2: Weather and Climate
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By the end of this chapter you should be able to
- Describe at least three mechanisms that will cause clouds to form
- Discuss the effects of violent weather such as hurricanes and tornadoes on people
- Apply geographic principles of climate introduced in class to predict climate in Modelland
Thumbnail: A typhoon as seen from low Earth orbit. (Public domain; Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, of the NASA Johnson Space Center).