The Met Office Cloud Book - Updated Edition - How to Understand the Skies

An updated edition of The Cloud Book, featuring 12 new recognised cloud forms. This guide to the clouds helps you identify cloud types and understand their implications for the weather. It follows a logical progression from low clouds to high stratus clouds, and on to special clouds, with a foreword from the Met Office's chief meteorologist.

About the author

Dr Richard Hamblyn is the author of The Invention of Clouds (2002), which won the LA Times Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. He is also the author of The Cloud Book (2008), Extraordinary Clouds (2009) and Extraordinary Weather (2012). He is currently Writer in Residence at the Environment Institute, University College London.

Summary

An updated edition of The Cloud Book, featuring 12 new recognised cloud forms. This guide to the clouds helps you identify cloud types and understand their implications for the weather. It follows a logical progression from low clouds to high stratus clouds, and on to special clouds, with a foreword from the Met Office's chief meteorologist.

Foreword

A brand new edition of the bestselling Cloud Book, which has sold over 100,000 copies since 2008.
Include 12 new clouds that have only recently been officially recognised by the World Meteorological Organization.
Features a new foreword from the current Chief Meteorologist of the Met Office.
Includes updated information on climate change and human-made clouds such as contrails. 

Product details

• Authors: Richard Hamblyn, Richard (Author) Hamblyn, Hamblyn Richard, The Met The Met Office, The Met (Author) The Met Office
• Publisher: David & Charles
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781446308905
• ISBN: 978-1-4463-0890-5
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 169 mm x 262 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 534 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, NATURE / Weather, Weather, Weather and climate: general interest, Meteorology and climatology