Atmosphere, The, Pearson New International Edition, 12th edition

Thanks to a mounting interest in climate change and severe weather phenomena, meteorology courses are increasingly popular among today’s students – particularly in general education versions of the course, where rapid advances in visualization tools and technologies like GIS have greatly expanded the teacher’s toolkit. The Atmosphere: An Introduction to Meteorology remains the standard introduction in its field, reinforcing basic concepts with everyday, easy-to-grasp examples. This revision retains the hallmarks professors have come to expect from Tarbuck and Lutgens: a friendly, largely non-technical narrative, timely coverage of recent atmospheric events, and carefully crafted artwork by leading science illustrator Dennis Tasa. The Twelfth Edition maintains a student-friendly approach while evolving to address various course challenges and trends. Current digital visualization and assessment tools are now available on MyMeteorologyLab, a new resource that both encourages student self-study and enables instructors to manage their courses online, with customizable assessments for students.
Each chapter in this revision is organized by a new active learning path to help guide and engage non-science majors. A greater focus on popular and increasingly important Severe & Hazardous Weather applications, new critical visual analysis Eye on the Atmosphere features, as well as new discussions of the real-world career opportunities of meteorology with Professional Profile essays, make the science both relevant and exciting.

• The StudentsSometimes Ask... feature adds relevance to text discussions with high-interest questions and answers distributed throughout the chapter and identified by a large question mark.
• Compelling illustrations by Dennis Tasa, carefully selected photographs, and relevant satellite images demonstrate ideas and concepts more clearly and realistically than ever before.
• Ample pedagogy includes chapter summaries, key terms, checklists, review questions, and application problems with a quantitative orientation.
• A flexible organization allows instructors to rearrange or omit chapters without losing continuity.
• GEODe icons are found throughout the book wherever a text discussion has a corresponding GEODe: Atmosphere activity. This dynamic program reinforces key concepts by using animations, tutorials, interactive exercises and review quizzes.

• NEW! Eye On The Atmosphere feature boxes engage students with active learning tasks, asking them to observe, perform critical visual analysis, and forecast—core behavioral goals of this course.
• NEW! A Cloud Chart insert at the end of the book encourages students to make observations and forecasts in the real world.
• NEW! Focus on Concepts learning goals are now listed in the chapter-opening spreads to help students focus on and prioritize the learning goals for each chapter.
• NEW! Concept Check questions are integrated throughout each chapter. These serve as conceptual speed bumps, asking students to assess their understanding as they are reading.
• NEW! Give It Some Thought (GIST) questions are found at the end of each chapter and ask students to use higher-level thinking. They often involve chapter visuals, which help students apply and synthesize entire chapter concepts.
• NEW! Professional Profile boxes in select chapters highlight the professional career opportunities within the atmospheric sciences. Contributors range from individuals working at the Storm Prediction Center, to Climate Change researchers, to a television meteorologist.
• NEW and UPDATED Special Interest boxes better emphasize Severe & Hazardous Weather and other specialized content.
• GEODe icons are now integrated throughout, connecting the print book to the interactive tutorials found online with assessment.
• NEW! End-of-chapter callouts to MyMeteorologyLab are provided for each chapter.
• NEW! Reference maps on global weather extremes and Earth satellite imagery are now found inside the front and back cover of the book.
• NEW! MyMeteorologyLab is a new resource for both student self-study and for instructors to manage their courses online and provide customizable assessments to students. MyMeteorologyLab includes:
  
• NEW Geoscience Animations with assessments help students visualize their understanding of complex meteorological processes.
• NEW video resources provide current, real-world visualizations and examples of meteorology events and phenomena.
• NEW MapMasterTM interactive maps with quizzes.
• NEW Carbone’s Exercises for Weather & Climate, Eighth Edition, the popular interactive meteorology media from the best-selling exercise manual.
• GEODe tutorials by DennisTasa with quizzes.
• Chapter Tests and other quizzes
• Web links
• Glossary flashcards
• “In the News” RSS feeds
• Pearson eText