Meteorology today : an introduction to weather, climate, and the environment /

Ahrens, C. Donald

Meteorology today : an introduction to weather, climate, and the environment / C. Donald Ahrens - Third Edition - St. Paul, Minnesota : West Publishing Company, c1988 - xv, 581 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1. Introduction: earth and its atmosphere -- Chapter 2. The earth's atmosphere: origin, composition, and behavior -- Chapter 3. Energy: warming the earth and the atmosphere -- Chapter 4. The sun's influence on the upper atmosphere -- Chapter 5. Seasonal and daily temperature -- Chapter 6. Light, color, and atmospheric optics -- Chapter 7. Humidity -- Chapter 8. condensation.

This book is written for college-level students taking an introductory course on the atmospheric environment

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QC 861.2 .A37 1988