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CLOUDS The ultimate pictorial reference, with breathtaking cloudscapes and a practical guide to cloudspotting. “His sky is always filled with clouds.”—Arabic blessing At some time or other, we all like to reawaken our inner child by gazing dreamily up at the clouds, feeding our imagination as we stare at their varied shapes, and seeking inspiration from their beauty. Clouds celebrates these natural splendors with some of the most spectacular images ever taken; at the same time, it serves as a practical aid that helps us identify every type, from the cottony, fluffy ones to others that glower and threaten as a storm rides in. With a chapter devoted to each category, from cirrus to cumulonimbus, this splendid volume reveals how, exquisite or portentous, clouds are vital to the planet’s climatic regulation. They’re the way the atmosphere expresses its mood, and its many different aspects appear in dramatic images that set you right in the sky where you can see everything from cloud cells to ice crystals to streaks of lightning close‐up. At the back of the book, a detailed visual glossary explains the development of weather systems and clouds in particular. About the author: Eric Wilcox is an atmospheric scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Trained at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, he focuses on climate modeling and cloud interactions. Eric has contributed a number of articles to technical CLOUDS journals and is a member of the Eric J. Wilcox American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union. Duncan Baird, an imprint of Sterling Publishing Sale date: October 7, 2008 For more information, 176 pp visit his academic website at: ISBN: 1844837130 http://climate.gsfc.nasa.gov/userpage/ewilcox#here ISBN13: 978‐1844837137 $24.95 US y $26.95 CAN Hardcover with jacket y Color y 9 1/2 X 8 2/3 About the writer of the foreword: Gavin Pretor‐Pinney is the founder of The Cloud Appreciation Society and author of the international bestseller The Cloudspotter’s Guide. For more information: www.cloudappreciationsociety.org