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Author : Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : 0399532560
Discusses the history, types, and cultural fascination with clouds and explains what they mean in terms of climate and weather.
Author : John A. Day
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1402728131
Clouds are simple enough, just a collection of ice crystals or water droplets visible to everyone. Yet they are a source of endless wonder. They appear in an infinite number of shapes and forms. Some are beautiful, some awe inspiring, and some, like the whirling funnel cloud, are terrifying. Clouds inspire artists, poets, songwriters. They have reminded astronauts, looking down from space, that Earth, a seemingly abstract orb, is a place of life and movement. those great swirls of white-as they change shape, swell, evaporate into wisps, disappear and come back, glow with sunlight or darken with rain-are a constant reminder of how dynamic our planet is.
Author : Richard Hamblyn
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781780237701
Clouds have been objects of delight and fascination throughout human history, their fleeting magnificence and endless variety having inspired scientists and daydreamers alike. Described by Aristophanes as “the patron goddesses of idle men,” clouds and the ever-changing patterns they create have long symbolized the restlessness and unpredictability of nature, and yet they are also the source of life-giving rains. In this book, Richard Hamblyn examines clouds in their cultural, historic, and scientific contexts, exploring their prevalence in our skies as well as in our literature, art, and music. As Hamblyn shows, clouds function not only as a crucial means of circulating water around the globe but also as a finely tuned thermostat regulating the planet’s temperature. He discusses the many different kinds of clouds, from high, scattered cirrus clouds to the plump thought-bubbles of cumulus clouds, even exploring man-made clouds and clouds on other planets. He also shows how clouds have featured as meaningful symbols in human culture, whether as ominous portents of coming calamities or as ethereal figures giving shape to the heavens, whether in Wordsworth’s poetry or today’s tech speak. Comprehensive yet compact, cogent and beautifully illustrated, this is the ultimate guidebook to those shapeshifters of the sky.
Author : Dennis Lamb,Johannes Verlinde
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139500944
Clouds affect our daily weather and play key roles in the global climate. Through their ability to precipitate, clouds provide virtually all of the fresh water on Earth and are a crucial link in the hydrologic cycle. With ever-increasing importance being placed on quantifiable predictions - from forecasting the local weather to anticipating climate change - we must understand how clouds operate in the real atmosphere, where interactions with natural and anthropogenic pollutants are common. This textbook provides students - whether seasoned or new to the atmospheric sciences - with a quantitative yet approachable path to learning the inner workings of clouds. Developed over many years of the authors' teaching at Pennsylvania State University, Physics and Chemistry of Clouds is an invaluable textbook for advanced students in atmospheric science, meteorology, environmental sciences/engineering and atmospheric chemistry. It is also a very useful reference text for researchers and professionals.
Author : Joan Marie Galat
Publisher : Dot to Dot in the Sky
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1770502459
"Folklore from around the world relating to weather patterns, as well as sidebars explaining how the weather actually works scientifically."--
Author : Ronald Alfrod Ranson Tricker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0444196560
Author : Paul Fleisher
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761363286
How does a cloud form? When is the best time to see a rainbow in the sky? Why do ice cubes shrink in the freezer? The answers to these questions all involve water. So do the reasons why we have rain and snow. To understand weather, we have to know what happens to water at different temperatures, on the ground and in the air. In this fact-packed book, discover what happens when water changes from a liquid into a gas or a solid, and much more.
Author : David Randall
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400842773
An essential primer on atmospheric processes and their important role in the climate system The atmosphere is critical to climate change. It can amplify shifts in the climate system, and also mitigate them. This primer offers a short, reader-friendly introduction to these atmospheric processes and how they work, written by a leading expert on the subject. Giving readers an overview of key atmospheric processes, David Randall looks at how our climate system receives energy from the sun and sheds it by emitting infrared radiation back into space. The atmosphere regulates these radiative energy flows and transports energy through weather systems such as thunderstorms, monsoons, hurricanes, and winter storms. Randall explains how these processes work, and also how precipitation, cloud formation, and other phase changes of water strongly influence weather and climate. He discusses how atmospheric feedbacks affect climate change, how the large-scale atmospheric circulation works, how predicting the weather and the climate are fundamentally different challenges, and much more. This is the ideal introduction for students and nonspecialists. No prior experience in atmospheric science is needed, only basic college physics. Authoritative and concise, Atmosphere, Clouds, and Climate features a glossary of terms, suggestions for further reading, and easy-to-follow explanations of a few key equations. This accessible primer is the essential introduction to atmospheric processes and the vital role they play in our climate system.
