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An in-depth look at barometers and applications of barometric pressure
by the author of Modern Marine Weather.
The barometer remains the most important tool for evaluating and predicting the weather. This book explains why knowing accurate values of the atmospheric pressure can improve this process and benefit all applications.
Ways to evaluate and calibrate aneroid and electronic barometers using readily available data by Internet or telephone are clearly described. Tactical applications to marine navigation are covered. The book also includes worldwide average monthly pressures and their standard deviations
With the exception of trained meteorological crews, barometers in the past were used at sea primarily to learn if the pressure was going up or down, and whether it was doing this rapidly or slowly. And from this we made an educated guess of a likely consequence, usually in conjunction with other observations. Outside of professional marine use, little effort was made to know the true pressure for several reasons. We did not know what to do with it if we had it, and more often we could not get it if we wanted it, because most barometers were not calibrated.
This has changed. We now have many valuable applications of accurate pressure, and we also have affordable ways to get it, and we have convenient ways to prove our instruments work properly.
The main goal of this book is to show how all this comes about, and to give more insight into this fascinating, venerable instrument that has been with us for 150 years. Another goal is to introduce users to the new breed of electronic devices that are in the process of revolutionizing how we do weather at sea. We also re-introduce mariners to several classic aneroid instruments that are highly accurate and tested at sea for over 70 years, and why we benefit from having both a calibrated aneroid and an electronic barometer on board.
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"After the thermometer, the barometer is most fundamental of weather instruments, and The Barometer Handbook takes the reader on an entertaining and informative trip through the history and use of this critical tool and provides a look at how barometric pressure effects climate and our weather." — Peter Isler, two-time America's Cup winning navigator.
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"Like a rock star, David Burch is producing hit after hit! His latest piece, The Barometer Handbook is a first. It is the only comprehensive book on barometers that a mariner can refer to that will ensure how important it is to not only have a barometer when coastal or blue water cruising, but to be able to maintain and update its accuracy. The Barometer Handbook is the second book alongside his Modern Marine Weather that can serve as booksends for Bowditch." — Lee Chesneau, senior marine forecaster, Ocean Prediction Center, NWS (Retired).
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"This is great stuff. It's the kind of book I wish I had when I started my career." — Christopher Hampel, Calibration Scientist, Barometry, Weather and Environmental Monitoring, Environment Canada.
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"Yet another brilliant book from the hand and mind of Dr David Burch. I loved reading this book." — Kenn Batt, Manager, Canberra Meteorological Office, Bureau of Meteorology, Canberra ACT Australia.
- Sales Rank: #468152 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-01-20
- Released on: 2013-01-20
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
The Barometer Handbook takes the reader on an entertaining and informative trip through the history and use of this critical tool and provides a look at how barometric pressure effects climate and our weather.
-- Peter Isler, two-time America's Cup winning navigator.
The book is a gold mine, and a fascinating one at that.
-- Jeff Weaver, BC, Canada
It belongs in any shipboard library and is a must have companion for Burch's Modern Marine Weather published in 2008.
-- Ocean Navigator Magazine, Nov/Dec, 2009
"Of general interest is the impact of air pressure on health and sport. Anyone into outdoor pursuits will be drawn to the altimetry section."
-- Bob McDavitt, MetService (NZ)
"This is great stuff. It's the kind of book I wish I had when I started my career."
-- Christopher Hampel, Environment Canada
"Yet another brilliant book from the hand and mind of Dr David Burch. I loved reading this book."
-- Kenn Batt, BOM Australia
From the Back Cover
Also from David Burch:
Celestial Navigation - A Complete Home Study Course
Radar For Mariners
Emergency Navigation
Fundamentals of Kayak Navigation
The Barometer Handbook
How to use Plastic Sextants - with application to metal sextants and a review of sextant piloting
The Star Finder Book - A guide to the many uses of the 2102-D Star Finder
About the Author
David Burch, PhD, FRIN, is the Director of Starpath School of Navigation, which after 26,000 classroom students since 1979 switched to all online training in 2008. He is the author of 13 books and hundreds of magazine articles. He received the Institute of Navigation's Superior Achievement Award for outstanding performance as a practicing navigator. He is Fellow of the US Institute of Navigation as well as a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation in London. He has extensive ocean sailing experience covering much of the globe, and once held an elapsed time record for the Victoria to Maui Yacht Race that lasted for 16 years. On the academic side, he is a past Fulbright Scholar with a PHD in physics.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
A Gold Mine
By J. Weaver
Few are the books that address the very heart of a wide-ranging subject; even fewer in my opinion are those that are so well organized and researched, and written by an acknowledged expert in an eminently interesting and readable style, that they carry us effortlessly down the road to an excellent grounding in the subject. And perhaps even more importantly, bridge the gap between theory and practicality, between mere interesting facts and usefulness. I find The Barometer Handbook to be just such a book.
