From Raindrops to Volcanoes : Adventures with Sea Surface Meteorology

Rating:
Summary: Still A Worthy Read
Review: I first read "From Raindrops to Volcanoes" when I was a meteorology student in the late 1960s and interested in cloud physics. It was one of the best of a great series of lay science books published in by Doubleday/Anchor at the time. I reread the book again after many years about two years ago and find it is still one of the best of its genre. Blanchard presents his topic well. I love his book "The Snowflake Man" about Snowflake Bentley, but still rate this as his best. Blanchard, now retired, told me that the material in this book has not been superceded by recent advances in the science, so there is no reason to caution the reader. Blanchard's humorous insights into the world of the research scientist flesh out a well written book.

Rating:
Summary: Still A Worthy Read
Review: I first read "From Raindrops to Volcanoes" when I was a meteorology student in the late 1960s and interested in cloud physics. It was one of the best of a great series of lay science books published in by Doubleday/Anchor at the time. I reread the book again after many years about two years ago and find it is still one of the best of its genre. Blanchard presents his topic well. I love his book "The Snowflake Man" about Snowflake Bentley, but still rate this as his best. Blanchard, now retired, told me that the material in this book has not been superceded by recent advances in the science, so there is no reason to caution the reader. Blanchard's humorous insights into the world of the research scientist flesh out a well written book.