Meteorology/Forecasting Books?

[Justin Teague]

I'm sure that we've had a thread about this before, but I thought that it might be nice to get some recommendations for the latest and greatest books on forecasting and meteorology.

I enjoyed studying from "Thunderstorm Morphology and Dynamics" for a few years, and I had made up my mind that I was going to do a little more studying this winter. I thought about purchasing the revised version, but I'm afraid that it might be a little dated now.

What other books are out there for those of us that are interested in advanced learning but don't want to read 10-30 year old material?

***I've already searched the web. I am looking for FIRST HAND recommendations please***

 

[Angel Dimitrov]

weather books

Hello Justin,

For me, the Internet provide all needed information:

Online journals of American Meteorological Society (free before 2001), so you have to pay some fee for access or to google the latest articles (in case they are online in PDF format on other servers).

http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-archive

In the latest articles you will find and E-mails for contacts, you can ask the authors for additional information.

MetEd has a lot of online training modules:

http://meted.ucar.edu

Both are excellent source for reading.

By the way, now I'm listening to the radio on Gene Rhoden (archive), sweet rock and interesting talk.

Cheers,

Angel

 

[Justin Teague]

I'll probably just buy the revised version of Thunderstorm Morphology and Dynamics. I've been through several online training modules and they aren't quite what I'm looking for, but they are still a good resource, especially for beginners.

 

[Mikey Gribble]

Severe Convective Storms is pretty good. I don't know exactly how new it is, but I don't think it's old. Here is a link to the list of chapters and contributors to it.
http://www.ametsoc.org/pubs/books/scs_toc.html
I got a couple other good books that I'll post the names of when I get home. I'm at work now so I don't have them with me.

 

[Tim Vasquez]

Analysis & diagnosis is where forecasting all begins, so get thee to a copy of Dusan Djuric's Weather Analysis. It's out of print and a bit pricy, but I think it's well worth it. Also you don't have to spend money to get a good analysis-diagnosis grounding... there's Chuck Doswell's Mesoscale Analysis (PDF) which is getting to that zone of being a dated relic, but it's a good foundation to build upon, and Chuck of course writes vividly and doesn't drag out the equations and statistics unless it's absolutely warranted. I'd head on over to his essays too as well as to his more controversial writings.

Tim

 

[Blake Michaleski]

I'll second the recommendation for Djuric's Book. It it used in ours as well as many other Synoptic Meteorology courses at other universities.

 

[Mikey Gribble]

Both of Chuck's books that Tim mentioned (Mesocale Analysis and Storm Scale Analysis) are awesome. They are probably my two favorite books, but they are old, so if you want something newer that isn't the way to go. I don't think the age matters on them though because the information in the books is certainly still relevant. I like them a lot because of the no nonsense style of writing. You used to be able to get both of those books for free from one of the departments at OU. I don't know if they have any more available though. Anyways, I highly recomend both Vol. 1 and 2 of Operational Meteorology of Convective Weather by Doswell.

 

[Justin Teague]

Thanks for the replies. I'll try to get my hands on a few of those and hopefully they will appeal to my quest for more knowledge.

 

[Mike Peregrine]

If you don't have Tim's Storm Chaser Handbook, it is still one of my favorite starter resources. I actually get mine out and read through it just about every year before the season starts. My skills still have a lot to be desired, but this book reminds me of things I tend to forget between convective seasons every year. Hope you have a fruitful quest -

 

[Justin Teague]

I don't have the Chaser Handbook, but I've had the Forecasting Handbook for several years. It was a great starting point I recommend it to anyone that is getting started.

 

[Mikey Gribble]

I personally didn't like the Storm Chaser Handbook (sorry Tim), but the Forecasting Handbook and the Weather Map Handbook were both great and IMO the two best books you can get for the beginer to moderate level forecaster. The newest one (red book) was pretty good too. I got the damn thing confiscated at an air show two days after I got it though, so I don't have that one anymore.

 

[Aaron Wesson]

I use all three of Tims books (Red, Green and Purple) and I use MedEd and Google.
Thanks for the links to Chucks stuff Tim.. great info!

 

[Martin North]

I just bought the Tim Vasquez's Forecasting Handbook for a present for someone for Christmas. Couldn't resist a quick peek through it.

Seems excellent.

 

[Willoughby Owen]

I placed an order on weathergraphics.com with paypal on the 28th of Nov and I still have no idea on shipping status without details and unanswered emails and PM's to Tim I sent 5 and 4 days ago respectively.