Ebook: Meteorology today: an introduction to weather, climate, and the environment

Introduction -- Earth and its atmosphere -- Energy -- Temperature -- Humidity -- Condensation: dew, fog, and clouds -- Stability and cloud development -- Precipitation -- Air pressure and winds -- Wind: small scale and local -- Wind: global systems -- Air masses and fronts -- Middle-latitude cyclones -- Thunderstorms and tornadoes -- Hurricanes -- Weather forecasting -- Global climate -- Earth's changing climate -- Air pollution -- Light, colour, and atmospheric optics -- Appendix A. Units, conversions, symbols, and equations -- Appendix B. Weather symbols and cloud classification -- Appendix C. Beaufort Wind Scale -- Appendix D. Humidity and standard atmosphere -- Appendix E. Time zone conversions -- Appendix F. Global precipitation -- Appendix G. Tephigram -- Glossary -- Index.