Understanding Weather and Climate: United States Edition - Softcover

Aguado, Edward; Burt, James E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321595505 ISBN 13: 9780321595508

Publisher: Pearson, 2009

Synopsis

For introductory courses in Meteorology and Weather & Climate.

A first-rate textbook and inspired technology tutorials work together to engage students in the process of learning about atmospheric behavior. The authors use everyday occurrences to illustrate meteorology and climatology. Dynamic illustrations from the book come to life in the fully integrated student website, where a narrator guides students through animated tutorials, video footage and satellite loops of atmospheric phenomena.

About this title

About the Author

Ed Aguado is a Professor of Geography at San Diego State University. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in 1983, and his research interests include Precipitation and Hydrology of Western U.S. Mountains. He is also involved in consulting and is an expert witness on climatology and weather.

Jim Burt is a Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He earned his Ph.D. in Geography from UCLA in 1980, and his research areas include Physical Geography, Climatology, Quantitative Methods, and Geovisualization. He is the Co-principal investigator for SoLIM (Soil Land Inference Model) for soil mapping based on recent developments in geographic information science (GISc), artificial intelligence (AI), and information representation theory.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0321595505
• ISBN 13: 9780321595508
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 608