Oliver Perkins

Reeds Cloud Handbook

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reeds Cloud Handbook is a quick-access, easy-to-use guide to identifying cloud types and how to predict what each cloud type can tell us about the weather and predict how it will change. This concise pocket reference will appeal to those who spend time outdoors and wants to better understand the weather, with its principal focus for sailors and also anyone going walking, fishing, cycling etc. This portable handbook will give you the essential information about common and unusual cloud types, how they form and what weather patterns are associated with them. Fully illustrated with colour photography and clear diagrams, this cloud identification guide includes sections on different weather patterns and how clouds form, different clouds according to where they appear in the sky, related features and different forms of fog. Each entry gives guidance on how and when to spot different cloud types and effects, and how the clouds relate to wind and rain patterns.

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Produktdetails

• Reeds Handbooks
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 103mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 128g
• ISBN-13: 9781472982070
• ISBN-10: 147298207X
• Artikelnr.: 62212490

Autorenporträt

Oliver Perkins

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the weather How to use this book A brief introduction to
the clouds Deciphering cloud names A bit of history Weather systems Air
masses Depressions Anticyclones High clouds Cirrus Thick cirrus (cirrus
spissatus) Cirrostratus Cirrocumulus Contrails (cirrus homogenitus) Middle
clouds Altocumulus floccus Altocumulus castellanus Altocumulus sheets
(altocumulus stratiformis) Altocumulus lenticularis Thin altostratus
(altostratus translucidus) Thick altostratus (altostratus opacus) Lower
clouds Cumulus Cumulus fractus Fair weather cumulus (cumulus humilis)
Towering cumulus (cumulus congestus) Cumulus cloud streets (cumulus
radiatus) Featureless stratus (stratus nebulosus) Broken stratus (stratus
fractus) Stratocumulus Stratocumulus stratiformis Stratocumulus castellanus
Nimbostratus Cumulonimbus calvus Cumulonimbus capillatus Thunderstorms
Supplementary features and accessory clouds Supplementary features
Asperitas Mamma Fall streaks (virga) Anvil (incus) Funnel cloud (tuba)
Shelf and roll clouds (arcus) Kelvin-Helmholtz waves (fluctus) Accessory
clouds Cap clouds (pileus) Pannus Velum Fog Sea fog (advection fog) Land
fog (radiation fog) Upslope fog Frontal fog Sea smoke Clouds outside the
troposphere Nacreous (mother of pearl) Noctilucent Optical phenomena
Rainbow Corona Halo Mock sun/sun dog/parhelion Iridescence Ice rainbow
(circumzenithal arc) Sunbeams and crepuscular rays Glory Cloud weather lore
Glossary Quick cloud identifier Index