Scientific Classification Manual. Weather and Climate (English-Chinese Contrast)

Author: (USA) Arabe
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: The "Handbook of Scientific Classification: Weather and Climate" by the U.S. FactsOnFile Publishing Company includes the following sections: The book contains over 2,200 entries, many of which are accompanied by simple diagrams to help explain the meaning of the terms. Topics include: atmosphere, ways of atmospheric movement, wind chill, rain showers, temperature variations, and increases and decreases in temperature.
People introduces more than 100 scientists and weather and 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 covers the development of weather and climate science over more than 2,000 years, including important events in the field of weather and climate science; Galileo invents the air thermometer (1593); Daniel Fahrenheit invents the mercury thermometer (1752); Matthew Maury discovers the shape of storms (1842); radar is used to obtain meteorological data (1949).