Meteorology and flight : a pilot's guide to weather / Tom Bradbury.
By: Bradbury, Tom (Tom A. M.)
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BookPublisher: London : A & C Black, 1996Edition: 2nd ed.Description: 186 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 071364446X.Subject(s): Meteorology in aeronauticsDDC classification: 629.1324 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 629.1324 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00098535 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A practical weather book for anyone interested in flight, covering both large and small-scale systems. This edition contains up-to-date information on means of obtaining data such as the MetFAX system, plus details on METAR and TAF reports. The book describes the infulence of high-level jet streams on the development of depressions, as well as detailing thermals, lee waves and up-and-down currents which are important to pilots of sailplanes, microlights, hang gliders and balloons. Diagrams show the movement of air at various heights and also trace the development of clouds, from fair weather cumulus to giant cumulonimbus and the associated hazards of lightning, hail, downbursts and outflows.
Previous ed.: 1989.
Includes index.
Introduction -- Air in motion -- The development of depressions and anticyclones -- Fronts -- Stability in the atmosphere -- Convection and cumulus clouds -- The organisation of cumulus -- Cumulonimbus -- Waves -- Some theoretical aspects of wave flow -- Waves and cumulus -- Flying in waves -- Local winds -- Airflow over ridges and mountains -- Visibility -- Weather maps and forecasts -- Satellites -- Gliding weather.