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The Atmosphere: Introduction to Meteorology
The Atmosphere Introduction to Meteorology Author:Frederick K. Lutgens, Edward J. Tarbuck This reader-friendly book offers current and comprehensive information about the atmosphereits components, problems, and applications. It features everyday examples to help the reader understand weather and climate, with incredible photographs, satellite images, and line art. Broad in scope and clearly and concisely written, this book fea... more »tures such topics as temperature, moisture and atmospheric stability, condensation and precipitation, air pressure and winds, circulation, air masses, weather patterns, thunderstorms and tornadoes, hurricanes, air pollution, world climates, and optical phenomena. For readers interested in a book that discusses up-to-date weather and climate issues that affect the world's people everyday; can also be utilized as a reference text for those in the field of meteorology and other earth sciences.« less