Visualizing Weather and Climate: 17 (Visualizing Series) - Tapa blanda

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Visualizing Weather and Climate Change will capture the reader's interest in weather and climate and then use that interest to engage them in activities that demonstrate the science that serves as the basis of the discipline. Sections such as Eye on the Atmosphere use beautiful imagery to help them see the atmosphere through the eyes of a meteorologist and ask scientific questions that place significant features in atmospheric context. It also includes expanded coverage of global change and recent phenomena. Chapter summaries, self-tests and critical thinking questions help prepare readers for quizzes and tests while the illustrated case studies offer a wide variety of in-depth examinations that address important issues in the field of environmental science.

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Rainfall witin a Tropical Cyclone

This set of satellite images show two views of Hurricane Emily in the Gulf of Mexico on July 20, 2005.

In part A, we see a satellite image of clouds, with the storm's eye at the center.Although this image gives a sense of the scale of the hurricane, it does not identify where the winds are most intense or where rainfall is heaviest.

Part B is an image produced using a special radar aboard a satellite that maps water droplets, providing a three-dimensional image of the tropical cyclone. Note the very intense rainfall near the eye (represented by the red colors), as well as the local rainfall in the bands to the northwest and southeast of the eye.

CONCEPT CHECK STOP

What are the weather characteristics of an eargerly wave?

What are the characteristic features of tropical cyclones?

How do scientists measure pressure, winds, and precipitation within tropical cyclones?

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