Jet Stream, Tim Woollings
Jet Stream, Tim Woollings
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Jet Stream
A Journey Through our Changing Climate

Author: Tim Woollings

Narrator: Jonathan Cowley

Unabridged: 7 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/14/2020

Synopsis

A number of extreme weather events have struck the Northern Hemisphere in recent years, from scorching heatwaves to desperately cold winters, and from floods and storms to droughts and wildfires. These events have fueled intense discussions in scientific conferences, government agencies, cafes, and on street corners around the world. Why are these events happening? Is this the emerging signal of climate change, and should we expect more of this? Media reports vary widely, but one mysterious agent has risen to prominence in many cases: the jet stream.

The story begins on a windswept beach in Barbados, from where we follow the ascent of a weather balloon that will travel along the jet stream all around the world. From this viewpoint we observe the effect of the jet in influencing human life around the hemisphere, and witness startling changes emerging. What is the jet stream and how well do we understand it? How does it affect our weather and is it changing? These are the main questions tackled in this book.

About Tim Woollings

Tim Woollings obtained his PhD in Meteorology in 2005 and since then has worked on a variety of topics spanning weather prediction, atmospheric dynamics and circulation, and the effects of climate change. He has studied how the jet stream varies over weeks, years, and decades, and how we can better predict these changes. He has been a contributing author on three chapters of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. Tim has worked at the University of Reading as a postdoc, research fellow and then lecturer before moving to the University of Oxford in 2013. He is now an associate professor in physical climate science, leading a team of researchers in the Atmospheric Dynamics group. He teachers various courses on the fundamentals of geophysical fluid dynamics and atmospheric circulation.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Brian on October 27, 2019

The importance of the jet stream - a high speed flow of air that usually carries the warm air that makes the UK warmer than it should be for its position on the Earth - is rarely fully appreciated. Recently, though, we have had a number of extreme weather events that were put down to shifts in the j......more

Goodreads review by Efi on June 28, 2020

Just finished this fascinating journey through our changing climate and alongside the winds of our jet stream. This book by Tim Woolings exceeded my expectations and gave me more insight into atmosphere and jet stream dynamics. Written in a simple way, easy to read for scientists or not, it offers a......more

Goodreads review by Jayasankar on March 16, 2020

The book is for the climate/weather enthusiasts who would like to look beyond the global warming story and greenhouse effect. When Indian cricket team toured England in 2018, for the fist time in the history spin bowling was thought to play a part due to the hot conditions there. Indians used to tro......more

Goodreads review by LI on February 02, 2020

In a logical and easy to follow manner, Tim combines recent wether and climate news events, stories of important people who developed the science of the jet stream, qualitative concepts from fluid dynamics textbooks and the latest literature reviews on the jet stream into this wonderfully well writt......more

Goodreads review by Regina on February 01, 2020

Too often pop sci authors don’t tell us everything about the subject they are writing, in many cases, reticent about either boring or loosing us. But Tim Woollings doesn’t hold anything back from the reader. He does a superb job describing all the complexity of the jet stream in a comprehensive and f......more

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