Reading the glass : a captain's view of weather, water, and life on ships /
Rappaport, Elliot,
Reading the glass : a captain's view of weather, water, and life on ships / Captain's view of weather, water, and life on ships Elliot Rappaport. - viii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-319).
Davis strait -- The hourly -- First principles -- The cloud forest -- The serpent's coil -- God's roof -- The mother ship -- Volta do mar -- Safely out to sea -- A river of wind -- Clambakes of antiquity -- The ice drills -- HTHH -- Your career of choice -- In the month of farch.
A professional captain of traditional sailing ships who has spent thirty years at sea offers a sailor's-eye-view of the moving parts of our atmosphere, unveiling the larger patterns it holds: global winds, storms, air masses, jet streams, and the longer arc of our climate.
9780593185056 0593185056
Rappaport, Elliot.
Marine meteorology.
Weather.
Seafaring life.
Ship captains--United States--Biography.
Autobiographies.
Reading the glass : a captain's view of weather, water, and life on ships / Captain's view of weather, water, and life on ships Elliot Rappaport. - viii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-319).
Davis strait -- The hourly -- First principles -- The cloud forest -- The serpent's coil -- God's roof -- The mother ship -- Volta do mar -- Safely out to sea -- A river of wind -- Clambakes of antiquity -- The ice drills -- HTHH -- Your career of choice -- In the month of farch.
A professional captain of traditional sailing ships who has spent thirty years at sea offers a sailor's-eye-view of the moving parts of our atmosphere, unveiling the larger patterns it holds: global winds, storms, air masses, jet streams, and the longer arc of our climate.
9780593185056 0593185056
Rappaport, Elliot.
Marine meteorology.
Weather.
Seafaring life.
Ship captains--United States--Biography.
Autobiographies.