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4) Clouds
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Illustrations and simple text explain three types of clouds, stratus, cumulus, and cirrus.
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A kira Kumo, miraculous survivor of Hiroshima, reinvented himself as someone twenty years younger. Now an eccentric couturier and collector of all literature having to do with clouds and meteorology, he hires Virginie, a young librarian, to catalog his library. While she works, he tells her stories of those who have devoted their lives to clouds: the Quaker Luke Howard, contemporary of Napoleon and Goethe, who first classified clouds; the painter...
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Flying coast to coast across the U.S. aboard one of the world's largest airships, a team of scientists undertakes a series of exciting experiments shedding light on the causes of wild weather, how life exploits the atmosphere, and the human impact upon the weather. The team begins their voyage with an exploration of clouds. Expedition leader and meteorologist Felicity Aston examines how clouds capture liquid water and tries to weigh a cloud in an...
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A team of scientists, pilots and skydivers travel across North America in a giant airship - the Cloud Lab - to find out more about the earth's atmosphere, one of the least understood parts of our planet. On their journey over the swamps of Florida, the Gulf Coast, the vast deserts of Arizona and the spectacular Californian coast, they encounter some of the most spectacular atmospheric conditions on earth. It's vital work - a better understanding of...
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The atmosphere is critical to climate change. It can amplify shifts in the climate system, and also mitigate them. This primer offers an introduction to these atmospheric processes and how they work, written by a leading expert on the subject. In an overview of key atmospheric processes, the author looks at how our climate system receives energy from the sun and sheds it by emitting infrared radiation back into space. The atmosphere regulates these...
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The early years of the nineteenth century saw an intriguing yet little-known scientific advance catapult a shy young Quaker to the dizzy heights of fame. THE INVENTION OF CLOUDS tells the extraordinary story of an amateur meteorologist, Luke Howard, and his groundbreaking work to define what had hitherto been random and unknowable structures--clouds.
13) Sector 7
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While on a school trip to the Empire State Building, a boy is taken by a friendly cloud to visit Sector 7, where he discovers how clouds are shaped and channeled throughout the country.
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