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This volume simply and clearly covers all important elements of dynamic meteorology: meteorological thermodynamics, statics, hydrostatic stability, atmospheric radiation, hydrodynamics, energy, and circulation. Yet, despite its breadth, this work assumes no more than a sophomore physics and calculus background. ... Read more

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A very nice introduction to the basics
Although quite compact, this book is packed with useful information.The discussion of water and all the associated moisture variables is complete and organized. It would be difficult to find a better discussion of the wide variety of thermodynamic diagrams available (skew-T ln P, emagram, tephigram, Stuve). The only place where this book suffers is in the lack of vector notation.Don't expect to find references to modern instrumentation--this book was written almost 50 years ago! Nevertheless, the topics chosen have passed the test of time.An excellent introduction to the essential background for all meteorologists.

An excellent introduction to theoretical meteorology!
First published in 1959, this text is a true classic and has stood thetest of time. Very few mathematical or gramatical errors (I know of none!).Written in a clear and concise fashion. Truly one of my favoritemeteorology texts! ... Read more

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Not a book for hobbyist
This is an extensive guide that suited more to a meteorologist or a very serious hobbyist. You will need some background in meteorology and some math or this book will go over your head as it relays heavily on math to determine MCS.But if you want to know about MCS and how to forecast severe weather than this guide is for you. ... Read more

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Excellent BOOK HIGHLY RECCOMENDED!!!!
As A Senior meteorology major, I bought this book, and I find it
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PREFACE This book owes its existence to a course on meteorology which >i been given by the author i n Williama College for the last eight years. This course is a Junior and Senior elective course "with three exercises a week during a half year. _A_ syllabus, covering both the text-book used and the added material, was prepared for the course. This was at first mimeographed, then revised and printed. Later it was again revised and reprinted. This book follows the order of topics in this last syllabus very closely, and is thus essentially a r^simi<5 of the material which has been gathered for the course. This book is essentially a text-book. For this reason, the marginal comments at the sides of the pages, the questions, topics for investigation, and practical exercises have been added. A. syllabus of each chapter has been placed at its beginning, and the book has been divided into numbered sections, each treating a definite topic. The book is also intendefl for the general reader of

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The forecast for learning meteorology is bright! With nineteen hands-on activities, ten readings, and a thorough resource guide, Project Earth Science: Meteorology brings the atmosphere right into the classroom. Designed for small budgets, Meteorology is teacher-written and classroom-tested, with ready-to-use, self-directed activities. These activities require students to make clouds and hail; build weather maps; and understand the causes of smog, ozone depletion, and acid rain. Whether it s exploring basic principles or following real-world examples, your students will agree discovering how weather works was never this much fun! ... Read more

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INTRODUCTION TO METEOROLOGY by SVERRE PETTERSSEN.Preface:The aim of this book is to present in an elementary manner the basic principles of modern meteorology. Intended for students without previous acquaintance with the subject, it is written in response to a demand for a nontechnical text to serve the many short and elementary courses in meteorology already in progress in the United States. It is written more for the purpose of creating interest and background than for furnishing a technical and detailed discussion of the various branches of meteorology. For this reason the use of calculus in the presentation of mete orological theories has been avoided. Actually, this book is an expansion of a chapter on meteorology written for the British Empire edition and the American edition of Weemss Air Navigation and an abbreviation of the authors recent book Weather Analysis and Forecasting. 1 However, this book is not addressed specifically to pilots or weather forecasters, although its leaning is decidedly toward synoptic and aeronautical meteorology. On account of its elementary character, the text does not con tain references to meteorological journals and papers. Instead, a list of advanced textbooks is included to assist the reader in finding more advanced literature on meteorology. The authors warm thanks go to Miss Margaret Whitcomb for her valuable assistance in revising the text, preparing the dia grams and tables, proofreading, and indexing. SVERRE PETTERSSEN.Contents include:PREFACE v INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER I. THE ATMOSPHERE 3 Composition Impurities Structure Stratification. II. OBSERVATIONS AND INSTRUMENTS 10 The Mercurial Barometer Pressure Pressure Units Varia tion in Pressure with Elevation The Aneroid Barometer-The Barograph The Altimeter Temperature The Thermo graph-Humidity Humidity Instruments Meteorographs, Wind Direction and - Velocity-Pilot Balloon Observations Classification of Clouds Fog and Mist Haze Precipitation Clouds and Precipitation Cloudiness Ceiling Visibility Use of Meteorological Observations. III. EVAPORATION, CONDENSATION, AND PRECIPITATION 43 Evaporation Nuclei of Condensation the Condensation Process The Precipitation Process. IV. ADIABATIC TEMPERATURE CHANCES 49 The Gas Law The First Law of Thermodynamics Adiabatic Processes Ascent and Descent of Nonsaturated Air Ascent and Descent of Saturated Air The Adiabatic Chart Poten tial Temperature Evaluation of the Condensation Level. V. STABILITY AND INSTABILITY 61 Definitions Nonsaturated Air-Saturated Air Conditional Instability Convective Instability. VI. TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS AND THEIR RELATION TO THE WEATHER PHENOMENA 68 Sources of Heat Radiation Transfer of Heat Vertical Mix ing - Horizontal Mixing Heating and Cooling of Air over Land Heating and Cooling of Air over Oceans Heating and Cooling of Traveling Air Masses Convection Convective Clouds Thunderstorms Inversions Formation of Fog Diurnal Variation of Fog Fog over Snow-covered ground Classification of Fog Distribution of Fog Ice Accretion. ... Read more

