*本书有口袋版本以及最新的卡牌版本！

*本书的最原版在2008年出版，已售出超过10万册！

*新增12种云，这些云是世界气象组织近期正式认可的

*本书包含有关气候变化和人造云（例如飞机尾迹）的最新信息

这本权威的观云指南将带你了解如何透过解读云来理解天空。自古以来，云朵就令人着迷，它们转瞬即逝的壮丽和无穷无尽的变化，为科学家和梦想家们提供了丰富的思考素材。云朵的形状多种多样，但基本形态却有几种。在这本权威的云朵和天空指南中，Richard Hamblyn将为你介绍所有不同的云朵类型。《英国国家气象局：观云之书》将帮助你识别各种云朵、天空和自然现象。你还可以追踪它们随时间推移可能发生的变化，并预测它们对你所经历的天气的影响。

本书由世界顶级天气预报机构——英国气象局联合出版，涵盖了与云的起源和发展相关的一切知识。无论你看到的是巨大的积雨云，还是细小的层云；无论是常见的云朵，还是转瞬即逝的罕见景象，这本便捷的参考指南都能让你获得专业的指导，使你的观云之旅更加充实而有意义。本书不仅能帮助您识别任何时刻可能出现的各种云朵和天空形态，还能追踪它们随时间推移可能发生的变化，从而预测天气模式。这本经典畅销书的新版内容全面更新，新增了12种世界气象组织近期正式认可的云类型。其中许多云此前只有非正式名称，但新的拉丁文分类使它们被纳入官方认可的全球气象术语体系。新版还收录了英国气象局首席气象学家撰写的新序言，以及关于气候变化和云在塑造地球未来状况中所扮演角色的更新章节。《英国国家气象局：观云之书》详细介绍了云分类的历史，并配有来自世界各地的精美图片。你可以随身携带，在散步时阅读，也可以放在花园里，随时欣赏天空美景。这本云分类指南将是你所需的一切。 

关于作者：

Richard is an environmental writer and historian, with a particular interest in the cultural cross-currents that flow between the sciences and the humanities. He was born in 1965 and grew up in Truro, Cornwall; Kingston, Jamaica; and Hastings, East Sussex.

He was educated at the Universities of Essex and Cambridge, where he wrote a doctoral dissertation on eighteenth-century topographical and geological writing. Richard's books include The Invention of Clouds, which won the 2002 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Terra: Tales of the Earth, a collection of stories about natural disasters; and The Cloud Book and Extraordinary Clouds, both published in association with the (UK) Met Office. Data Soliloquies (2010) is a collection of essays and artworks on the theme of visualising climate change, that he co-wrote and designed with the digital artist, Martin John Callanan, during their terms as writer and artist in residence at the UCL Environment Institute.

Richard is currently a lecturer in creative writing at Birkbeck, University of London, and is working on a book of (mostly) true stories about (mostly) made-up landscapes.