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The Met Office Cloud Book - Updated Edition

How to Understand the Skies
By Richard Hamblyn and The Met The Met Office
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The Met Office Cloud Book - Updated Edition offers an accessible and informative guide to understanding the various types of clouds. Authored by Richard Hamblyn in collaboration with The Met Office, this edition provides updated insights into cloud formation, weather patterns, and atmospheric phenomena.
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An updated edition of The Cloud Book, featuring 12 new recognised cloud forms. This guide to the clouds helps you identify cloud types and understand their implications for the weather. It follows a logical progression from low clouds to high stratus clouds, and on to special clouds, with a foreword from the Met Office's chief meteorologist.

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Met Office Cloud Book - Updated Edition

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ISBN: 9781446308905

Publisher: David & Charles

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 October 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: David & Charles

Illustration: 155 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 169.0mm

Height: 262.0mm

Weight: 534g

Pages: 176

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Richard Hamblyn Science & Nature The Met The Met Office

About the Author

Dr Richard Hamblyn is the author of The Invention of Clouds (2002), which won the LA Times Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. He is also the author of The Cloud Book (2008), Extraordinary Clouds (2009) and Extraordinary Weather (2012). He is currently Writer in Residence at the Environment Institute, University College London.

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