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Introduction to Meteorology.
Sverre, Petterssen is a true leader, and his books are the greatest. onlyproblem is they are hard to get a hold of. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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The main objective of this dictionary is to bring all branches of meteorology science up-to-date with special attention given to application fields, as well as to agrometeorology, climatology, hydrometeorology, environmental meteorology, aeronautical meteorology, marine meteorology and radiometeorology. The dictionary includes the most important terms used in weather bulletins and textbooks. It is indispensable for the day to day use of students, investigators, and translators working in meteorological and geophysics institutes and universities.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER II. Apparatus And Methods. § .-Thermometers.rjISTORfCAL.—The history of the early deve- lopment of the thermometer is not known with certainty, but in the latter part of the sixteenth century Galileo used at Padua a kind of thermo- scope which consisted of a glass bulb () with a narrow bore tube (b), a couple of spans in length, attached. A general idea of the construction is given in Fig. I. After the air in the bulb had been rarified by heating, the open end of the tube was inserted into water in an open vessel (c), and the tube was held upright. The water would rise to some extent in the tube, as the air in the bulb cooled ; and the level of the water in the tube would oscillate somewhat with any change of temperature to which the air bulb would be subjected. In this first instrument the fluctuations of the atmospheric pressure would of course introduce some errors, but the principle of the modern thermometer had been discovered, and its further completion did not need the genius of Galileo to develop it. It is not certain who suggested the next step in the gradual improvement of the instrument. Abbe ascribes it to Galileo, and Hellmann thinks that the search nowbeing made by Javaro concerning Galileo's career may bring to light some further information. At present, however, we must say (according to Hellmann) that a French physician, Jean Rey, about the year 1631, conceived the idea of inverting the Galileo thermometer and filling it with a liquid and observing the expansion of this. Sometime before 1641, the Grand Duke Ferdinand II. had adopted the plan of using alcohol as the fluid, and closing the open end of the tube so as to exclude the air.The members of the Acca- j demia del Cimento, most of whom were pupils of Galileo, devised several forms of therm... ... Read more

