Meteorology Today

Nicely written and presented, colorful diagrams, lots of technical information. However, I also have the 2003 7th edition and it has several detailed and interesting Appendices that are removed from this current version: Beaufort Wind Scales; Humidity and Dew-Point Tables (Psychromatic Tables); Weather Forecast Chart; Changing GMT and UTC to Local Time; Standard Atmosphere (detailed temp and pressure conditions by altitude); Hurricane-Tracking Chart; a larger Adiabatic Chart than the one found in the text of the recent edition; Koppen's Climatic Classification System; I don't know how many of these deletions are at the direction of the authors vs. the publisher, but for a text/reference book that cost as much as this one does, there is no excuse for removing this material from a leading textbook, in my opinion. I'd give 3 stars except for the excellently written and presented chapters.

Some of the information is out of date (for example, 2009 research indicated that tornadoes in supercells need downdrafts to form, which it did not state as the case). Also, some diagrams could use some tweaking, according to my professor of intro to meteorology.

Textbook was nice value and service through Amazon was great. Ended up not needing it that much for class, but the "buy back" program through Amazon is great and easy.

Good textbook. Helped convey the teachers lessons and provided great insight into real world scenarios. If you want to use diagrams from your book for studying and personal notes, then I highly suggest the loose leaf model.

good

required for a college class

The Kindle edition only works on my PC and tablet. I cannot get it to download to my Kindle Oasis which has ample open space for it. On the two devices it does work on, there are tons of missing letters. So a sentence could look like: "Radi tion fog fo ms by con uction." It's really annoying to have spent nearly $100 on a book that doesn't work seamlessly.

Good book, very detailed!

Sin duda es un excelente libro de texto introductorio de Meteorología pero con un nivel matemático tan bajo que sólo lo recomendaría para estudiantes de Geografía, Ciencias Medioambientales, Geología o similares. Un estudiante de Ciencias Fisicas, por ejemplo, encontrará en él un número totalmente insuficiente de ecuaciones como para poder utilizarlo como apoyo de un curso de Meteorología o Física de la atmósfera. Por la misma razón, pueden sacar provecho de él estudiantes de secundaria/bachillerato, además de poder utilizarse como libro de divulgación científica por cualquiera, con o sin conocimientos matemáticos y físicos, pues, como digo, las ecuaciones son muy escasas, mientras que las explicaciones, dibujos, fotografías, tablas, mapas meteorológicos -de Norteamérica-, etc. son muy buenos. A todo ello hay que añadir que los autores tienen formación y experiencia sobradas como para no temer encontrarte errores o imprecisiones, que sí hay en otros libros, incluso de texto, de un nivel matemático bajo.

El mejor libro de meteorología que conozco. Los conceptos están claramente explicados y la progresión de los capítulos facilita totalmente su compresión. Ideal para aficionados a la meteorología o para aquellos que deban saber del tema por su profesión, como pilotos de avión.

Excellent textbook, very interesting. It is easy to understand and great figures and images to help readers understand.

everything was ok