Clouds (eBook)

How to Identify Nature’s Most Fleeting Forms

Edward Graham (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2025
225 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-26633-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A one-of-a-kind illustrated guide to clouds, cloud formations, and the artists who painted themThe mystery of clouds has captivated scientists and artists alike. This unique book shows you how to use the meteorological techniques of nephology to identify these elusive and transmutable shapes. It curates, classifies, and measures every speciesincluding those recently discoveredconsidering the height, size, texture, arrangement, modifications, and movement of their many shifting forms. Clouds blends a lively and engaging narrative by one of today's leading meteorologists with an essay on historic cloud art, and includes a wealth of breathtaking cloud studies by some of the greatest artists ever to look skyward.Presents a ';taxonomic' approach to identification, applying the basic laws of geometry to quantify and measure clouds and cloud formationsShowcases artists who painted clouds from a scientific viewpoint, such as John Constable, Frederic Edwin Church, J.M.W. Turner, and Caspar David FriedrichTells the stories of the physicists and painters who have attempted to record the many different incarnations of cloudsExplains the physics of clouds, from the basic constituents of Earth's atmosphere to cloud formation and dissipation, the colors and shades of clouds, the development of precipitation, and the timescale evolution of cloudsDiscusses the classification and naming of cloudsServes as a user-friendly reference guide to low, midlevel, and high cloud speciesIncludes charts, infographics, and a glossary of terms

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.4.2025
• Vorwort: Richard Hamblyn
• Zusatzinfo: 140 color illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Weltraum / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
• Schlagworte: atmospheric science • Cirrus • Cloud • cloud classification • cloud condensation nuclei • cloud droplet collision & coalescence. • cloud droplets • cloud dynamics • Cloud iridescence • cloud levels • cloud light & shadow • Cloud Physics • cloud radiation • clouds • Cumulonimbus • Cumulus • Hydrometeors • ice haloes • Lenticularis • Luke Howard • meteorology • mother clouds • new clouds • precipitation • storm clouds • Stratocumulus • Stratus • the atmosphere • The International Cloud Atlas • Tornadoes
• ISBN-10: 0-691-26633-6 / 0691266336
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-26633-6 / 9780691266336