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Avalanche!
Robert Bolognesi Cicerone Press
112 pages 15.8 x 10.2 cm Paperback
Published 2007
The skill of avalanche prediction is both an art and a science. This guide, aimed at mountaineers, skiers, climbers, snowboarders, snowshoers, walkers and all who love winter and snow sports, can help you learn that skill. The guide draws on the expertise of a wide range of professionals involved in mountain activities, as well as first-hand accounts of avalanche scenes from witnesses and survivors, to help you understand and predict avalanches, evaluate the risks and reduce the dangers. This practical, pocket-sized guide is for use on the mountain and during planning.
The guide includes a NivoTest designed to help quantify the risks from avalanches.
Guidepost Price £7.99
Publisher's Price £7.99
Snow
Robert Bolognesi Cicerone Press
63 pages 15.8 x 10.2 cm Paperback
Published 2007
This practical guide is aimed at walkers, climbers and snowsport enthusiasts who want to acquire or improve their knowledge of snow and avalanche release. It is equally suitable for snow professionals, guides, mountaineering and snowsport instructors, and ski patrollers.
It describes the formation and evolution of snow, and shows practical methods for examining and analysing snow cover. It illustrates how to identify the many forms which snow may take and how to assess avalanche risk more precisely and reliably
It includes a system of snow observation and a handy snow crystal card for identifying crystals in the snow layer.
Guidepost Price £7.99
Publisher's Price £7.99
Weather Watching
Need to Know? series Collins
192 pages A5 Paperback
Published 2006
This very practical beginner’s guide to weather watching offers a lot of valuable advice and insider tips on how to predict unusual and extreme events, what to do in the event of a hurricane warning, and where to go to make the best observations for DIY forecasts. A general introduction covers the ice ages, old sayings for predicting the weather, the weather system and how it works and the make-up of the atmosphere. It also gives an overview of weather around the world, seasons and climates, including poles, tropics, sub-tropics, temperate, deserts and arid, semi-arid, Mediterranean, northern, montane and coastal regions.
Contents include:
Winds - what causes them, their significance to weather systems, tropical storms, hurricanes, tornados etc
Clouds - what they are, how they form, and how you can forecast the weather based on cloud observations
Precipitation - rain, freezing rain, hail, sleet, snow, floods, flash floods, monsoons; modelling and predicting severe storms
Fog - the different kinds and the primary processes that produce fog. Also what causes smog and what is being done to improve air quality and reduce smog
Unusual & Extreme Events - from rainbows to earthquake-induced events; extremes of weather including drought and dust bowls, major floods, sand storms and world records
Forecasting & Prediction - an introduction to modern weather forecasting, and how to understand the measurements and symbols used in weather reporting
Mankind & The Weather - pollution, acid rain, the ozone layers, recent events, the greenhouse effect and its effects on health and the economy, climate change and global warming, deforestation; also how we can use the weather for wind power, tidal power, hydroelectric schemes and solar power.
Guidepost Price £9.49
Publisher's Price £9.99
Mountain Weather
David Pedgley Cicerone Press
160 pages 21.6 x 13.8 cm Paperback
Published 2006
Whether to avoid danger or to add to the enjoyment of a mountain scene, this book helps hill-walkers and climbers to get the weather forecasts most suited to their needs, to understand them, and to interpret them in the light of experience of mountain weather. The book is in three parts:
Part One - describes the kinds of forecasts available and how they can be found.
Part two - helps you understand the forecast through the use of weather maps.
Part Three - describes and explains some of the ways our mountains make their own weather.
Guidepost Price £12.00
Publisher's Price £12.00
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