Gregory J. Hakim: Weather | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781108404655 | Weather | Gregory J. Hakim (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2019

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Beschreibung

An accessible, beautifully illustrated text, covering the fundamentals of meteorology in a concise and engaging manner.

Über den Autor

Gregory J. Hakim has undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Atmospheric Science and a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science from the State University of New York, Albany. He joined the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington in 1999, where he served as Department Chair from 2012 to 2017 and is currently a Professor. He is also a leading scientist in the areas of weather analysis, predictability, and dynamics, and his research interests include weather and climate prediction, hurricanes, past climates, and polar circulation patterns. He has served on the advisory panel for the Directorate of Geosciences at the National Science Foundation, as Chair of the advisory panel for the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), as a member of the NCAR Advisory Panel, as a member of the NCAR Strategic Planning Council, and as Chair of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research's President's Advisory Committee on University Relations.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Introduction; 1. Weather variables; 2. Spatial representations of weather data; 3. Our atmosphere: origin, composition, and structure; 4. Heat transfer; 5. Water; 6. Cloud formation; 7. precipitation; 8. Wind; 9. Global wind systems; 10. Air masses, fronts, and mid-latitude cyclones; 11. Thunderstorms and tornadoes; 12. Hurricanes; 13. Weather forecasting; 14. Air pollution; 15. Climate change and weather; Glossary; Credits; Index.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geowissenschaften , Importe
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781108404655
ISBN-10:	1108404650
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Hakim, Gregory J. Patoux, Jérôme
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	280 x 216 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Gregory J. Hakim (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	22.03.2019
Gewicht:	0,717 kg