National Audubon Society Field Guide to Weather: North America

Incredibly comprehensive yet portable enough for your day pack, the definitive field guide to every type of weather system, cloud formation, and atmospheric phenomenon common to North America--from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers.

The 378 dramatic photographs in National Audubon Society Field Guide to Weather capture cloud types, precipitation, storms, twisters, and optical phenomena such as the Northern Lights. Essays with accompanying maps and illustrations discuss the earth's atmosphere, weather systems, cloud formation, and development of tornadoes and many other weather events.

Author: David Ludlum
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 10/15/1991
Pages: 640
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 7.61h x 4.11w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780679408512

About the Author
DAVID M. LUDLUM was a distinguished historian on American weather. He is the founder of the magazine Weatherwise. Born in East Orange, New Jersey in 1910, he studied at the University of California at Berkeley and Princeton Univeristy. He died in May 1997 at the age of eighty-six.