Scientific Classification Manual -- Weather and Climate

Author: (American) Arabe, translated by Zhang Chunxi
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Features: With the advancement of technology, it has become increasingly difficult for students and teachers to obtain direct and rapid answers to fundamental scientific and weather/climate questions. Therefore, they will welcome the "Science Classification Handbook: Ocean Science" by U.S. FactsOnFile Publishing. The "Science Classification Handbook" series covers the following disciplines: weather/climate, biology, chemistry, earth science, ocean science, physics, space and astronomy, algebra, calculus, and geometry. It is an invaluable bilingual dictionary series organized by systematic subject classification. The "Science Classification Handbook: Weather/Climate" by U.S. FactsOnFile Publishing includes the following sections:
Terminology: The book contains over 2,200 entries, with many entries accompanied by simple diagrams to help explain the meanings of the terms. Topics include: atmosphere, ways of atmospheric movement, wind chill, rain showers, temperature variations, temperature increases and decreases.
People: It introduces more than 100 scientists and weather/climate experts from ancient times to the present, whose discoveries have advanced human understanding and comprehension of weather and climate. These scientists include Aristotle, Andrew Sielis, Galileo, Galle, Jonas Plücker, Blaise Pascal, John Tenner, and Martin von Lüneburg.
Chronology: It spans over 2,000 years of the history of weather and climate science, including important events in the field: Galileo invents the air thermometer (1593); Daniel Fahrenheit invents the mercury thermometer (1752); Matthew Maury discovers the shape of storms (1842); radar is first used to obtain meteorological data (1949).