The weather handbook. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alan Watts.
• Authors: Watts, Alan
• Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Contents; About this book; 1 Significant Weather; 2 Looking at the Sky; Cloud decks; The cloud catalogue; 3 Clouds and Cloudiness; Satellite cloudscapes; Clues from space; Holes in the clouds; When the isobars bend; Cyclonic; Cloudiness; 4 From the Four Winds; The world's weather systems; Source regions; Blocking highs; Sources for America; Other airmasses; 5 The Message in the Winds; A model depression; Upper winds; Contour charts; Winds over lows; When warmer air is coming; Watching the cirrus; Better weather coming; 6 Weather Systems; Occluding depressions. Warm frontsSigns in the sky; The passing front; The warm sector; The cold front; 7 Tying up Low Weather; Real situations; Waves in the upper westerlies; Proving the Crossed Winds rules; The rules in practice; 8 When Cold Air is Coming; The cold front; Inversions of temperature; The over-night inversion; The subsidence inversion; 9 Low Winds and Weather; The surface wind; Wind shifts and fronts; Lesser lows; Wave lows; Heat lows; Polar lows; 10 A Day's Wind; Winds of the early morning; Winds in the forenoon; Winds in the afternoon; Winds coastwise; 11 When Showers are Forecast. What makes a shower?Looking for shower clouds; The life of a shower; Winds around showers; Showers on coasts; Other kinds of showers; 12 Facts about Wind; Wind and pressure; Wind and coasts; Local winds; Sea-breezes; The sea-breeze season; Nocturnal winds; Mountain winds; Inland local winds; 13 Rain and Snow; Drizzle; Rain; The windscreen-wiper rain-gauge; Rain and driving; Snow; 14 High Weather; Blocking highs; Fog; Frost; 15 Thunder and Lightning; Thunderstorm cells; Timing the storm; High level storms; Supercells; 16 Some Fundamental Principles. Fundamental Principle 1 (FP1): Establish the kind of airstreamFP 2: Consider possible changes; FP 3: The wind veers with height when a warmer airmass is on the way and backs when a colder one is coming; FP 4: Winds blow anti-clockwise about lows and clockwise about highs (reverse this for the Southern Hemisphere); FP 5: Weather worsens under cyclonic and improves under anticyclonic curvature of the isobars; FP 6: Short forecast -- soon past. Long foretold -- long hold; FP 7: Intensity times time tends to be constant; FP 8: Lows that deepen slow down and vice versa. FP 9: Strong weather stems from strong temperature contrastFP 10: What goes up must come down; FP 11: Weather moves in a continuous manner; FP 12: Heat seeks cold; FP 13: Cold over warm is unstable. Warm over cold is stable; FP 14: Wind equalises; 17 Conclusion; 18 Information and Explanations; Index; Acknowledgements; Copyright.
• Edition: Third edition
• Publisher Details: London, England : Adlard Coles Nautical
• Publication Date: 2014
• Copyright Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (162 pages), color illustrations, photographs
• Subjects: 551.6; Meteorology & climatology; Weather -- Miscellanea; Weather -- Management; Weather -- Management; Weather -- Miscellanea -- Juvenile literature; Weather -- Miscellanea; SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography; SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geology; Weather; Nature -- Weather; Science -- Earth Sciences -- Meteorology & Climatology; Sports & Recreation -- Boating; Boating; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781472913890; 1472913892; 9781472913883; 1472913884
• Related ISBNs: 9781472905499
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 11, 2014).
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