National Audubon Society Field Guide to Weather: North America

ISBN-13:	9780679408512
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/15/1991
Series:	National Audubon Society Field Guides
Pages:	640
Sales rank:	108,963
Product dimensions:	4.30(w) x 7.72(h) x 0.99(d)
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

Incredibly comprehensive yet portable enough for your day pack, the definitive field guide to every type of weather system, cloud formation, and atmospheric phenomenon common to North America—from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers. The 378 dramatic photographs in National Audubon Society Field Guide to Weather capture cloud types, precipitation, storms, twisters, and optical phenomena such as the Northern Lights. Essays with accompanying maps and illustrations discuss the earth's atmosphere, weather systems, cloud formation, and development of tornadoes and many other weather events.