The Barometer Handbook: A Modern Look at Barometers and Applications of Barometric Pressure

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)

This is one of those books that I keep picking up and randomly open to a section and read and then at a later time, reread. I keep returning and learning. If you're serious about the subject of barometers, air pressure, and weather, this is the best volume and presentation on the subject to purchase. My sincerest thanks to the author David Burch.

It’s a book

A fairly detailed overview of atmospheric pressure and its measurement.

Excellent technical guide to barometer both analog and digital.

I found this book helpful in describing some key principles of barometric pressure and weather. I have wanted to understand air pressure better for weather forecasting and select a barometer. This book provided the guidance for both.

Good, very informative.

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.

Wenn man der englischen Sprache mächtig ist, gibt es kaum ein besseres Buch über die Materie. Nicht nur die Theorie wird umfassend behandelt, sondern auch sehr viele praktische Überlegungen und Hilfen werden angeboten. Man lernt de facto seine eigene Wetterprognose zu erstellen unter zu Hilfenahme eines guten Barometers und der Beobachtung aus Wind (Richtung und Stärke) sowie Wolkenstruktur am Himmel. Wetter karten sind eine Synopsis von Beobachtungen und die lokale Prognose ist meistens "interpoliert". Mit eigenen Wetterdaten kann man die Lücken füllen und die Validität der Regionalen Prognose überprüfen. Das Buch richtet sich im speziellen auf Seefahrer. Für interessierte Englisch Kenner eine unbedingte Empfehlung!

Everything you could want to know about atmospheric pressure and the measurement thereof. if you are interested in weather this is the book for you/ It presents the facts in a clear, understandable read.