Weather Maps
Subtitle: How to read and Interpret All the Basic Weather Charts
By: by Peter R. Chaston.
Edition: Second Edition
Publisher: Chaston Scientific
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Kearney, MO
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Meteorology -- Charts, diagrams, etc. -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Description: This book describes all of the basic weather maps used used in contemporary operational weather forecasting. It is written for the non-meteorologist as well as for the meteorologist. The chapters are written in an easy-to-read format and embody explanations of meteorological principles and processes throughout the text. The final few chapters cover advanced topics in the science and are included for the reader who is also interested in new "cutting edge" topics in meteorology.

The book can also be used as a text in meteorology. If the reader starts with chapter one and progresses numerically through each chapter, he / she will find that some chapters build on material presented in previous chapters. Thus, by using weather maps as the means to study meteorology, the science comes alive and remains exciting, especially if you have access to daily weather maps and use them with this book to learn more about the weather.

This book is also a handy reference for professional meteorologists and other weather enthusiasts on how to read and interpret the most commonly-used weather maps.
Table of contents: title: Dedication; title: Introduction; title: About the Author; label: 1.
title: Some Interesting Highlights in the History of Weather; label: 2.
title: The Surface Weather Map; title: a. reading plotted weather observations; title: b. what are isobars?; title: c. what are high and low pressure centers and systems?; title: d. what causes the wind? (what is the pressure gradient force?); title: e .what are cold, warm, occluded and stationary fronts?; title: f. interpreting the surface weather map; label: 3.
title: What causes weather?: moisture distribution and vertical air motions; label: 4.
title: The Radar Summary Chart; label: 5.
title: The Weather Depiction Chart; label: 6.
title: The Surface-Pressure Change Chart; label: 7.
title: The Surface "Geostrophic" Wind Chart; label: 8.
title: The Surface "Geostrophic" Velocity Chart; label: 9.
title: The Lightning Detection Summary Chart; label: 10.
title: What are Upper-Level Charts?; label: 11.
title: The 850 Millibar (850 hectoPascal) Level Chart; label: 12.
title: The 700 Millibar (700 hectoPascal) Level Chart; label: 13.
title: The 500 Millibar (500 hectoPascal) Level Chart; label: 14.
title: The 300, 250, and 200 Millibar (hectoPascal) Charts and the Jet Stream; label: 15.
title: What is the Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL): PBL Charts; label: 16.
title: Surface-to-500-Millibar Mean Relative Humidity Chart; label: 17.
title: 700 Millibar Vertical Velocity Chart; label: 18.
title: 1000-to-800-Millibar Thickness Chart; label: 19.
title: Precipitable Water Chart; label: 20.
title: Lifted Index Chart; label: 21.
title: K-Index Chart; label: 22.
title: Corrective Outlook for Day 1 Chart; label: 23.
title: Severe Weather Outlook for Day 3 Chart; label: 24.
title: Quantitative Precipitation Forecast (QPF) Charts; label: 25.
title: Excessive Rainfall Potential Chart; label: 26.
title: Heavy Snow QPF Chart; label: 27.
title: Satellite Interpretation Chart; label: 28.
title: Freezing Level Plot Chart; label: 29.
title: Freezing Level and Low Level Turbulence Prog; label: 30.
title: 800 Millibar Wave-Five Chart; label: 31.
title: Surface Moisture-Flux Convergence Chart; label: 32.
title: 12 hr, 24 hr, 36 hr and 48 hr Surface Progs; label: 33.
title: Climatological Charts: temperature, rainfall, snowcover; label: 34.
title: Computer Forecast Models and their Prognostications; label: 35.
title: Model Output Statistics (MOS) and MOS Charts; label: 36.
title: Trajectory Charts; label: 37.
title: 700 Millibar Not Vertical Displacement Chart; label: 38.
title: The "Magic Chart" for Snow Forecasting; label: 39.
title: Theta-E and Theta-E Charts; label: 40.
title: Q-Vectors and Q-Vector Charts; label: 41.
title: Potential Vorticity and Potential Vorticity Charts; label: 42.
title: Isentropic Charts; label: 43.
title: Some Miscellaneous Charts; title: a. Aviation Upper Level Winds Charts; title: b. Marine Wind and Wave Charts; title: c. Surface Streamline Charts; title: d. Tropical Surface Charts; title: e. Note about other charts; label: 44.
title: Weather Radar; label: 45.
title: Weather Satellite Imagery; title: a. visible satellite imagery; title: b. infra-red and enhanced infra-red satellite imagery; title: c. water vapor imagery; title: Appendices:; label: A.
title: METAR/SPECI code for surface weather observations, U.S. version; label: B.
title: The Skew-T, Log P Thermodynamic Diagrams