Product Description

This total learning package for the introductory meteorology course includes much more than a text--the book is packaged with the exciting Blue Skies CD-ROM and four months' free access to InfoTrac® College Edition, an online university library. At the core of this learning package is Ahrens' respected text, which presents the fundamental concepts of meteorology in the context of everyday weather observations. Fun and easy to understand and relate to, the book and its cumulative organization enables students to build on each concept and gain greater understanding into the dynamic nature of the atmosphere.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1141609 in Books
• Published on: 2001-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 464 pages

Customer Reviews

USA-Centric Presentation, Weather Nowhere Else ?
I take introductory course Texas University Austin and this book used. Its good presentation in chapter the first about Global Warming caused by greenhouse gasses emmitted in US by engines of cars, and destruction of atmosphere by capitalists and greed. But, however, allmost all maps in this book of USA, as if only nation in world ever to experience any sort of weather is USA. My own home nation has weather too but is not mentioned, only maps of USA. Turducken weather hot and dry, mostly consistent, but showing weather maps of other countries beside USA would be less unilateral, since weather happens all over the world and not just in the USA. The part about Hurricanes Typhoons and Cyclones is good, I never knew before the difference between those. THe movie film Twister with Helen Hunt is good supplement materials for the chapiter about tornados, and supplemental CDROM it is useful too for supplemental materials.