The Atmosphere: An Introduction to Meteorology, Ninth Edition - Hardcover

Lutgens, Frederick K.; Tarbuck, Edward J.; Tasa, Dennis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0131015672 ISBN 13: 9780131015678

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2003

Synopsis

This reader-friendly book offers current and comprehensive information about the atmosphere?its components, problems, and applications. It features everyday examples to help the reader understand weather and climate, with incredible photographs, satellite images, and line art. Broad in scope and clearly and concisely written, this book features such topics as temperature, moisture and atmospheric stability, condensation and precipitation, air pressure and winds, circulation, air masses, weather patterns, thunderstorms and tornadoes, hurricanes, air pollution, world climates, and optical phenomena. For readers interested in a book that discusses up-to-date weather and climate issues that affect the world's people everyday; can also be utilized as a reference text for those in the field of meteorology and other earth sciences.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Traditional in both structure and approach, this text offers a current and comprehensive introduction to the atmosphere, its components, problems, and applications.

From the Back Cover:

There are few aspects of the physical environment that influence our daily lives more than the phenomena we collectively call weather. Newspapers, magazines, and television stations regularly report a wide range of weather events as major news stories—an obvious reflection of people's fascination with the atmosphere. Humanity must also address important environmental problems related to the atmosphere. A basic meteorology course provides a foundation to satisfy our fundamental human curiosity about weather, and to understand the many environmental problems related to the atmosphere.

The Atmosphere, 9/e meets the needs of beginning atmospheric-science students by providing a readable and user-friendly package of text and software. Together, these components provide a highly usable "tool" for learning basic meteorological principles and concepts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0131015672
• ISBN 13: 9780131015678
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 450