Understand The Weather

Teach Yourself

By: Peter Inness

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Paperback | 11 January 2024 | Edition Number 1

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Understand the Weather is a comprehensive and practical guide to the workings of the atmosphere. It will ensure that you not only understand what causes changes in the weather on a local, national and global scale but that you can also fully interpret weather broadcasts and are able to make your own predictions. Packed full of case studies, this book will explain both the weather we experience daily (winds, cold fronts, rain and shine) and the extreme weather that makes the headlines all too often (El Nino, Hurricane Katrina, floods). It will also focus on climate change and its effects - how will our weather be different in the future? Whether your job or leisure pursuits rely on the weather, or you just want to understand more about it, this book is ideal.

NOT GOT MUCH TIME?
One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.

AUTHOR INSIGHTS
Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience.

EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE
Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding.

FIVE THINGS TO REMEMBER
Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts.

TRY THIS
Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.

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Foreword	p. viii
Meet the author	p. x
Only got a minute?	p. xii
Only got five minutes?	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
A survey of the atmosphere	p. 4
The Sun	p. 4
Composition of the atmosphere	p. 8
The vertical structure of the atmosphere	p. 14
The global circulation	p. 20
The Hadley circulation	p. 21
The effect of the Earth's rotation	p. 24
The picture so far	p. 26
Mid-latitude waves and the jet stream	p. 27
Heat transport by the oceans	p. 32
The real global circulation	p. 33
Monsoons	p. 35
El Niño and the Southern Oscillation	p. 36
The global climate	p. 43
From climate to weather	p. 51
Weather systems	p. 54
Mid-latitude weather systems	p. 55
Atmospheric pressure, vertical motion and the weather	p. 56
High pressure: anticyclones	p. 60
Low pressure: mid-latitude depressions	p. 64
Frontal systems	p. 68
Tropical weather systems	p. 77
Wind convergence	p. 79
African easterly waves	p. 80
Tropical cyclones	p. 80
The Madden-Julian Oscillation	p. 84
Local weather effects	p. 88
Topographic effects	p. 89
Surface effects	p. 98
Coastal effects	p. 103
Fog	p. 109
Using local knowledge	p. 111
Wild weather	p. 114
Intense mid-latitude depressions	p. 115
Hurricanes	p. 119
Thunderstorms and hail	p. 124
Floods	p. 129
Tornadoes	p. 131
Snow and ice	p. 135
Drought	p. 140
Observing the weather	p. 146
Weather observations through history	p. 146
Two key seventeenth-century developments	p. 147
The development of weather observing networks	p. 155
Observing the weather today	p. 156
Making your own observations	p. 163
Operational weather forecasting	p. 169
A brief history	p. 171
Computer models	p. 182
The process of forecasting	p. 192
Using an NWP forecast	p. 198
Ensemble forecasting	p. 203
Post-processing	p. 205
Beyond the NWP forecast	p. 207
Between the forecasts	p. 209
Making your own forecasts	p. 215
Interpreting media forecasts	p. 216
Forecasting with no aids	p. 217
Aids to forecasting	p. 225
A forecast process	p. 226
Using forecast information from the internet	p. 238
Climate change	p. 244
The greenhouse effect	p. 245
The recent temperature record	p. 246
Other evidence for climate change	p. 249
What does the future hold?	p. 252
What can be done?	p. 255
Taking it further	p. 262
Appendix	p. 267
Glossary	p. 270
Index	p. 283
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