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Chapters: Severe Weather Terminology, Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators, Parks Canada, Global Environmental Multiscale Model, Canadian Wildlife Service, Weatheradio Canada, Canadian Hurricane Centre, Canadian Biodiversity Strategy, Biodiversity Convention Office, Intermediate General Circulation Model, Cccma, Biodiversity Outcomes Framework, Key Habitat Site, Canadian Biodiversity Information Network, Canwarn, Water Survey of Canada. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 57. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: This article describes Severe weather terminology used by the Environment Canada's Meteorological Service of Canada. This article focuses on terminology per se, such as tornado warning. Related weather scales and general weather terms are also addressed in this article. Some terms may be specific to certain regions. Example of the weather warning battleboardThe Meteorological Service is responsible for issuing all Canadian weather alerts using a variety of different technologies. Watches, Warnings and Special Weather Statements alert Canadians to a number of weather conditions that are occurring or are expected to occur, that could impact the safety of persons or cause damage to property or the environment: Updated statements, watches and warnings are reissued or upgraded as needed. Weather watches and warnings are issued for the following conditions: Convective severe weather: Tropical: Large scale: Other: To issue the different type of bulletins, some criteria must be met. Severe Thunderstorms watchWhen the following conditions could develop over a region: flooding rain, destructive winds with gusts greater that 90 km/h, hail of at least 20 mm in diameter or tornadoes . Tornado watchWhen severe thunderstorms have developed and there is the possibility of one or more...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7837152 ... Read more

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Title: National Weather Service (Nws) Modernization Program Status : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment of the Committee on Science, U.s. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, February 29, 1996Publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales OfficePublication date: 1996Subjects: United States. National Weather ServiceWeather forecasting -- United States Data processingMeteorological instruments -- United StatesMeteorological services -- Technological innovations United StatesNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Title: Next Generation Weather Radar (Nexrad) : Are We Covered? : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment of the Committee on Science, U.s. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, October 17, 1995Publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the U.S. G.P.O., Supt. of Docs., Congressional Sales OfficePublication date: 1996Subjects: Weather radar networks -- United StatesRadar meteorologyNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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If your children have ever wondered about the weather, this fun and informative book will have them Living in Cloud 9!Windsock Wesley & His Wild & Wonderful Weather Machine provides an exciting peek into how the world's weather systems form. Windsock Wesley, a nutty yet loveable professor-like man, circumnavigates the planet following its weather systems. He is accompanied on the trip by his assistant, Cirrus, a capuchin monkey.Cirrus was named after the cirrus type of clouds, and that's exactly where Wesley and Cirrus live: inside a magic motor home named Cloud 9. But this motor home is unlike any other motor home you've ever seen! It can travel through time and space to find itself anywhere on the planet where wild weather is raging.Wesley finds himself saving the Kayapo tribe from torrential rains in the Amazon. The two save the tribe members, feed them and help rebuild their homes. Wesley advises them to build their new houses on stilts!The book includes a weather glossary to understand weather terms and also discusses weather phenomena such as thunder and lightning, and the incredible things happening in the sky when storms and tornadoes are brewing.Author Alex Fox has been writing professionally for 17 years. She moved from the UK to Qatar a few years ago with her husband, a meteorologist. She plans to write a series of five Windsock Wesley books and then move on to another seriesPublisher's website: http://www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/WindsockWesley-LivingInCloud9.html ... Read more

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Wow - what a read
Although this book is aimed at Children, I read it from cover to cover, and as a serial book worm (aged 26), I couldn't put it down. Not only is is fun and kooky and exciting, but I actually learned a heck of a lot from it too and I just love the characters - I felt I really got to know them! From a children's perspective, my 8-year-old niece adores this read too - we read it together over the course of a few evenings and she's gripped too. The only thing we are left wanting is the next book; we can't wait for the sequel so we can carry on this fab, funky, fantastical journey. Thanks Alex Fox for a great read!

A Great Story and Highly Educational A+++++++
This is a unique story that not only informs children about weather systems, but also about the culture of the Kayapo tribe in the Amazon. Very fun, entertaining and captivating. I highly recommend this book, and will be purchasing more for my friends and families children. ... Read more

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Can you imagine a world without clouds, wind or sunshine? What if you never felt another summer rain? That is what almost happened in the book Weather or Not, the tale about a very special rainbow.www.falconbulletin.com ... Read more

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Perfect for a great bedtime story
Story flows very fast to keep the child interested. Wonderful gift as a first book for baby or small child ages 0 to 5 ... Read more