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RE: Climate & Weather - Volume 115

John Beal — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 16:49:50 GMT

Reviews like this are very useful and most welcome.

John B

RE: Climate & Weather - Volume 115

S.W.Mott — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:54:55 GMT

Climate and Weather - I did just the same - looked up various years from my childhood and reminisced. But... is this what the NN series is supposed to be about? I am slightly disappointed with [b]Climate and Weather[/b]. I had hoped for more in depth analysis of what happens season to season and looking at trends. It is summarised far too much, I think. It would have been useful to have some sectional diagrams through a cold front, warm front and especially a back-bent occlusion. What does [i]that[/i] look like in a section? How do the air masses relate spatially? While it is fascinating to see synoptic charts of the weather the Spanish Armada faced, why is the most recent 20th C synoptic chart used that of January 1953? What about June 1976 - the year of the long drought, or October 1987, the year of the worst gales?

Chapter 9 and the whole of Part 2 could have been conflated and reduced and allowed space for looking in greater detail at human impact on the climate and weather. The Editors' preface remarks that "..reflects circumstances that will have affected our fauna and flora in times past". What would be nice to know is [i]how[/i] these climatic and weather circumstances affected our flora and fauna and what the current trends in our climate might imply for our natural history. An opportunity missed. I don't have access to the learned journals which might contain this stuff, (I'm a geologist by training) so a digest of it would have been welcome.
Sadly, the book comes over as a rather hurried compilation of detail. I suppose that is a useful thing to have, but has the book done enough to "present results of modern scientific research"?(Collins NN aim for the series.) I leave it to others to put a differing view forward on that and the other points I have raised.

RE: Climate & Weather - Volume 115

Lee3764 — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:43:31 GMT

Climate & Weather N/N 115 duly arrived today (3rd September) & looks lovely with it's stunning Dustjacket! It comments on most years weather for the past 2000 years since 1AD. Great to reminisce on the top year of my childhood of 1976.

Anyone else received their copy yet?

Cheers,

Lee (Cornwall).

RE: Climate & Weather - Volume 115

Lee3764 — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:28:58 GMT

Thanks for the prompt SGES. I will look at it on Amazon tonight! Just the sort of info that we should all be sharing!

Cheers,

Lee.

Climate & Weather - Volume 115

SGES — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:39:12 GMT

Amazon are now showing the cover for Climate & Weather by John Kington. Should be a good book to end 2010 on a high! Likely to be released on 2 September 2010...