College Level Meteorology

By: AudioLearn Content Team

Narrated by: Kevin Charles

Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins

Publisher's summary

AudioLearn’s College Level Courses presents Meteorology.

Developed by experienced professors and professionally narrated for easy listening, this course is a great way to explore the subject of meteorology. The audio is focused and high-yield, covering the most important topics you might expect to learn in a typical undergraduate course in Meteorology. The material is accurate, up-to-date, and broken down into bite-sized sections.There are quizzes and key takeaways following each section to review questions commonly tested and drive home key points.

Here are the main topics we’ll be covering:

• Understanding the Earth's atmosphere
• Cooling and warming the Earth
• Daily fluctuations in temperature
• Humidity, clouds, and condensation
• Cloud formation and how precipitation happens
• Air pressure and how wind forms
• Circulation in the atmosphere
• Air masses, fronts, and middle-latitude cyclone
• Weather forecasting
• Thunderstorms and tornadoes
• Hurricanes and other tropical weather phenomena
• Our global climate
• Air pollution
• Atmospheric optics and how they affect the sky

We will conclude the course with a 200-question practice test. Also included is a follow-along PDF manual containing the entire text of this audio course as well as all images, figures, and charts we’ll be discussing.

Now, let’s get started!

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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Works well as an audiobook

Pleasantly surprised after trying it out - covers basic definitions and processes nicely (without over complicating) and also contains info on paleoclimatology and paleo-weather. Definitely tried to go broad rather than deep.

Absolutely horrible

I’ve come to expect mistakes in written content, however there were so many mistakes it became distracting. The narrator seems to have been reading a different written copy or he simply could not bring himself to read the ridiculous errors. In some cases the information itself was incorrect and contradicting. I would have to google the information to get the actual facts. I kept plodding forward in the hopes that it would get better, but if anything it got worse. The questions at the end of each chapter would sometimes be about something that was barely covered or skimmed over. The mixed use of the imperial measurement system and metric system was ridiculous. In the same sentence they would reference something in miles per hour and meters. And let me talk about the images. I was literally laughing at the irrelevance of some of the illustrations. A sunny day with this strangely superimposed rain gauge. Zero information in the illustration how the gauge actually works. I even thought of going back through the content to record all the egregious mistakes but I couldn’t bring myself to spend the time. It’s a shame because if they had spent just a bit more time on this, it had the potential to be a really good course. I was very disappointed as I was very excited to dive deep into the science of meteorology. I have found another course that is put together much better and I recommend that you do the same.