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Publisher: Oxford, The Clarendon pressPublication date: 1920Subjects: Meteorology -- AustraliaAeronautics -- AustraliaNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This book has been designed for use both as a text for students of the atmospheric sciences and as an up-to-date sourcebook for researchers in allied fields who need guidance into particular topics. As a text, the book is suitable for advanced undergraduates and first-year graduate students, and each of its ten chapters concludes with a short problem set. As a sourcebook, the largely self-contained topical chapters introduce basic concepts and provide bibliographic pathways through the current literature for professionals in such fields as remote sensing of the atmosphere by earth satellite monitoring, solar energy, and acid rain.Four chapters cover the atmospheric aerosol and cloud physics, and four cover the processes of radiative transfer. Extended treatment is given to these two broad groups of phenomena because they directly affect the structure and motions of the atmosphere.In addition, there is a chapter on optical phenomena in the atmosphere (including refraction, mirages, the rainbow, the glory, the corona, the heiligenschein) and one on atmospheric electricity (covering the electrical structure of the fair weather atmosphere, the several proposed theories of thunderstorm charging and a discussion of the lightning stroke).Henry Houghton, a past president of the American Meteorological Society and long-time head of the MIT meteorology department, is universally recognized as one of the leading authorities on the subject of physical meteorology. His book is the culmination of more than 30 years of research and teaching at MIT, where he is now professor emeritus. ... Read more

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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Air Pollution Meteorology and Dispersion provides a concise yet thorough review of the basic theories, models, experiments, and observations of pollutant dispersal in the atmosphere. It offers the theoretical and empirical bases of frequently used dispersion models while emphasizing the limitations and uncertainties inherent in these models. Organized into twelve chapters, the material is presented in order of increasing difficulty. The first half of the book treats the basic tenets of air pollution modeling; the second half deals with the more detailed theoretical and observational aspects of dispersion. Sufficient background material on atmospheric structure, dynamics, and circulation systems and their importance to atmospheric dispersion is included for students who do not yet have a strong meteorological background. Turbulence and diffusion theories, such as gradient transport, statistical, and similarity theories, as well as analytical and numerical dispersion and air quality models, are also discussed. Problems and exercises are included in each chapter, making this an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses in atmospheric science and mechanical engineering. ... Read more

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Good textbook
Good overall review of air pollution meteorology; easy to read and understand. Also contains related equations and examples. ... Read more

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This book, the only one of its kind available, presents PCA from its simplest form through its abstract formalism, including applications. Furthermore, it extends the use of PCA far beyond its well-known applications to scalar (e.g. temperature) or vector (e.g. wind) fields. Much of the material is hitherto unpublished, thus greatly extending the realm of applicability of PCA, and many suggestions are made for its future application. The first half of the book provides a comprehensive discussion of PCA, including solved numerical examples, beginning with a simple bivariate data set and progressing to the PCA of multivariate fields. The use of selection rules to establish statistical significance is emphasized. The second half of the book compares PCA with other analysis techniques such as Factor Analysis, Linear Regression Analysis, and Canonical Factor Analysis. The book also discusses the use of PCA in construction of statistical-dynamical models, in the detection of moving patterns in data sets, and in studies of stationary random processes. ... Read more

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The Bible of PCA... out of print!
This book is so complete that you may want to have it as a reference book in your library. The book starts with very simple examples of bivariate data distributions in order to explain the notion of Principal Components, from many points of view like statistical, physical (called here "dynamical"), with real values, with complex values. Then it goes on to to multivariate fields, time modulation, space modulation and going deep with many applications like cluster analysis, canonical correlation and complex harmonic analysis. In my opinion this is not a book for undergraduate students, but for people who already has a strong understanding of linear algebra and accustomed to the matrix formalism as well. But by compiling such a wide range of theory and applications the Editor (this is a posthumous book) has produced a very complete book for researchers and graduate students. A must-have... pity that it's out of print. It is possible to make an online petition asking for a new editon -perhaps?
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Originally published in 1886.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Statistical techniques, in particular time series techniques, arewidely used in astronomy and meteorology. Despite this, until recently therehave been few attempts to bring researchers from the fields of statistics,astronomy, and meteorology together to discuss and formalize important problems.Applications of Time Series Analysis in Astronomy and Meteorology bringstogether a series of papers by experts in these fields, evenly devoted to thetheory and methodology of time series, and to its applications to astronomy,meteorology, and climatology. The topics covered include detection ofperiodicities, spectral analysis of unequally spaced data, detection of changepoints and higher order spectral methods of non-linear and non-Gaussian signals.Estimation of fractal dimension and applications of wavelet methods to astronomyare also considered.Applications of Time Series Analysis in Astronomy and Meteorology is of interestto statisticians, astronomers, meteorologists, and climatologists alike. ... Read more