The weather affects everyone on Earth, influencing both our day-to-day decisions and long term plans for leisure and work. But the Earth's weather systems are extremely complex, and conditions and events may have an effect 'half a world away'. Storm Dunlop explores the processes at work behind our daily weather.

• 1: Introduction


• 2: The atmosphere


• 3: The circulation of the atmosphere


• 4: Global weather systems


• 5: Water in the atmosphere


• 6: Weather systems


• 7: Severe and unusual weather events


• 8: Localized weather


• 9: Weather forecasting


• References


• Further Reading


• Index

Storm Dunlop is an experienced freelance writer in the field of meteorology, and has been published by Springer, OUP, CUP, and others. He compiled the Oxford Dictionary of Weather (OUP, 2008), which is now in its second edition, and among his many other published works are A Guide to Weather Forecasting (Philips, 2013). He has also lectured widely on the subject.