📚 Weather & Meteorology

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Why the sky does what it does — fronts, pressure and storms, and the science that turns a chaotic atmosphere into a forecast.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject meteorology in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Discours de la méthode	René Descartes	1644	163
The atmosphere	Frederick K. Lutgens	1979	56
Meteorologica	Aristotle	1491	29
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society	Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain)	1873	28
Meteorology today	C. Donald Ahrens	1982	22
World Weather Watch	World Meteorological Organization.	1966	19
Smithsonian meteorological tables	Smithsonian Institution	1893	15
Boundary layer climates	T. R. Oke	1978	14
General meteorology	Horace Robert Byers	1937	13
Tables of temperature, relative humidity and precipitation for the world	Great Britain. Meteorological Office.	1958	13
Atmosphere, weather, and climate	Roger Graham Barry	1968	13
The Magic School Bus	Joanna Cole	1995	13
A treatise on meteorology	Elias Loomis	1868	12
Weather	Ralph Abercromby	1887	12
Weather for Dummies	John D. Cox	2000	12
Introduction to meteorology	Sverre Petterssen	1941	11
Wind	Jan DeBlieu	1998	11
The Weather Machine	Andrew Blum	2018	11
Meteorological glossary	Great Britain. Meteorological Office.	1918	10
Atmosphere, weather and climate	R. G. Barry	1968	10
Microphysics of clouds and precipitation	Hans R. Pruppacher	1899	9
Essentials of meteorology	C. Donald Ahrens	2008	9
Elements of meteorology	John Brocklesby	1848	8
Meteorology from the Encyclopaedia Britannica	John Frederick William Herschel	1861	8
Weather elements	Thomas A. Blair	1937	8
The Climate Near the Ground	Rudolf Geiger	1950	8
Meteorology	Joseph M. Moran	1986	8
Usborne Book of Weather Facts	Anita Ganeri	1987	8
Weather words and what they mean	Gail Gibbons	1990	8
Weather	Seymour Simon	1993	8

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 06 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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