Sunday, May 12, 2013

Meteorology Today by C. Donald Ahrens



Meteorology Today: An Introduction to Weather, Climate, and the Environment (with 1pass for MeteorologyNOW) by C. Donald Ahrens (Author). METEOROLOGY TODAY has for a few years been one of the crucial widely used and authoritative texts for the introductory meteorology course. This eighth edition sees enhancements in flexibility for instructors and strengthened studying options for students. Writer C. Donald Ahrens has been widely praised for his ability to clarify comparatively sophisticated ideas in order that even under-ready college students can understand them.

The text’s clear and alluring narrative is supplemented by numerous pedagogical options that assist augment college students’ understanding. Introductory stories discovered firstly of every chapter draw college students naturally into the discussion. In-chapter critiques help college students master ideas whereas they examine, and 4 varieties of end-of-chapter exercises present alternatives for the whole lot of additional review to in-class discussion questions.

Along with these in-textual content studying aids, the eighth edition sees a whole integration with CengageNOW, the first evaluation-driven and pupil-centered on-line studying solution created particularly for this course. CengageNOW makes use of a series of chapter-specific diagnostic exams to construct a customized learning plan for each scholar, allowing students to focus their study time on particular areas of weaknesses. Every personalized study plan directs students to specific chapter sections and idea-driven multimedia tutorials designed to enhance their understanding. The brand new version is available in its unique nineteen chapter “basic” version, or as a “core” model, which features solely the most well-liked sixteen chapters.


The “core” version sacrifices not one of the detail that the course wants, however eliminates chapters that might not be immediately lined in class. Looking for extra flexibility? With the Cengage Studying TextChoice custom solution program, instructors can choose and reorganize chapters to completely match their syllabus, thereby creating the ideal textual content solution for the course.

This can be a nice starter ebook for fundamental meteorology. It has glorious descriptions of basic terms and great photography to again it up.

If you want to study more about weather and doing it alone. It is a nice e book to start out with.

Meteorology Today: An Introduction to Weather, Climate, and the Environment 
(with 1pass for MeteorologyNOW)
C. Donald Ahrens (Author)
608 pages
Brooks Cole; 8 edition (February 16, 2006)

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