# Exploring Weather and Climate - First Edition

- By: Glen Sampson
- Publisher: Glen Sampson
- Source: [Open Textbook Library](https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/exploring-weather-and-climate-first-edition)
- Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
- PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ni0T0UvwZgHuaxND9pu3P9rx5SD7XXTD/view?usp=sharing

This textbook is oriented toward a first or second year college science class, or an advanced high school course. Sixteen chapters are present which fits a 16-week college semester. These chapters may be divided into three sections: 1. Atmospheric processes including structure, composition, energy balance, pressure forces, moisture, stability, and precipitation processes in Chapters 1 through 5. 2. Weather systems including global circulation, tropical and extratropical cyclones, thunderstorms, tornadoes, atmospheric optics, and weather forecasting in Chapters 6 through 10. 3. Climate topics including classification, human influences on the atmosphere, natural climate variability, paleoclimate, climate change due to anthropogenic influences, climate projections, and a changing climate’s affect on extreme weather in Chapters 11 through 16.