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"We live at the bottom of an ocean of air 5,200 million million tons, to be exact. It sounds like a lot, but Earths atmosphere is smeared onto its surface in an alarmingly thin layer 99 percent contained within 18 miles. Yet, within this fragile margin lies a magnificent realm at once gorgeous, terrifying, capricious, and elusive. With his keen eye for identifying and uniting seemingly unrelated events, Chris Dewdney reveals to us the invisible...
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How do meteorologists design forecasts for the next day's, the next week's, or the next month's weather? Are some forecasts more likely to be accurate than others, and why? Making Sense of Weather and Climate takes readers through key topics in atmospheric physics and presents a cogent view of how weather relates to climate, particularly climate-change science. It is the perfect book for amateur meteorologists and weather enthusiasts, and for anyone...
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"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 principles were used in meteorology only after the turn of the twentieth century. From the first proposal for using mathematics to predict weather, to the supercomputers that...
6) Thin ice
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In recent years climate science has come under increasing attack, so concerned geologist Simon Lamb grabbed his camera and set out to explore the inside story of climate research. For over three years he followed scientists from a wide range of disciplines at work in the Arctic, Antarctic, Southern Ocean, New Zealand, Europe and the United States. They talk about their work, their hopes and fears with a rare candor and directness, resulting in an...
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From the glaciers of the Alps to the towering cumulonimbus clouds of the Caribbean and the unexpectedly chaotic flows of the North Atlantic, Waters of the World is a tour through 150 years of the history of a significant but underappreciated idea: that the Earth has a global climate system made up of interconnected parts, constantly changing on all scales of both time and space. A prerequisite for the discovery of global warming and climate change,...
11) Pacific Ocean
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"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to the Pacific Ocean. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
12) What is weather?
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This all-inclusive book takes a wide range of meteorological phenomena-including clouds, rain, snow, and fog-and examines their relationship to each other in order to explain how weather works in an easy-to-grasp way. Important scientific concepts such as energy, temperature, and electricity are described in the context of the weather cycle as well as the various climates on Earth, and how we as humans fit into the scheme. Key questions are posed...
13) Southern Ocean
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"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to the Southern Ocean. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
14) Atlantic Ocean
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"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to the Atlantic Ocean. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
15) What is climate?
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Describes the characteristics of the weather that make up the different types of climates around the world.
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"A field guide to the weather, including clouds, storm systems, and climate change. A resource for those intrigued by events in the sky--clouds, precipitation, storms, aurora, halos--and for those who follow daily weather events. Using a nontechnical approach, the authors describe the flow of energy and moisture through global and local landscapes and how they evolve into day-to-day weather. For those fascinated by the sky's colors and patterns, there...
17) Wild weather
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THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS PRESENTS WILD WEATHER is a photographic nonfiction companion book to the original bestselling title, THE MAGIC SCHOOL BUS INSIDE A HURRICANE.
INSIDE A HURRICANE took thousands of kids inside the eye of a hurricane. MAGIC SCHOOL BUS PRESENTS WILD WEATHER will expand upon the original title with fresh, updated Common Core-aligned content about incredible weather events. With vivid full-color photographs on each page and illustrations...
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"Weather is a science concept that the youngest meteorologists can understand. In fact, like real-life scientists, they can investigate the weather simply by looking out the window. Readers of this valuable volume will consider how certain activities are paired with kinds of weather. They'll review weather words while realizing there's lots of fun to be had in all sorts of weather! Full-color photographs and a picture glossary aid in reading comprehension."--...
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"Weather includes all the conditions in the air around us. Snow, rain, sleet, and hail are all forms of weather. So is the temperature of the air and the amount of moisture in it. Learn all about weather, including how and why it changes from place to place and time to time"--
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Weather is an important science concept at the early elementary level. Recognizing and identifying kinds of weather requires observational skills and certain vocabulary terms. This bright volume allows young meteorologists to correlate weather in carefully selected photographs with descriptive weather vocabulary, such as rainy, sunny, and foggy. It s never too early to tackle this essential STEM theme!
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