The Australian Weather Book: Third Edition: Understanding Our Climate and How it Affects Us
Author(s): Dick Whitaker
Australia has a unique climate and recent natural disasters and climate change debates have made meteorology and the weather heated topics of debate. This book is a colourful overview of Australia's climate and weather, written in an easily accessible way. It provides plenty of information on the following topics: How the weather affects us personally and in our day-to-day living; An explanation of Australia's climate - rainfall, temperature, drought, flood, El Nino, the Southern Oscillation Index and weather extremes; Climatic change and the effect of human activity on climate including the greenhouse effect and ozone depletion; How and why the atmosphere works - details of wind circulations including the southerly buster and Spillane eddy; Clouds - how they form and the different types; Instruments used to measure weather phenomena - from barometers and thermometers to radar and Automatic Weather Stations; Well-known environmental disasters - Cyclone Tracy, the Ash Wednesday and Black Saturday bushfires, the Brisbane floods of 1974 and the Toowoomba floods of 2011.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : New Holland Publishers
- : New Holland Publishers
- : 31 December 2011
- : 230mm X 170mm
- : Australia
- : 01 February 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : Dick Whitaker
- : Paperback
- : 3rd edition
- : 152
- : illustrations