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by Vincent J. Schaefer

Author:

Vincent J. Schaefer

ISBN13:

978-0395240809

ISBN:

0395240808

Language:

English

Publisher:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Revised edition (March 1, 1981)

Category:

Science

Subcategory:

Earth Sciences

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The Peterson Field Guides (PFG) are a popular and influential series of American field guides intended to assist the layman in identification of birds, plants, insects and other natural phenomena.

The Peterson Field Guides (PFG) are a popular and influential series of American field guides intended to assist the layman in identification of birds, plants, insects and other natural phenomena. His inaugural volume was the classic 1934 book A Field Guide to the Birds, published (as were all subsequent volumes) by the Houghton Mifflin Company.

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The Peterson Field Guides (PFG) are a popular and influential series of American field guides intended to. .His inaugural volume was the classic 1934 book "A Field Guide to the Birds", published (as were all subsequent volumes) by the Houghton Mifflin Company. The PFG series utilized what became known as the Peterson Identification System, a practical method for field identification which highlights readily noticed visual features rather than focusing on the technical features of interest to scientists.

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Book in the Peterson Field Guides Series). by Vincent J. Schaefer. Select Format: Hardcover. A Field Guide to Western Birds: Field Marks of All Species Found in North America West of the 100th Meridian and North of Mexico (Peterson Field Guides(R)). A Field Guide to Shells of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies. Percy A. Morris, R. Tucker Abbott.

Photographs show phenomena of the atmosphere, describing types of atmospheric particles, rainbows, clouds, and precipitation

Wetiwavas

This book should not be confused with other "cloud spotting" books. It isn't about "garden-variety" storms either. Rather, it is a palatable introduction to the atmospheric sciences aimed at naturalists and educators. While the authors occasionally struggle with maintaining the flow and organization of the book in delivering some very complex topics, they manage to keep the material interesting and enjoyable to read. Someone completely uninitiated with the atmosphere will come away from this book with a greater appreciation of everyday weather through an understanding of the localized chemical processes that produce it. A Neat Book!

Ceck

It was alright!

Thoginn

The text is well written, concise and easy to use on site-i.e. outside. Nice size. Good images which helps with ID

Erienan

Whew. A textbook, heavy on teaching, but short on the field guide part. Yes, there are lots of examples of clouds, but it is really hard to correlate the pics with useful information. I am a complete novice. After the book, I am a confused novice. Lots of words and lots of pics. Heavy on info. Not a field guide in my eye. --great service, great condition, well worth the price I paid.

Mushicage

Too technical, reminded me of a college text

Nightscar

This is a useful weather field guide because it spends most time illustrating regular weather phenomena. By that, I mean it spends most time on the various types of clouds, "garden-variety" thunderstorms, and ordinary optical phenomena like rainbows, irridescence, halo(e)s, and the like - the kind of stuff you're most likely to see if you glance out your bedroom window of a morning, or . . . whatever. (It's hard not to sound corny there!)Also, the text goes into how such phenomena comes about, which is useful.
There are also useful appendices like the Beaufort scale, and tornado safety rules in the back.
The only drawbacks are, the fact that this isn't a full-color guide: the color plates have been segregated to an insert around the middle of the book, which makes up perhaps an eighth of the book - if that (all other photos - the majority of the book - are in much less detailed and descriptive black and white); also, the illustration of severe weather is rather limited. We don't see features of a severe thunderstorm, or satellite images of a hurricane at its various stages of intensity (or an illustrated discussion of satellite pictures in general - this guide may be from 1981, but satellites existed then!), or the forms a tornado can take, or where one can form - we only have photos of distant, non-severe looking cumulonimbus (thunderstorm) clouds, a view of clouds around a hurricane taken from a plane (which isn't the perspective either a satellite or someone on the groud is going to have), and one photo of a tornado chosen for its historical merit only (it being the "first photo taken of a tornado," near Howard, SD on 8/28/1884 - an older photo, taken near either Garnett or Westphalia, KS on 4/26/1884, has since been found). [Regarding the thunderstorm/tornado images, I realize this isn't supposed to be a NOAA spotter's guide, therefore gospel, but a variety of images helps.]
But if a lack of color doesn't bother you, and you know your severe storms (or they don't bother you, either), this is a good field guide to have.

Inabel

we get many interesting clouds over the nearby mountains and needed a book to help us identify them and learn how they are formed. this book helped greatly and we are still working on it.

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