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Author
Series
Publisher
Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
Solar and net radiation measurements made during the Venezuelan International Meteorological-Hydrological Experiment (VIM-HEX) conducted in Venezuela in the summer of 1969 are discussed.
Author
Series
Publisher
Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
The erosion and subsequent mixing to the environment of the updraft of mesoscale convective clouds is examined and modeled as a mechanism for the thermal modification of the cloud environment.
3) Snow Joe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Throw. Blow. Whoa! Joe does many things with snow.
11) Blizzards
Author
Series
Publisher
Facts on File
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Explains the science behind blizzards, discussing how, why, and where they occur, showing how they differ from ordinary snowstorms, and looking at some of the most significant blizzards of the past.
12) Hurricanes
Author
Series
Publisher
Facts On File
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Provides information about hurricanes, describing the conditions that lead to their formation, discussing what happens during the course of such storms, explaining how they are tracked and named, and looking at some historic hurricanes.
13) Tornadoes
Author
Series
Publisher
Facts On File
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Provides information about tornadoes, discussing the conditions that lead to their formation, looking at what happens during the course of the ferocious storms, and tracing the wreckage of some of the major twisters of the past.
Author
Series
Publisher
Facts On File
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Presents an overview of hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, blizzards, floods, and other types of dangerous weather; provides a time line of catastrophic weather events from c. 3200 B.C. to 1997; features a chronology of meteorological discovery; and includes weather experiments that may be performed at home.
15) Droughts
Author
Publisher
Facts On File
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Explains the science behind droughts, discussing how, why, and where they occur, describing how global climate change might affect the severity of droughts, and looking at serious droughts in the past.
16) Floods
Author
Publisher
Facts on File
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Explains the science behind floods, discussing how, why, and where they occur, considering the cost of floods, and looking at significant floods of the past.
17) Lightning
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Simple text and photographs explain what lightning is and how it forms.
18) Rain
Author
Series
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
19--]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book simply describes what rain is and the cycle that repeatedly brings water to the earth.
19) Sunshine
Author
Series
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
19--]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the effects of light from the sun on earth and how it causes temperature changes, the seasons, winds, and clouds.
20) Blizzards
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the winter storms that cover the earth with snow, including when and where they occur, the damage they can do, how they are predicted, and the dates of some of the worst blizzards in history.