Clouds: How to Identify Nature's Most Fleeting Forms - Hardcover

by Edward Graham (Author), Richard Hamblyn (Foreword by)

A one-of-a-kind illustrated guide to clouds, cloud formations, and the artists who painted them

• Presents a "taxonomic" approach to identification, applying the basic laws of geometry to quantify and measure clouds and cloud formations
• Showcases artists who painted clouds from a scientific viewpoint, such as John Constable, Frederic Edwin Church, J.M.W. Turner, and Caspar David Friedrich
• Tells the stories of the physicists and painters who have attempted to record the many different incarnations of clouds
• Explains the physics of clouds, from the basic constituents of Earth's atmosphere to cloud formation and dissipation, the colors and shades of clouds, the development of precipitation, and the timescale evolution of clouds
• Discusses the classification and naming of clouds
• Serves as a user-friendly reference guide to low, midlevel, and high cloud species
• Includes charts, infographics, and a glossary of terms

Author Biography

Edward Graham is an award-winning lecturer and atmospheric scientist and was Editor-in-Chief of Weather, the flagship journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, from 2019 to 2024. His research interests include clouds, historical meteorology, and the influence of weather on astronomy. He is presently based at the University of the Highlands and Islands in Scotland.