Author : Ian Foster,Dennis B. Gannon
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262037242
A guide to cloud computing for students, scientists, and engineers, with advice and many hands-on examples. The emergence of powerful, always-on cloud utilities has transformed how consumers interact with information technology, enabling video streaming, intelligent personal assistants, and the sharing of content. Businesses, too, have benefited from the cloud, outsourcing much of their information technology to cloud services. Science, however, has not fully exploited the advantages of the cloud. Could scientific discovery be accelerated if mundane chores were automated and outsourced to the cloud? Leading computer scientists Ian Foster and Dennis Gannon argue that it can, and in this book offer a guide to cloud computing for students, scientists, and engineers, with advice and many hands-on examples. The book surveys the technology that underpins the cloud, new approaches to technical problems enabled by the cloud, and the concepts required to integrate cloud services into scientific work. It covers managing data in the cloud, and how to program these services; computing in the cloud, from deploying single virtual machines or containers to supporting basic interactive science experiments to gathering clusters of machines to do data analytics; using the cloud as a platform for automating analysis procedures, machine learning, and analyzing streaming data; building your own cloud with open source software; and cloud security. The book is accompanied by a website, Cloud4SciEng.org, that provides a variety of supplementary material, including exercises, lecture slides, and other resources helpful to readers and instructors.
Author : Richard Hamblyn,Met Office
Publisher : David and Charles
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781446381083
Become an expert on clouds and skies with this definitive guide to cloudspotting, produced in association with the Met Office. Clouds have been the object of fascination throughout history, providing food for thought for scientists and daydreamers alike. In this comprehensive guide to the skies, Dr. Richard Hamblyn introduces you to all the different cloud species, including twelve newly recognized cloud forms. 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 fluffy cloud or a tiny fleeting wisp, your cloudspotting will be expertly informed and much more satisfying with this guide. Not only will you be able to identify individual clouds as they appear, but also to track their likely changes over time, and thus predict weather patterns. Illustrated with stunning images from around the globe, this book will unlock the mysteries of the skies so that you can enjoy cloudspotting and skygazing every day.
Author : A. Pier Siebesma,Sandrine Bony,Christian Jakob,Bjorn Stevens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781107061071
Comprehensive overview of research on clouds and their role in our present and future climate, for advanced students and researchers.
Author : David K. Lynch,William Charles Livingston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-06-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521775043
We live in a world of optical marvels - from the commonplace but beautiful rainbow, to the rare and eerie superior mirage. But how many of us really understand how a rainbow is formed, why the setting sun is red and flattened, or even why the sky at night is not absolutely black? This beautiful and informative guide provides clear explanations to all naturally occurring optical phenomena seen with the naked eye, including shadows, halos, water optics, mirages and a host of other spectacles. Separating myth from reality, it outlines the basic principles involved, and supports them with many figures and references. A wealth of rare and spectacular photographs, many in full color, illustrate the phenomena throughout. In this new edition of the highly-acclaimed guide to seeing, photographing and understanding nature's optical delights, the authors have added over 50 new images and provided new material on experiments you can try yourself.
Author : Richard Hamblyn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Clouds
ISBN : 0330391941
The Invention of Clouds takes as its focus a specific scientific advance of the early nineteenth century, but it also addresses other issues of the day, such as culture, religion, aesthetics, literature etc. At the time such things werent divided into separate disciplines, a mentality that is reflected by the book itself.
Author : Alexander P. Khain,Mark Pinsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521767439
Provides a comprehensive analysis of modern theories of cloud microphysical processes and their representation in numerical cloud models.
Author : Josepha Sherman
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1404803416
Clouds come in all sorts of types, including cumulus, cumulonimbus, stratus, and cirrus. Learn how to tell each cloud type apart.