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kcidwx:
--- Quote from: tweatherman on August 28, 2015, 06:00:28 PM ---kcidwx,
Just curious what happened with your heathkit idw5001 station?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6FVvHBBC04
tweatherman
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I still have the IDW-5001.
I once had all my meteorology textbooks from my undergraduate meteorology classes in college. I took a few graduate level classes as well. When I moved 6 years ago, I decided to donate them all to our local library. The only book I have now is The Weather Observers Handbook by Stephen Burt. Highly recommend if you are into weather instrumentation.
LFWX:
"Measuring the Natural Environment" second edition by Ian Strangeways (Published by Cambridge University Press, 2003 printing)
...and I intercepted this one on the way to the trash from the library at the school I work for (I haven't read it yet):
"The Way of the Weather" by Jerome Spar (Published by Creative Educational Society, 1961 printing)
WxFox:
The Complete Idiots Guide To Weather by Dr. Mel Goldstein. ISBN: 0-02-862709-1
Farmtalk:
If anyone likes older weather books , I bought a book on Amazon last year from the 1950s by a guy named Frank Forrester called "1001 Questions About the Weather". Pretty neat stuff!
sadivnik:
OK, I'm new here & I like books, so figured I'd see what's been posted on wx books - nothing in a long while; I hope people here haven't given up on the printed word!
And that long-dead threads can be revived!
Maybe others have favorite weather or climate books they like?
So here are a few of my favorite wx/climate books - I'm a geographer by education & took some meteorology/climatology classes & did a lot of study for my science (vegetation ecology) so may get increasingly more technical down the list.
These references from my book database hence the format (very dorky I know, but more or less than having a weather station or website!?):
A field guide to the atmosphere
Author: Schaefer, Vincent J.; Day, John A.
Publish year: 1981
Pages: 359
Publisher: Houghton-Mifflin Co.
ISBN: 0-395-33033-5
LOC Cat #: 80-25473
LC Call #: QC863.S346
DDC: 551.5
This is a great book in every way - good writing, great photos, covers a good range of topics, and written for an intelligent audience (back when intelligence was expected). Great cloud, frost, & snowflake pix. I can't say enough about this great book - the book if you only have one. Buy an earlier printing (signature bound) because it won't crack & fall apart like later cheap glued bindings do...
Meteorology Today - An Introduction to Weather, Climate and Environment
Author: Ahrens, C. Donald
year: March-01-88
Pages: 400
Publisher: Brooks/Cole
ISBN: 0314624775
Edition: 3rd
One of the general meteorology textbooks I used in college (I think I used the 4th ed., and hopefully later editions are as good but in general I find the newer the textbook the dumber the text - for general (i.e., not satellite climatology or modelling) info I'd suggest a used textbook from the early 70s - it'll be bound & printed better, written at a higher lever of intelligence, & have useful diagrame & photos with a minumum of useless 'color boxes' & other fluff.
The climate near the ground, 1st English ed.
Author: Geiger, Rudolf
year: 1959
Pages: 494
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Place: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Edition: 1st English
This book is a 'classic', originally in German, and covers the full topic of microclimatology.
The climate near the ground, 6th Englsh ed.
Author: Geiger, Rudolf; Aron, Robert H.; Todhunter, Paul
year: 2003
Pages: 584
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0-7425-1857-4
The most recent edition of 'Geiger' that I have - I took the class when Bob Aron was 'testing' the first revision of this he co-edited (ca. 1993 that meant paying $50 for a pile of poor quality photocopies from teh ripoff college bookstore!) Later I bought this properly published edition...
Climate in a small area - an introduction to local meteorology
Author: Yoshino, Masatoshi M.
year: 1975
Pages: 549
Publisher: University of Tokyo Press
Place: Tokyo, Japan
ISBN: 0860081443 :
LOC Cat #: 75330869
LC Call #: QC883.8.J3 Y6713
DDC: 551.6/6
Another great classic book on micrometeorology, equal to & good alongside Geiger. I had this checked out almost constantly in college.
Mountain Meteorology: Fundamentals and Applications
Author: Whiteman, C. David
year: August-24-00
Pages: 376
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Place: New York, NY
ISBN: 0195132718
LOC Cat #: 99024940
LC Call #: QC993.6 .W48 2000
DDC: 551.6914/3
I was very interested in mountain ecology for a few years & this was a good coverage of the topic.
Weather and climate of the Great Lakes region
Author: Eichenlaub, Val L. (Author)
year: 1979
Pages: 335
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Place: Notre Dame, Indiana
ISBN: 0268019304
LOC Cat #: 78051526
LC Call #: QC982.8.E3
DDC: 551.6/9/77
Another favorite of mine because it's the only book; and one of the few publications in English on the topic of lake-influenced weather & climate. I got my Msc degree at Western MI U where Eichenlaub was professor, but was a little disappointed that he was recently retired & had no interest in my enthusiasm of the topic (which was a big part of my research)... "I'm mostly interested in golf" he told the disappointed younger me. With the hindsight of 25 years I now suppose people have the right to retire completely at some point if they want - especially if they've written as useful a book as this!
The climatic atlas of Michigan
Author: Eichenlaub, Val L. (Text); Harman, Jay R. (Text); Nurnberger, Fred V. (Text); Stolle, Hans J. (Text)
year: 1990
Pages: 165
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Place: Notre Dame, Indiana
ISBN: 0-268-00773-x
LOC Cat #: 89-40020
LC Call #: QC984.M4E33 1990
DDC: 551.69774'022'2--dc20
Another book from Eichenlaub & colleagues; a bit clunky 35 years later when maps are a lot easier to make, but this was a goldmine of climatic information (& evidence of lake influence) for me in college.
Climates of the Soviet Union
Author: Lydolph, Paul E.
year: 1977
Pages: 443
Publisher: Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam
Place: Amsterdam, NL-New York, NY
ISBN: 0 444 41516 5
LOC Cat #: 76046298
LC Call #: QC980.15.W67 vol. 7 / QC989.R9
DDC: 551.6/08 s 551.6/9/47
As a specialist in the ussr/xussr area (along with vegetation!) in college this was always a standard if highly technical reference.
I ought to mention Weatherwise magazine too - I subscribed for a while 20 years ago but always have so much on my read list (much of it already decades or centuries old) that I felt I was getting behind every time a new issue showed up... I'm glad to see it's still published but now owned by the mega-academic T&F publisher/Informa & pretty expensive (though they state "Members of NWA and CoCoRaHs have a discounted print and online subscription rate of $35").
(plus a bunch in Russian on lake-influenced climate, forest climatology & phytoclimatology, 'the dictionary of winds', etc. - can give citations if you read the language...)
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