The Cloudspoter's Guide by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
The Cloudspotter’s Guide: The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds, by Gavin Pretor-Pinney, reviewed by Tom Birch, Zauel Library
(Perigree Books, 2006, 320 pages, $19.95)
Pretor-Pinney has a gift for engaging the lay reader with a subject that can be as simple or as complicated as one wants to make it.
We have all stared at clouds in wonder. Why are some white, like a ball of cotton, and others gray, or even black? Why do they take on the shapes that they do? How do they develop, grow, and then dissipate? What is the difference between a stratocumulus and a cumulonimbus cloud formation? Other considerations include lightning, cloud seeding, the many forms of precipitation, and the atmospheric effects of airplane contrails and distrails.
(Perigree Books, 2006, 320 pages, $19.95)
Pretor-Pinney has a gift for engaging the lay reader with a subject that can be as simple or as complicated as one wants to make it.
We have all stared at clouds in wonder. Why are some white, like a ball of cotton, and others gray, or even black? Why do they take on the shapes that they do? How do they develop, grow, and then dissipate? What is the difference between a stratocumulus and a cumulonimbus cloud formation? Other considerations include lightning, cloud seeding, the many forms of precipitation, and the atmospheric effects of airplane contrails and distrails.
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