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.

Simple text and illustrations introduce baby animals. Includes learning activities, parent tips, and word list.

Explores all of the climatic changes that signify the spring season around the world.

Explains the causes for the climatic changes of summer in different parts of the world, discusses global warming, and describes how to make a cloud diary.

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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.

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.

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.

This book simply describes what rain is and the cycle that repeatedly brings water to the earth.

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.