The New Weather Book

Author : Michael Oard
Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781614584339

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The New Weather Book by Michael Oard Pdf

A fresh and compelling look at wild and awesome examples of weather in this revised and updated book in the Wonders of Creation series! Did you know the hottest temperature ever recorded was 134° F (56.7° C) on July 10, 1913 in Death Valley, California? The highest recorded surface wind speed was in the May 3, 1999, Oklahoma tornado, measured at 302 mph (486 kph)! The most snow to fall in a one-year period is 102 feet (3,150 cm) at Mount Rainier, Washington, from February 19, 1971 to February 18, 1972! From the practical to the pretty amazing, this book gives essential details into understanding what weather is, how it works, and how other forces that impact on it. Learn why storm chasers and hurricane hunters do what they do and how they are helping to solve storm connected mysteries. Discover what makes winter storms both beautiful and deadly, as well as what is behind weather phenomena like St. Elmo’s Fire. Find important information on climate history and answers to the modern questions of supposed climate change. Get safety tips for preventing dangerous weather related injuries like those from lightning strikes, uncover why thunderstorms form, as well as what we know about the mechanics of a tornado and other extreme weather examples like flash floods, hurricanes and more. A fresh and compelling look at wild and awesome examples of weather in this revised and updated book in the Wonders of Creation series!

Author : Friederike Otto
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781771646154

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Angry Weather by Friederike Otto Pdf

From leading climate scientist Dr. Friederike Otto, this gripping book reveals the revolutionary science that definitively links extreme weather events—including deadly heat waves, forest fires, floods, and hurricanes—to climate change. “Meet the forensic scientists of climate change; if you like CSI, you’ll be equally enthralled with the skill and speed these folks exhibit. But the stakes are infinitely higher!” —Bill McKibben, author of Falter and The End of Nature Tied with Hurricane Katrina as the costliest cyclone on record, Hurricane Harvey caused catastrophic flooding and over a hundred deaths in 2017. Angry Weather tells the compelling, day-by-day story of the World Weather Attribution unit—a team of scientists that studies extreme weather events while they’re happening—and their race to track the connection between the hurricane and climate change. As the hurricane unfolds, Otto reveals how attribution science works in real time, and determines that Harvey’s terrifying floods were three times more likely to occur due to human-induced climate change. At the forefront of cutting-edge climate science, Friederike Otto uncovers how the new ability to determine climate change’s role in extreme weather events can dramatically transform how we view the climate crisis: from how it will affect those of us who are most vulnerable, to the corporations and governments that may find themselves held accountable in the courts. The research laid out in Angry Weather will have profound impacts, both today and for the future of humankind. Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.

Author : Michael Ord
Publisher : Master Books
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-31
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1893345599

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The Weather Book Study Guide by Michael Ord Pdf

These five study guides, available for each book in the Wonders of Creation series, are comprehensive and invaluable for teaching settings. With terms, short answer questions, discussion questions and activity ideas, each guide will enhance the learning experience.

Author : Paul Douglas
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1402752237

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Restless Skies by Paul Douglas Pdf

Improved technology is teaching us more about the weather all the time, and with new knowledge comes new concerns and confusion. Is global warming real? What is a NEXRAD Doppler? Meteorologist Paul Douglas provides the answers to all these questions and more, along with fascinating illustrations, photos, trivia, and graphics. Find out what a difference a degree makes; as well as information about El Ni�o and how to protect yourself against the worst that the weather can bring. From the distinctions between a weather warning, watch, and advisory to the definition of an F-5 tornado, all the essentials are clearly explained.

Author : Erick Brenstrum
Publisher : Craig Potton Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Meteorology
ISBN : 0908802471

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The New Zealand Weather Book by Erick Brenstrum Pdf

An accessible, interesting and accurate guide to New Zealand weather, with a particular emphasis on assisting people to improve their understanding and interpretation of weather forecasts and events. Heavily illustrated with colour illustrations and photographs, this book is aimed at the large and diverse market of people who either work or recreate in the outdoors, and has immediately become the classic book on this vital subject.

Author : Maike Biederstadt
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9783791373935

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The Weather by Maike Biederstadt Pdf

From raucous stormy seas to a welcomingly vivid rainbow, weather's most exciting moments come to brilliant life in this fantastic new pop-up book. In her hugely successful books Creatures of the Deep and What's in the Egg, as well as her enormously popular series of greeting cards for the Museum of Modern Art, Maike Biederstaedt has established herself as one of the preeminent paper artists working today. Now Biederstaedt takes book engineering to new heights as she immerses readers in five electrifying weather scenarios. As each spread unfolds, a meticulously designed landscape emerges--a freighter balances like a nutshell between high waves in the sea; a tornado takes terrifying aim at a truck trying to outrun it; a rain-spewing storm cloud towers like a skyscraper over a farm house. Nature's delicate beauty emerges in the intricate shapes of a snowflake and in the luminous arc of a rainbow. Each page features an informative description of its weather event and the book closes with sobering commentary on the effects of climate change. A wondrous introduction to weather for budding climatologists, this is also an artistic tour de force that collectors will treasure.

Author : Paul Douglas
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0760761132

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Restless Skies by Paul Douglas Pdf

Really attractive! Great pictures and illustrations-lots of great weather and climate information."--Willard Scott, Today Show weather reporter "Paul uses his 25 years...as a meteorologist to let readers explore the why and hows of weather...a fascinating look at the forces that influence our lives every day."--Mike Seidel, Weather Channel meteorologist Improved technology is teaching us more about the weather all the time, and with new knowledge comes new concerns and confusion. Is global warming real? Where is Tornado Alley? And just what are GOES satellites and NEXRAD Doppler? Meteorologist Paul Douglas provides the answers to all these questions and more, along with vivid and fascinating illustrations, photos, trivia, and graphics. Find out what a difference a degree makes; as well as information about El Ni�o, the 15 worst storms of the century, and how to protect yourself against the worst that the weather can bring. From the distinctions between a weather warning, watch, and advisory to the definition of an F-5 tornado, it has all the essentials, clearly explained.

