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Understanding Weather and Climate (4th Edition)

The fourth edition of Understanding Weather and Climate has been thoroughly updated throughout.

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Every part of the text has been examined and updated to ensure currency and clarity.Integrating the classic textbook model with emerging areas of instructional technology, this book focuses on explaining, rather than describing, the processes that produce Earth's weather and climate.

The authors encourage a non-mathematical understanding of physical principles as a vehicle for learning about atmospheric processes..

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Authors: Edward Aguado, James Burt

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Date: May. 3, 2006

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