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Consists of over 3500 photographs, diagrams, animations and videos selected and catalogued by the American Geological Institute to support standard [US] earth sciences texts and lecture subjects in physical...
Charts the new wave of experiments and investigations into the 1800 active thunderstorms that occur on earth at any one time. Looks at ball lightning, ribbon lightning and the strange red ‘sprites’ that...
A resource disc containing about 600 cloud motion image sequences from geo-stationary and polar-orbiting weather satellites recorded bytween 1967 and 1991 and the film CLOUD MOTION AND SCALES by Christian...
The concept stems from an idea of John Morgan, first director of Eumetsat, who, having seen a reproduction of the ship’s journal of Christopher Columbus, recognised the possibility of depicting through...
Looks at the attempt of an ageing propeller-driven plane to fly into the eye of the hurricane Gilbert on 6 September 1988. By accurately predicting Gilbert’s path, lives and property could be saved. This...
Looks at the causes and implications of global warming and climate change. Fox example, a minute rise in temperature within the Pacific basin can result in drought in Africa and flooding in Pakistan....
In late 1982 a surge of warm water swept across the surface of the Pacific depressing the nutrient rich upwelling water of Peru and causing the already over-fished anchovy fishery to collapse completely....
Francis Wilson of SKY News Weather discusses how the earth was created, the link between climate and life on earth, predicting the weather, jetstreams and how they affect the earth’s climate, the Gulf...
Concentrates more on aviation than meteorology discussing the hazardous low-level wind shears associated with downdraughts from severe convective storms (downbursts). Describes flying techniques which enable...
The term ‘greenhouse effect’ is becoming commonplace. It concerns the global problem of increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. This increase, it is predicted, will produce a warming of the...
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