= Making Sense of Weather and Climate =
== Mark Denny, 2017, Beaverton 551.6 DEN ==
 . British Columbian author
A good general introduction to weather science, some phenomenolgical extrapolation towards climate.

 .p051 power difference about 1 W/m²
 .p073 1960s Mikhail Budyko 1-D energy balance model - hysteresis, but not albedo (volcano, etc.)
 .discussion of general circulation model and computational accuracy
 .p086 graphs of global temperature
 .p088 ''about'' 0.8C higher from anthropogenic CO₂
 .p103 Operational Environmental Satellites:  GOES (geosync) and (POES) polar 14.1 orbits per day
 .p146 Single cell thunderstorm, 1e15 J, 16e6 tstorm/year globally, 2k at once, US 1e6/year, 10% severe
 .p147 supercell thunderstorm, cyclonic, many hours
 .p151 typical lightning, 5e8 J, 30 KA, about 0.25 sec in 3 or 4 strokes, peak power 1e12 W (microseconds)
 .p152 -23 MV, +79MV for one storm. globally 1.5 billion flashes per year
 .p156 vapor saturation graph, g/kg: 50 @40C,  4.5 @0C, 2 @-10C, 1 @-20C, ~0 @-35C
 .p163 lapse rates:  environmental ~6.5C/km, dry 9.8C/km, saturated ~6C/km 
 .p182 hurricane rainfall carries 600 TW, perhaps 1.3e6 km²
 .p207 prediction improving (longer timespan into future, a day or two for local weather, extra hour or two for tornados)