Weather

Cosgrove, Brian 1926- (Author).

Summary: Discover the world's weather--from heat waves and droughts to blizzards and floods. Includes discussion of why the climate may change in the future.

Record details

ISBN: 9780756630065 (hc.)
ISBN: 0756630061 (hc.)
ISBN: 9780756607371
ISBN: 075660737X
Physical Description: print
72 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 29 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: London ; New York : DK Publishing, 2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:

At head of title: Eyewitness.

Accompanying CD-ROM contains clip-art.

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Restless air -- Natural signs -- Science of weather -- Watching the weather -- Forecasting -- Power of the sun -- Sunny day -- Frost and ice -- Water in the air -- Birth of a cloud -- Cloudy day -- Clouds of all kinds -- Rainy day -- Fronts and lows -- Thunder and lightening -- Monsoon -- Snowy day -- Wind -- Tropical storms -- Whirling winds -- Fogs and mists -- Day of weather -- Mountain weather -- Weather on the plains -- Weather by the sea -- Colors in the sky -- Our changing weather -- Home weather station -- Did you know? -- Working with weather -- Extreme weather.