title: Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather: 2-Volume Set
author:  Stephen H. Schneider 
description: There are few encyclopedias on weather and climate (the last was John Oliver's The Encyclopedia of Climatology, Van Nostrand, 1987), so this two-volume set is welcome. Edited by a Stanford University professor, it is an alphabetical arrangement of over 300 short articles written by "the world's experts" on everything from clouds and tornadoes to human influences on weather and climate (e.g., acid rain, deforestation, and effects of aerosols on the ozone layer). While vast in scope, it still has a few omissions: as a horticulture librarian, this reviewer naturally looked for "hardiness zones" or "climate zones for gardening," for which there was no discussion or United States Department of Agriculture map. Nor was there a listing for Heinrich Walter, an author of important climate diagrams in Europe, though some biographical entries are included. The set contains over 400 black-and-white line drawings, photographs, charts, and maps, as well as a glossary. Written at an adult level, it may also be useful to exceptional high school students. Buy where needed for specialists and serious researchers but not for elementary-school assignments or collections where attractive color illustrations and catchy, simple synopses are required.?Laura Lipton, Univ. of Washington Lib., Seattle<BR>Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: The New Zealand
  Weather Book
  
  The New Zealand
  Weather Book
  Erick Brenstrum
  
  First edition 1998 
  Reprinted 1999, 2001, 2003, 2007
  Published by Craig Potton Publishing, Box 555, Nelson, New Zealand
  Copyright ©text Erick Brenstrum, 1998
  Copyright ©photographs, diagrams and illustrations as credited on page 126
  The right of Erick Brenstrum to be identified as the author of this work in terms 
  of section 96 of the New Zealand Copyright Act 1994 is hereby asserted.
  All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, 
  no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or 
  transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopy-
  ing, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of both the 
  copyright owner and Craig Potton Publishing Ltd.
  ISBN 978-0-908802-47-0
  Editor: James Brown
  Printed in China by Everbest Printing Co. Ltd
  
  Contents
   
  Acknowledgements 
  7
  Chapter 1 
  Understanding the Weather – Key Pri