academies Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Committee on Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services::Committee on Geophysical and Environmental Data::National Research Council
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Publisher: National Academies Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551
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Publication Date: 2003-05-16
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Reading Level: 238
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Description: Decades of evolving U.S. policy have led to three sectors providing weather services - NOAA (primarily the National Weather Service [NWS]), academic institutions, and private companies. This three-sector system has produced a scope and diversity of weather services in the United States second to none. However, rapid scientific and technological change is changing the capabilities of the sectors and creating occasional friction. "Fair Weather: Effective Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services" examines the roles of the three sectors in providing weather and climate services, the barriers to interaction among the sectors, and the impact of scientific and technological advances on the weather enterprise. Readers from all three sectors will be interested in the analysis and recommendations provided in "Fair Weather".
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Price: $56.00
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Sale: $52.14
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Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Clive D. Rodgers
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Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551
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Publication Date: 2000-09
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Remote sounding of the atmosphere has proved to be a fruitful method of obtaining global information about the atmospheres of the earth and other planets. This book treats comprehensively the inverse problem of remote sounding, and discusses a wide range of retrieval methods for extracting atmospheric parameters of interest from the quantities (thermal emission, for example) that can be measured remotely. Inverse theory is treated in depth from an estimation-theory point of view, but practical questions are also emphasized, such as designing observing systems to obtain the maximum quantity of information, efficient numerical implementation of algorithms for processing large quantities of data, error analysis and approaches to the validation of the resulting retrievals. The book is targeted at graduate students as well as scientists.
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Price: $95.00
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Sale: $2.64
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: William B. Meyer
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 304.250973
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Publication Date: 2000-07-06
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: This revealing book synthesizes research from many fields to offer the first complete history of the roles played by weather and climate in American life from colonial times to the present. Author William B. Meyer characterizes weather events as neutral phenomena that are inherently neither hazards nor resources, but can become either depending on the activities with which they interact. Meyer documents the ways in which different kinds of weather throughout history have represented hazards and resources not only for such exposed outdoor pursuits as agriculture, warfare, transportation, construction, and recreation, but for other realms of life ranging from manufacturing to migration to human health. He points out that while the weather and climate by themselves have never determined the course of human events, their significance as been continuously altered for better and for worse by the evolution of American life.
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Price: $11.99
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Sale: $0.01
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Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Bryan Norcross
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Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.552
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Publication Date: 2006-07-11
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Bryan Norcross's pioneering and courageous TV coverage of Hurricane Andrew in 1992 helped thousands of people in Florida cope with the killer storm. With hurricanes back in the headlines and destined to stay there, one of America's leading experts offers a unique almanac compiling hundreds of nuggets of fascinating, useful, and potentially life-saving information. Bryan Norcross's Hurricane Almanac 2006 reviews the catastrophic season of 2005, including Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma, looks forward to hurricane seasons to come, highlights the fascinating history of hurricanes interacting with civilization, and details our rapidly increasingly ability -- but still with limitations -- to predict the severity and paths of storms. Key sections offer checklists of items needed to make homes, businesses, and people safe during storms, and where to find the best information before and during a storm and how to best interpret it. Bryan will also include a provocative chapter entitled: What I'd do better: ideas for a better hurricane system. |
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Price: $9.95
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Sale: $14.00
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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: Frank H. Forrester
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Publisher: Dover Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.5
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Publication Date: 1981-11-01
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: What causes the aurora? What are the trade winds? Over 1,000 questions with comprehensive answers cover all types of weather phenomena. Enlightening, entertaining and well-illustrated text for anyone curious about nature.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $0.01
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Manufacturer: Touchstone
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Patricia Barnes-Svarney::Thomas E Svarney
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Publisher: Touchstone
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Dewey Decimal Number: 551.5
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Publication Date: 1999-09-03
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Ever used a cricket as a thermometer? It's pretty easy, really: when it's 60 degrees F, crickets apparently chirp 72 times a minute. For every 4 chirps over that, add a degree; for every four under, subtract a degree. That's just one of the many bizarre facts that veteran science writer Patricia Barnes-Svarney and her naturalist husband Thomas Svarney managed to uncover, verify ("relatively speaking," in the case of the crickets), and report in their sweeping survey of the "power and weirdness" of weather. With more or less equal coverage of basic meteorological principles and the more showy, sensational side of weather, Skies of Fury serves as an entertaining and approachable primer on the subject for everybody from aspiring young scientists to Weather Channel-watching armchair meteorologists. Beginning with a straightforward discussion of earth's "weather engine"--the influence of the sun, the patterns of convection cells, the interaction of winds, the importance of the water cycle--Skies of Fury proceeds to dissect and catalog every major meteorological phenomenon, from the different types of clouds and lightning strikes to F5 tornadoes and billion-dollar hurricanes. The authors pack a lot of facts into this relatively breezy (sorry) and readable book, leaving you well-armed to go out and scout the skies yourself. (And you'll even know precisely what those big red Hs and blue Ls mean on the Weather Channel.) --Paul Hughes
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