50 Ways to Improve Your Weather Forecasting - Dag Pike
50 Ways to Improve Your Weather Forecasting - Dag Pike
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50 sposobów, jak lepiej przewidywać pogodę i nie dać się jej zaskoczyć. Autor omawia sposoby interpretacji prognoz pogody, map pogodowych, warunków obserwowanych nad morzem. Uczy wyciągać wnioski, przewidywać zjawiska i odpowiednio chronić się przed nimi. Książka w języku angielskim.
 
Spis treści: WEATHER FORECASTS 1. When to go to sea 2. Negotiating with the weather 3. Weather in the fourth dimension 4. The limitations of forecasts 5. Questioning the forecast 6. Evolving weather 7. You get what you pay for 8. Weather from coast stations INTERPRETING THE FORECASTS 9. Recording the weather 10. Reading between the lines 11. The meaning of "later" 12. The speed of the weather 13. Pinning down the windstrength 14. The language of forecasters 15. Forecasting wave height FINE-TUNING THE FORECAST 16. Fine-tuning factors 17. Inconsistencies in the forecast 18. When the airflow is broken 19. When the wind is off the land 20. Winds around and over islands 21. Winds parallel to the shore 22. Sea breezes THE WIND AND THE SEA 23. The Beaufort scale 24. The effect of wind on the tides 25. Tides and waves 26. Wave refraction 27. Wave heights 28. The effect of depth on sea conditions 29. Identifying dangerous sea conditions 30. What makes a wave break 31. Fetch and time LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS 32. Radiation fog 33. Advection fog 34. When will the fog clear? 35. Drizzle 36. Gusts 37. Squalls 38. Thunderstorms 39. Avoiding thunderstorms 40. Line squalls and waterspouts 41. The message from the clouds 42. Clouds in a warm front TACTICS AND SHORT-TERM CHANGES 43. Deepening depressions 44. Secondary lows 45. Using satellite information 46. Running for shelter 47. Weather tactics 48. Coastal tactics 49. Weather routing 50. Weather lore
Oprawa miękka. 96 stron. Format:135x215mm. ISBN 978-0-7136-8268-7