climatology

Provides an introduction to weather, discussing the impact of weather on everyday life, global climate change, and storms, answering both traditional and modern-day questions about the topic, and including photographs and diagrams, fact and history boxes, and related activities.

An introduction to weather and climate, discussing world climates, seasons, violent weather, weather pollution, and the elements of changing weather. Includes instructions for making a weather station.

Introduces the difference between climate and weather and the scientists that study each field, and discusses how clouds can help meteorologists predict the weather and some of the various types of extreme weather.

More than half of Earth's plant and animal species live in rainforests. This book explores the plants, animals, and environment of this important ecosystem. Learn more interesting information in Rainforests, an AV2 media enhanced book.

Explores different aspects of weather including what causes different types of precipitation, how landforms affect weather, and why there is more daylight in the summer.

A survey of weather and weather-related topics, providing information about basic atmospheric processes, storms and other weather phenomena, and forecasting and climate.

Jaden's summer visit with her meteorologist father, who has just returned from spending four years in Russia conducting weather experiments not permitted in the United States, fills her with apprehension and fear as she discovers that living at her father's planned community Placid Meadows is anything but placid.

A profile of the habitat and life cycle of the polar bear covers the species' venerated position in Inuit culture, its reproductive habits, and the environmental factors that are compromising its ability to survive.

An overview of climate change that discusses the causes of global warming, melting ice, the greenhouse effect, rising sea levels, record temperatures, the increase in hurricanes and greenhouse gases, and cutting greenhouse emissions.