The Little Book of Weather
1st Edition
Published on 17. October 2024
160 pages
978-0-691-26016-7 (ISBN)
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Adam Scaife
The Little Book of Weather
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10/2024
Princeton University Press
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Adam Scaife leads research and production of long-range weather forecasts at the UK's Met Office and is a professor at the University of Exeter. The author of 30-Second Meteorology, he has received the Edward Appleton Medal from the Institute of Physics and the Royal Meteorological Society Buchan Prize for his pioneering work on the computer simulation and long-range prediction of the atmosphere. Tugce Okay is a natural history illustrator who works primarily with watercolors. Her work has appeared in many books and magazines.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Weather Basics
- The atmosphere is a fluid
- Pressure
- Temperature
- Troposphere
- Stratosphere
- Mesosphere
- 2. Winds
- Going around in circles
- Storm tracks
- It's all about which way the wind blows
- Hadley cells
- Sea breezes
- Katabatic and anabatic winds
- 3. Weather Phenomena
- Clouds
- Rain
- Rainbows
- Hail
- Snow
- Thunder and lightning
- 4. Extreme Weather
- Tornadoes
- Hurricanes and typhoons
- Extreme rainfall and floods
- Droughts
- Extreme rainfall and landslides
- What's possible?
- 5. Weather Patterns
- North Atlantic Oscillation
- El Niño and La Niña
- Madden-Julian Oscillation
- Sudden stratospheric warming
- Quasi-biennial Oscillation
- Pacific and Atlantic variability
- 6. Weather and Historical Events
- D-day landings
- Pests and plagues
- Napoleon and 1812
- History repeats itself
- 1877, El Niño
- The 1930s Dust Bowl
- 7. The Distant Past
- Ancient Earth
- The migrating Moon
- Milankovitch cycles
- Dansgaard-Oeschger and Bond events
- Ice ages
- The last millennium
- 8. Weather Forecasts
- Origins of forecasts
- L. F. Richardson
- Computer-based forecasts
- Chaos
- Long-range forecasts
- Artificial intelligence
- 9. Climate Change
- Not a new idea
- Greenhouse gases
- Global warming
- Future heatwaves
- Future rainfall
- Future tropical storms
- 10. Myths and Folklore
- Bathtubs and plugholes
- Can it rain frogs?
- Red sky at night ...
- Lightning never strikes twice
- Can animals predict the weather?
- Special weather days?
- 11. Curious Facts
- Gigantism in insects
- Length of day
- Ionosphere
- Space weather
- Sting jets
- Global connections
- 12. The Future
- Where is the weather heading?
- Hidden surprises?
- Future forecasts
- Geoengineering
- Weather on other planets
- The end of weather
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
