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Understanding Weather and Climate, 5/E
Edward Aguado, San Diego State University
James E. Burt, University of Wisconsin - Madison

ISBN-10: 0321595505
ISBN-13: 9780321595508

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2010
Format: Paper; 608 pp
Published: 02/13/2009
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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.

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Integrated dynamic instructional technology sets this book apart by guiding students through narrated animations, videos, and assessment opportunities.
A highly current, graphic-rich treatment of basic weather and climate principles engages students in the process of atmospheric science.
The Companion Website takes information delivery to new extremes, now featuring an eBook with student tutorials, and weather in motion videos embedded to join the text and media.

A narrator guides students through 14 interactive tutorials that help students visualize atmospheric processes with a high degree of interactivity and quizzing.

Tutorial quizzes now report to a grade tracker so instructors can easily evaluate student progress.
Three new animated tutorials:

Global Warming takes students through the processes involved including the physical mechanism of greenhouse warming and both positive and negative feedback processes. Also includes 158 years of data and the spatial pattern of global temperature changes with a slider that students can move along that allows students to look at the data in various contexts.
Atmospheric Moisture tutorial takes students through the concept of saturation and the equilibrium between condensation and evaporation. Visualizations help students grasp the concept of saturation and cloud formations.
Global Energy Budget how does planetary travel throughout the earth atmosphere system.

Weather in Motion videos and satellite loops show how meteorological phenomena develop generate a better understanding of weather maps.
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ENHANCED MULTIMEDIA INTEGRATION

The Companion Website takes information delivery to new extremes, now featuring an eBook with student tutorials, and weather in motion videos embedded to join the text and media.

A narrator guides students through 14 interactive tutorials that help students visualize atmospheric processes with a high degree of interactivity and quizzing.
Tutorial quizzes now report to a grade tracker so instructors can easily evaluate student progress.
Three new animated tutorials:
Weather in Motion videos and satellite loops show how meteorological phenomena develop generate a better understanding of weather maps.
Access codes are bound into new copies of the textbook, or may be purchased stand-alone at www.mygeoscienceplace.com.

CURRENT CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE IN THE TEXTBOOK

Climate change science is updated and folded into atmospheric science coverage throughout the new edition to provide a report of scientific consensus and currency. This includes the findings presented in the fourth assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as well as how the members of the panel reached their conclusions.

Chapter 3, Energy Balance and Temperature, features a new section on Observed and Predicted Warming, including recent observations in changes and extreme temperatures, projection models, and the role of human activity.
Chapter 5, Atmospheric Moisture, now examines saturation more closely as it water in the atmosphere interacts with global systems.
Chapter 10, Midlatitude Cyclones, pays greater attention to the IPCC’s findings with regard to warming’s impact on storm frequency.
Extensively updated, Chapter 16, Climate Changes: Past and Future, covers the history of climate change, current observations, and what atmospheric researchers tell us to expect. A section on human impact is expanded to tell more about the ways that global warming has manifested itself and how the scientific community came to its conclusions.

EXPANDED PEDAGOGICAL TREATMENT

An increased number of climate maps offer more current examples that help students learn from recent meteorological examples. See, Figure 4.19 and Box 9-3.
Better connections to the online media within the text tell students what they will learn by going to a particular section of the Companion Website.
Chapters open with updated reports that tell students about real events and prepare them for the science behind the atmospheric activity. For instance, Chapter 7 now opens with a comparison of the floods of 2008 and 1993.
A new pull-out cloud chart offers students a quick reference to cloud types and what they portend.

Table of Contents

I. ENERGY AND MASS.
1. Composition and Structure of the Atmosphere.
2. Solar Radiation and the Seasons.
3. Energy Balance and Temperature.
4. Atmospheric Pressure and Wind.

II. WATER IN THE ATMOSPHERE.
5. Atmospheric Moisture.
6. Cloud Development and Forms.
7. Precipitation Processes.

III. DISTRIBUTION AND MOVEMENT OF AIR.
8. Atmospheric Circulation and Pressure Distributions.
9. Air Masses and Fronts.

IV. DISTURBANCES.
10. Mid-Latitude Cyclones.
11. Lightning, Thunder, and Tornadoes.
12. Tropical Storms and Hurricanes.

V. HUMAN ACTIVITIES AND SPECIAL TOPICS.
13. Weather Forecasting and Analysis.
14. Human Effects: Air Pollution and Heat Islands.

VI. CURRENT, PAST AND FUTURE CLIMATES.
15. Earth's Climates.
16. Climate Changes: Past and Future.

VII. SPECIAL TOPICS AND APPENDICES.
17. Atmospheric Optics.

Appendix A: Unit of Measurement and Conversions.
Appendix B: The Standard Atmosphere.
Appendix C: Weather Map Symbols.
Appendix D: Weather Extremes.
Glossary.
Index.

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Introductory Meteorology (Geography & Atmospheric Sciences)
Meteorology (Geology & Oceanography)
Introductory Meteorology Lab (Geography & Atmospheric Sciences)
Introduction to Weather and Climate (Geography & Atmospheric Sciences)

Previous Edition(s)

Understanding Weather and Climate, 4/E
Aguado & Burt
©2007 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 588 pp | Out of Print
ISBN-10: 0131496964 | ISBN-13: 9780131496965
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Integrating the classic textbook model with emerging areas of instructional technology, this book focuses on explaining, rather than describing, the processes that produce Earth's weather and climate. The authors encourage a non-mathematical understanding of physical principles as a vehicle for learning about atmospheric processes.

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Understanding Weather & Climate, 6/E
Aguado & Burt
©2013 | Prentice Hall | Paper; 576 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0321769635 | ISBN-13: 9780321769633
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Rising interest in climate change and severe weather phenomena are driving up enrollment in today’s meteorology courses — yet this fast-paced, one-semester curriculum is packed with complex physical concepts that often challenge students. In Aguado/Burt’s Understanding Weather & Climate, a first-rate textbook combines inspired technology tutorials to engage students in learning about atmospheric behavior. The authors use everyday occurrences to illustrate meteorology and climatology. Dynamic illustrations from the book come to life in the new, fully integrated MyMeteorologyLab website, where students have access to resources such animated tutorials, videos, and satellite loops of atmospheric phenomena. While staying true to the text’s rigorous and quantitative approach, the Sixth Edition incorporates the latest science, the most relevant issues, and new media to both teach and visualize the toughest topics, always while maintaining focus on the student.

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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.

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