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Met Office Cloud Book - Updated Edition : How to Understand the Skies by Richard Hamblyn (2021, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDavid & Charles Publishers

ISBN-101446308901

ISBN-139781446308905

eBay Product ID (ePID)28050384881

Product Key Features

Book TitleMet Office Cloud Book-Updated Edition : How to Understand the Skies

Number of Pages176 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2021

TopicWeather, Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, Physics / General

IllustratorYes

GenreNature, Science

AuthorRichard Hamblyn

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight18.9 Oz

Item Length6.6 in

Item Width10.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal551.576

Table Of ContentForeword from the Met OfficeIntroduction: Clouds and their Classification How to use this BookPart 1: The Principal Clouds Low Clouds Medium Clouds High CloudsPart 2: Other Clouds and Effects Accessory Clouds Supplementary Features Special Clouds Man-made Clouds Optical Phenomena and EffectsAfterword: Clouds and Climate ChangeGlossaryFurther ReadingIndex

SynopsisAn updated edition of The Cloud Book, featuring 12 new recognised cloud forms. This guide to the clouds helps you identify cloud types and understand their implications for the weather. It follows a logical progression from low clouds to high stratus clouds, and on to special clouds, with a foreword from the Met Office's chief meteorologist., Learn how to understand the skies with this comprehensive cornerstone guide to cloudspotting. Clouds have been the object of fascination throughout history, their fleeting magnificence and endless variability providing food for thought for scientists and daydreamers alike. Clouds may have many individual shapes, but there are a few basic forms. In this definitive guide to the clouds and the skies, Richard Hamblyn introduces you to all the different cloud species. The Met Office Cloud Book will enable you to identify individual clouds, skies and phenomena. You will also be able to track their likely changes over time and predict the implications they have for the weather you may experience. Produced in association with the Met Office - the world's premier weather forecasting bureau - all things to do with the origin and development of a cloud are here. Whether you are looking at a giant cumulonimbus or a tiny shred of stratus factus, an everyday occurrence or a fleeting rarity, your cloudspotting will be expertly informed and much more satisfying with this handy reference guide. This book will enable you to not only identify individual clouds and skies as they might appear at any given moment, but also to track their likely changes over time, and thus predict weather patterns. This new edition brings this classic and bestselling book completely up to date, including 12 new cloud types only recently officially recognised by the World Meteorological Organization. Many of these previously only had informal names, but their new Latin classification brings them into the fold of officially adopted global meteorological terms. It also includes a new foreword from the Met Office's Chief Meteorologist and an updated section on climate change and the role that clouds might play in shaping future conditions on Earth. The Met Office Cloud Book includes a detailed introduction on the history of cloud classification and is illustrated with stunning images from around the globe. Take it with you on walks and have it handy in the garden so that you can enjoy sky-gazing every day. This is the only guide to cloud classification that you will ever need.

LC Classification NumberQC921