Visualizing Weather and Climate: (Visualizing Series)

Visualizing Weather and Climate offers students a valuable opportunity to identify and connect the central issues of weather, climate, and the atmosphere through a visual approach. The text is organized around the premise that weather and climate are two interrelated and equally important influences upon environmental processes and human activity. As students explore the critical topics of weather and climate, their study of the role of the atmosphere is interwoven with the behavior of the oceans, land surfaces, ecosystems, and human activity.   Visualizing Weather and Climate integrates visuals with text to elucidate concepts for students and solidify their understanding of them. The accessible format allows students to navigate through the material with greater ease.

Table of Contents:
1 Introducing Weather and Climate 2 2 The Earth’s Atmosphere 28 3 The Earth’s Global energy Balance 50 4 Surface Temperature and its Variation 82 5 Atmospheric Moisture 120 6 Winds 154 7 Global Atmospheric and Oceanic Circulation 182 8 Midatitude Weather Systems 216 9 Tropical Weather Systems 244 10 Thunderstorms and Tornadoes 268 11 The Global Scope of Climate 298 12 Climates of the World 320 13 Climate Variability 352 14 Human Interaction with Weather and Climate 384 15 Weather Forecasting and Numerical Modeling 412 16 Human-Induced Climate Change and Climate Forecasting 440 Appendix A Units of Measurement and Conversion 472 B The U.S. Standard Atmosphere 473 C Weather Station and Map Symbols 474 D Self-Test Answer Key 475 Glossary 476 Credits 489 Index 493

About the Author :
Bruce T. Anderson is an Associate Chair of the Department of Geography and Environment at Boston University. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department. He serves as a Research Consultant for the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA) project and heads the Experimental Center for Remote Observations of Production (ECROP). He serves on the Membership Committee for the American Meteorological Society. He has been a National Research Council Fellow and a NOAA Visiting Scientist Fellow. He has over 25 peer-reviewed articles published or in press over the last 5 years and has been the invited speaker at both national and international universities, conferences, and workshops. His research interests include regional impacts of climate variability, large-scale and regional atmospheric dynamics and hydrology, coupled ocean-atmosphere variability, and climate/vegetation interactions and feedbacks. He received his Ph.D. from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1998 and graduated with a B.S. in Physics from University of California, Santa Barbara in 1994.