Product Description

For introductory courses in Meteorology and Weather & Climate.

A first-rate textbook and inspired technology tutorials work together to engage students in the process of learning about atmospheric behavior. The authors use everyday occurrences to illustrate meteorology and climatology. Dynamic illustrations from the book come to life in the fully integrated student website, where a narrator guides students through animated tutorials, video footage and satellite loops of atmospheric phenomena.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #444677 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-10
• Binding: Paperback
• 608 pages

From the Back Cover

• Tutorials, three-dimensional diagrams and animations ease the presentation of difficult-to-visualize material. Topics include: —Solar Geometry —Atmospheric Moisture —The Coriolis Force —Wind and Pressure Aloft —Global Energy Balance —Adiabatic Processes —Atmosheric Forces and Motion —Cyclones and Anticyclones —Weather in Motion movies, depict events and phenomena discussed in the text.
• Weather Images, provide additional illustrations of weather phenomena. These include photographs, satellite images, and computer diagrams that complement the text.
• Media Library provides additional resources for self-guided browsing by the student.
• Student Activities are short interactive exercises. These exercises cover important topics such as hurricanes and earth-sun relations and are prefaced by the Media Enrichment boxes included in the text.

http://www.prenhall.com/aguado

• The text specific website includes multiple choice questions, quantitative exercises, critical thinking exercises and destinations.

About the Author
Ed Aguado is a Professor of Geography at San Diego State University. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in 1983, and his research interests include Precipitation and Hydrology of Western U.S. Mountains. He is also involved in consulting and is an expert witness on climatology and weather.

Jim Burt is a Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He earned his Ph.D. in Geography from UCLA in 1980, and his research areas include Physical Geography, Climatology, Quantitative Methods, and Geovisualization. He is the Co-principal investigator for SoLIM (Soil Land Inference Model) for soil mapping based on recent developments in geographic information science (GISc), artificial intelligence (AI), and information representation theory.

Customer Reviews

A very clear and well thought out book
I am in my first year at University studying for a Geography Degree, I found this book extremely useful whilst revising for my assessments and also for reading around the subject. The contents of the book is very clear and easy to understand. The pictures and photos are in colour and visually interesting, with a very useful Glossary at the back of the book. I would recommend this book for anyone studying the Earths Atmosphere at any level.