Stormy Weather – Review
This is probably the most valuable book in my library. This is not a order of people’s theories about the climate, but an formally organized management of real studies of the climate itself. The book is easy to widely read and well written. It is written more like a journal article than a textbook with mountains of figures based on data, useful tables, and references to the technical literature. The book focuses on what is commonly observed: the mean nations of the atmosphere, ocean, and cryosphere; and on what can be easily calculated from observations: accounts of angular momentum, water, and energy. The book argues the relevant natural methods of radiation and surface/atmosphere exchange. You need this book if you are a working scientist with questions like: What is the commonly observed energy balance? How is water stored in numerous reservoirs in the climate system and what are the times of exchange? How much momentum is transported by stationary versus transient eddies? How is temperature or the circulation widely distributed horizontally and vertically in the atmosphere and ocean, and how does it vary seasonally? If you are interested in climate models, cloud physics, climate change, or paleoclimatology, then this is not the right book for you.

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