ISBN: 9780547133317

Description: pages cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• The atmosphere
• Clouds and precipitations
• An atlas of clouds
• Unusual clouds
• A view from the air
• Weather satellites
• Winds
• Airmasses, fronts, and weather systems
• Extreme weather
• Atmospheric optics
• The historical foundations of meteorology
• Appendix : atmospheres of planets, moons, and exoplanets.

LCCN: 2020051042

Control Number: 3103525

Series:

• Peterson field guides
• Peterson field guides.

Subjects:

• Climatology.
• Weather.

Genre: Field guides.

Other Authors:

• Day, John A. (Writer on weather), author.
• Pasachoff, Jay M., author.