This book gives readers an accessible, systematic, non-mathematical, and visually appealing start in physical geography.

It features a distinctive, holistic integration of human-Earth relationships, an applied flavor, scientific correctness, and superior graphics (remote sensing images) and cartography.

A holistic, process approach is used to describe and discuss each physical system.

Highlights more than 200 URLs, and features an accompanying CD-ROM with more than 30 animations of key concepts in physical geography.

Solar Energy, Seasons, and the Atmosphere.

Atmospheric Energy and Global Temperatures.

Atmospheric and Oceanic Circulations.

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Author: Robert W. Christopherson

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Date: Mar. 2, 2006

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