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