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997077
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b751447
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Bolger, Annette.
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| Title & Author
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Science of weather and environment /\ Annette Bolger.
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| Publication Statement
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Jaipur :: Oxford Book Co,, 2010.
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1 online resource (310 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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1282810316
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: 144165139X
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: 9350430150
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: 9781282810310
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: 9781441651396
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: 9789350430156
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9789380179445
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| Contents
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Cover -- Preface -- Contents -- Composition of Atmosphere -- Troposphere and Stratosphere -- Water Vapour in Atmosphere -- Atmospheric Pressure -- Forms of Precipitation -- Weather Measurements -- Thunderstorms -- Lightning Hazards -- Tornadoes and Waterspouts -- Weather Forecasting -- Solar Flares and Earthly Storms -- Atmospheric Electricity -- Air Pollution and Meteorology -- Impact of Ozone Layer -- Reduction of Greenhouse Gases13; -- Index.
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Weather is a set of all the phenomena occurring in a given atmosphere at a given time. Weather Phenomena lie in the troposphere. Weather refers, generally, to day-to day temperature and precipitation activity. Whereas climate is the term for the average atmospheric conditions over longer periods of time. When used without qualification, weather"is understood to be the weather of earth. Environmental science has been introduced as a course work at the undergraduate level by all the universities of higher studies. This course material has prompted the editor to have an insight and deeper underst.
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Environmental sciences.
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Meteorology.
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Environmental sciences.
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Meteorology.
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SCIENCE-- Earth Sciences-- Meteorology Climatology.
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| Dewey Classification
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551.5
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QC861.3.B65 2010eb
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