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Color and Light in Nature
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Fluid Dynamics of the Mid-Latitude Atmosphere
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Global Warming: the Complete Briefing John T. Houghton
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Ian Strangeways
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Prophet or Professor? The Life and Work of Lewis Fry Richardson
Oliver M. Ashford
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The Role of the Sun in Climate Change
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Seamless Prediction of the Earth System: from Minutes to Months
G. Brunet, S. Jones and P.M. Ruti, eds
(World Meteorological Organization, 2015)
The Sun’s Influence on Climate
J. D. Haigh and P. Cargill
(Princeton University Press, 2015)
The Thinking Person’s Guide to Climate Change
Robert Henson
(American Meteorological Society, 2014)
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For a host of images of atmospheric optics
The UK’s national weather service providing weather and climate change forecasts for the UK and worldwide
National Aeronautics and Space Administration website for the latest news, images and videos from the USA’s space agency
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a scientific agency for the USA that focuses on conditions in the oceans and the atmosphere
NOAA’s laboratory and service centre, the Space Weather Prediction Center, monitors and forecasts space weather and provides space weather alerts for the USA
Includes an excellent series of articles on monsoons and rainy seasons from Elsevier’s Encyclopedia of Atmospheric Sciences (paywalled)
www.sciencemag.org/content/194/4270/1121
The paper that ‘proved’ Milankovitch right, published in Science (1976) 194: 4270, 1121-1132, can be found via the above link (paywalled)