Spanish Peaks Library District

For almost a century, W. A. Bentley caught and photographed thousands of snowflakes in his workshop at Jericho, Vermont, and made available to scientists and art instructors samples of his remarkable work. His painstakingly prepared images were remarkable revelations of nature's diversity in uniformity: no two snowflakes are exactly alike, but all are based on a common hexagon. In 1931, the American Meteorological Society gathered the best of Bentley's...

"As snowpocalypse descends once again, one temperamental weatherman is determined to set the record straight on the myths and misconceptions surrounding the elements. What is the difference between weather and climate? How do weather satellites predict the future? Can someone outrun a tornado? Does the rotation of the Earth affect wind currents? And does meteorology have anything to do with meteors? Stormin Norman Weatherby is gearing up to answer...

Publisher's description: Climate change is now doing far more harm than marooning polar bears on melting chunks of ice--it is damaging the health of people around the world. Brilliantly connecting stories of real people with cutting-edge scientific and medical information, Changing Planet, Changing Health brings us to places like Mozambique, Honduras, and the United States for an eye-opening on-the-ground investigation of how climate change is altering...

Andrew Revkin, who is the senior climate reporter at ProPublica after a prize-winning 21-year stint at The New York Times, presents an intriguing illustrated history of humanity's evolving relationship with Earth's dynamic climate system and the wondrous weather it generates.-- Colorful and captivating, Weather: An Illustrated History hopscotches through 100 meteorological milestones and insights, from prehistory to today's headlines and tomorrow's...

An analysis is carried out which considers the relationship of orbit mechanics to the satellite navigation problem, in particular, meteorological satellites.

There is a complex interaction between the formation of the high tropospheric Tibetan anticyclone and the development of the Indian Monsoon.

Visible and infrared image data from the scanning radiometer on the NOAA-2 and NOAA-3 satellites are received by a VHF "APT" Station at Colorado State University. In addition to producing the regular hard-copy photographs, the taped signal is specially processed by electronic means, converted from analog to digital form and further processed in the computer. Details of the processing steps and equipment will be described and the meteorological application...