Explores a wide range of weather topics, including climate and seasons, wind and gales, lightning and thunderstorms, hurricanes and tornadoes, solar wonders, and weather forecasting.

Five volumes present the lives and work of great Western scientists. Volume V: Feynman; Crick, Franklin & Watson; Hawking; Lives in Science: A Biographical Dictionary; Glosary; Further Reading & Websites; and Set Index.

Provides information about hurricanes, describing the conditions that lead to their formation, discussing what happens during the course of such storms, explaining how they are tracked and named, and looking at some historic hurricanes.

Explains the science behind floods, discussing how, why, and where they occur, considering the cost of floods, and looking at significant floods of the past.

This book presents a comprehensive look at the desert and semidesert biomes, examining their climate, plants, animals, people, and future, plus detailed views of some famous or important desert locations.

Presents an overview of hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, blizzards, floods, and other types of dangerous weather; provides a time line of catastrophic weather events from c. 3200 B.C. to 1997; features a chronology of meteorological discovery; and includes weather experiments that may be performed at home.

Examines the origin of water, the structure of the water molecule, its properties and the ways in which water is exploited.

Text and illustrations, diagrams, tables, and charts present information on such topics as surface features of Earth, weather and climate, natural resources, and environmental problems.