Cloudman Books

Peterson Field Guide to Weather (Peterson Field Guides)
by Jay Anderson, Jay Pasachoff, John A. Day 

A resource for those intrigued by events in the sky—clouds, precipitation, storms, aurora, halos—and for those who follow daily weather events. Using a nontechnical approach, the authors describe the flow of energy and moisture through global and local landscapes and how they evolve into day-to-day weather. For those fascinated by the sky’s colors and patterns, there are halos, rainbows, iridescent clouds, and other tapestries in the sky.

For the cloud-watcher, common and unusual cloud forms are covered; for those entranced by storms, the guide includes severe thunderstorms, winter blizzards, hurricanes, hail, ice storms, and other challenges that the atmosphere inflicts. It even includes a chapter on weather in the atmospheres of the planets and the sun. More than 400 photographs illustrate visible weather, and diagrams explain the more challenging physical concepts.

This book is designed for those who want to look up, marvel, and understand what they see.

From the dustjacket:

"In The Book of Clouds, John A. Day, known around the world as the Cloudman introduces, or reintroduces, us to earth's great skyscape. His spectacular portfolio of cloud photographs forms the centerpiece of these glorious pages. A stunning cloud chart, an explanation of how clouds form, hints on forecasting, observing and photographing clouds, and his 'Ten Reasons to Look Up' (the first one is, 'It's the greatest free show on earth'), show us how to use our 'inner eye' to really see the familiar fleeting forms that seem to float effortlessly above."

Peterson Field Guides™ -- Atmosphere was written by Cloudman, John A. Day, with friend, Vincent J. Schaefer, and has detailed information, charts, and photographs of meteorological phenomena accumulated over years of laboratory, field and flight experiences.

Peterson First Guides™ -- Clouds and Weather is a simplified field guide to the atmosphere with information and photographs designed to introduce the science and aesthetics of the sky.