Weather
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For thousands of years humans have tried to understand, predict and even control the weather. A topic of wide popular discussion, weather is also the subject of increasing scientific study. This book explains how patterns of weather occur both around the globe and at a local level, and shows how to interpret weather signs and charts. It reveals the importance of climate in determining landscape, and the remarkable adaptations of flora and fauna to sometimes inhospitable conditions. It also highlights the latest findings on climate change, global warming and ozone depletion, and includes up-to-the-minute images of world weather taken from space.
Author: Edward J. Hopkins
Format: Hardback, 304 pages, 240mm x 240mm, 1437 g
Published: 2004, Pan Macmillan Australia, Australia
Genre: Natural History: General
Description
For thousands of years humans have tried to understand, predict and even control the weather. A topic of wide popular discussion, weather is also the subject of increasing scientific study. This book explains how patterns of weather occur both around the globe and at a local level, and shows how to interpret weather signs and charts. It reveals the importance of climate in determining landscape, and the remarkable adaptations of flora and fauna to sometimes inhospitable conditions. It also highlights the latest findings on climate change, global warming and ozone depletion, and includes up-to-the-minute images of world weather taken from space.
Weather