I am an avid sailor, an airline pilot by trade, and was briefly acquainted with the author's reputation and several of his books when I found this one, newly published in 2009. With interests in navigation and meteorology, I picked the book up hopeful that it would be well written and informative.
It is more, very much more. I could not put it down, and it cost me a couple of very late nights. If you have any interest at all in the weather, whether just casual or from a more academic perspective, this book is required reading. If you are an interested sailor or pilot, living and working in the weather and very much concerned with the forecast, put it at the very top of your list. Or if instead you have an interest in the barometer as an instrument - its development, its workings, its modern construction and uses - you cannot do without this book.
Many of us know that atmospheric pressure and its measurement are at the heart of all meteorology. But it becomes obvious in reading the book that it would be a great mistake to assume that having a simple barometer and knowing how to use it are of little value in modern times, given the easy availability over the internet of weather charts with actual and predicted frontal systems, winds, and pressure readings for nearly any area on earth.
It is no accident that you will find an accurate barometer on every ship, whether military or civilian. The instrument is clearly no mere holdover from sailing ship days, nor a quaint decoration. For weather charts and predictions are one thing: actual conditions are another. The barometer allows you to judge the accuracy of the forecasts, past and present, as well as help you see and prepare for what is coming to your specific location, which may well be quite different than the forecast for your general area. Mr. Burch is very convincing in his assertion that a blind reliance on technology is in no way a substitute for acquiring and understanding how to use your own information. I am convinced that no tool is better suited for this than a good barometer, and The Barometer Handbook to explain how to use it.
It is the author's unspoken enthusiasm for the subject and his evident dedication that make it clear just how useful this knowledge is to us. Excellent background information make up the first two chapters - Introduction and Atmospheric Pressure; the next two are Reading and Care of Barometers and Barometer Calibration, and these four chapters alone are worth the cost of the book, giving an in-depth understanding of the instrument and its background. These are followed by Barometers & Weather Forecasting, the Role of Accurate Pressure in Marine Weather, and Other Roles of Atmospheric Pressure - all fabulous reading, and true to the author's other books, expertly informative. Barometer Selection - invaluable - then Altimeters, and Worldwide Monthly Mean Pressures are the final three chapters, with even more information at your fingertips in the Appendices. The book is a gold mine, and a fascinating one at that.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
A must have book
By Kenn Batt
Yet another brilliant book from the hand and mind of Dr David Burch. I loved reading this book.
Having read a number of books on barometry over the years, I have to admit that this book has to be the most useful particularly from a weather practitioner's perspective. In fact there is a bit for everyone who has an interest in atmospheric pressure and weather in general.
Commencing with a "potted history" of barometry and the principles of atmospheric pressure in Chapers One and Two. David moves into the " nuts and bolts" of pressure and barometers in Chapters Three, Four, Five and Six. I particularly enjoyed the chapters on calibration and the role of accurate pressure in marine weather. Barometer calibration has long been an overlooked side of the barometer equation.
The contents of Chapter Seven are an eye opener for readers interested in the other roles of pressure. From the medical to the sporting side, David has done a great deal of research in order to give the reader a better understanding of the role of atmospheric pressure in areas other than weather forecasting.
The outstanding chapter would have to be Chapter Eight on Barometer Selection. This would appeal to anyone who has to make the ultimate decision on what barometer would be the best value for money for their vessel or home. I didn't realise until reading this chapter just what a wonderful instrument the Fischer aneroid barometer is for the money that I paid for it from Starpath.
In Chapter Nine, David covers the subject of altimetry in great detail. This chapter will of course appeal to the aviator and to the reader who is after a well written, accurate and easy to understand explanation of this complex topic.
An up-to-date treatment of average mean sea level pressure charts is presented in Chapter Ten. This work has long been awaited outside of the world of the professional meteorologist working for a National Weather Service. David presents this in a way that any reader can understand and use.
In Further Reading, David presents a listing of publications that are relatively easy to obtain and wide-ranging which caters for the tastes of all readers.
The Appendices are first rate and would be extremely useful to all "users of pressure"
In all I loved reading this book. David Burch is to be congratulated on yet another first class publication. This book will be the ideal companion to his book Modern Marine Weather. This Handbook will appeal to anyone who is interested in the subject of barometry.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Vital for calibrating new or old barometers
By Carlos Gibran
Great book! Vital details about how to set and calibrate a barometer. This is something that I struggled with in the past because i never understood how to do it.
I also never realized how powerful a weather tool the digital barometer/temp/humidity units are. Way more accurate for predicting the weather than just a stand alone barometer.
Also good descriptions and analysis of both analog and digital barographs. Sadly a good digital barograph will set you back hundreds of dollars, (mind you a good analog barometer will also do that... ;o)
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