"Invisible in the Storm is the first book to recount the history, personalities, and ideas behind one of the greatest scientific successes of modern times--the use of mathematics in weather prediction. Although humans have tried to forecast weather for millennia, mathematical pr…
Fundamentals of the Physical Environment has established itself as a well-respected core introductory book for students of physical geography and the environmental sciences. Taking a systems approach, it demonstrates how the various factors operating at Earth's surface can and d…
Based on more than twenty years of research and lecturing, Jordi Vilà-Guerau de Arellano and his team's textbook provides an excellent introduction to the interactions between the atmosphere and the land for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and a reference text for r…
Reeds maritime meteorology
by Cornish, Maurice M., Cornish, Maurice M., Ives, Elaine E.
Wind: you feel it every day, but you never think about its place shaping history. Scientist and bestselling nature writer Bill Streever goes to any extreme to explore wind - the winds that built empires, the storms that wreck them. Narrating from a 50-year-old sailboat, Streever…
Examines the science of the air we breathe and how the smallest molecular changes in composition can make the difference between life and death