Meteorology and scientific methods

Explain the atmosphere—and test the evidence.

General-reader weather books, a technical rainfall-validation method, probability, scientific reasoning, and simple computational experiments.

A four-book atmosphere series covering greenhouse gases, tropical weather, water, fronts, and storms.

A technical guide to verifying areal satellite rainfall estimates from sparse point gauges.

Probability, base rates, models, forecasts, rare events, and decisions under uncertainty.

Evidence, confidence, disagreement, and the discipline of revising beliefs.

A simple computational demonstration of adaptation through variation, selection, and inheritance.

Browse options, meteorology, probability, evidence, and scientific-method publications.