Author : Paul Muldoon
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571263790

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New Weather by Paul Muldoon Pdf

New Weather was Paul Muldoon's first book of poems. When it appeared in 1973, Seamus Heaney described its author as 'unusually gifted, endowed with an individual sense of rhythm, a natural and copious vocabulary, a technical accomplishment and an intellectual boldness that mark him as the most promising poet to appear in Ireland for years.' While the promise has been amply fulfilled, New Weather gives the poet's many, more recent admirers the opportunity to see what a versatile and substantial artist he was from the outset.

Author : Jon Nese,Glenn Schwartz
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1592133916

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The Philadelphia Area Weather Book by Jon Nese,Glenn Schwartz Pdf

Answers various questions about Philadelphia's weather and climate, from the Poconos and Philadelphia to southern New Jersey and the Shore to Delaware. This book offers a history of the region's pivotal role in the development of weather science that goes back to colonial times and gives an account of what forecasters actually do on a daily basis.

Author : Ben Gelber
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0813530563

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The Pennsylvania Weather Book by Ben Gelber Pdf

A television meteorologist in Columbus, Ohio, Gelber offers a comprehensive source of historical weather events in Pennsylvania in hopes that it will provide a chronological database with sufficient information and sources for others to document past weather events in their own communities. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : Sean Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Boys
ISBN : OCLC:1391660287

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The Time of New Weather by Sean Murphy Pdf

Author : Jack Williams
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997-07-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780679776659

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The USA Today Weather Book by Jack Williams Pdf

Featuring the full-color weather graphics of America's favorite newspaper, here is a newly revised edition of the most readable guide to our nation's weather. It also includes an updated state-by-state guide to weather patterns and scientifically accurate records. Online promo.

Author : Jack Williams
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781935704553

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The AMS Weather Book by Jack Williams Pdf

America has one of the most varied and dynamic weather systems in the world. Every year, the Gulf Coast is battered by hurricanes, the Great Plains are ravaged by tornados, the Midwest is pummeled by blizzards, and the temperature in the Southwest reaches a sweltering 120 degrees. Extreme weather can be a matter of life and death, but even when it is pleasant—72 degrees and sunny—weather is still central to the lives of all Americans. Indeed, it’s hard to imagine a topic of greater collective interest. Whether we want to know if we should close the storm shutters or just carry an umbrella to work, we turn to forecasts. But few of us really understand the science behind them. All that changes with The AMS Weather Book. The most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to our weather and our atmosphere, it is the ultimate resource for anyone who wants to understand how hurricanes form, why tornados twirl, or even why the sky is cerulean blue. Written by esteemed science journalist and former USA Today weather editor Jack Williams, The AMS Weather Book covers everything from daily weather patterns to air pollution and global warming and explores the stories of people coping with severe weather and those who devote their lives to understanding the atmosphere, oceans, and climate. Words alone, of course, are not adequate to explain many meteorological concepts, so The AMS Weather Book is filled with engaging full-color graphics that explain such concepts as why winds blow in a particular direction, how Doppler weather radar works, what happens inside hurricanes, how clouds create wind and snow, and what’s really affecting the earth’s climate. For Weather Channel junkies, amateur meteorologists, and storm chasers alike, The AMS Weather Book is an invaluable tool for anyone who wants to better understand how weather works and how it affects our lives.

Author : Andrew Revkin,Lisa Mechaley
Publisher : Union Square & Company Illustrated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Science
ISBN : 1454921404

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Weather by Andrew Revkin,Lisa Mechaley Pdf

Andrew Revkin, who is the senior climate reporter at ProPublica after a prize-winning 21-year stint at The New York Times, presents an intriguing illustrated history of humanity's evolving relationship with Earth's dynamic climate system and the wondrous weather it generates.--Amazon.

Author : Sean Murphy
Publisher : Delta
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-12-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780440335115

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The Time of New Weather by Sean Murphy Pdf

THE TIME OF NEW WEATHER IS AT HAND–AND IT’S NOT A PRETTY SIGHT. In this exhilarating adventure of absurdist wit, rollicking revolution and romance, the future isn’t what it used to be and the past won’t leave us alone. Bringing to mind1984 and Brave New World–but with his own twist of gleeful humor–award-winning author Sean Murphy presents a vision of an America gone off the rails: an America where it literally rains cats and dogs, where a hubcap ranch is now a National Preservation Site, where a horde of circus folk and Elvis fans are on the rampage–and where some rather suspicious things are going on with time and gravity. Into this world is born Buddy Le Blanc, a young boy with a special gift: the ability to perform tiny miracles. Nothing big, like raising the dead or curing the sick–more like an uncanny knack for finding spare change. He longs to find a way to make a difference; but in a world where time and gravity storms can spring up at a moment’s notice (sending your belongings hurtling through the roof, or off to the Renaissance) and big business has gobbled up the U.S. government (now renamed The America Corporation), it’s hard to get your foot in the door. But when Buddy joins up with a cast of fellow seekers–renegade circus freaks, ragtag revolutionaries, a woman in search of her hat, and a particularly gorgeous journalist–in the hope of waking America up from its dream, the fate of the country may just end up in his not-so-capable hands.…