Meteorology and climatology

Millionsof people are already affected by weather-related shocks every year in WestAfrica and climate change is highly likely to increase these threats.

Millionsof people are already affected by weather-related shocks every year in WestAfrica and climate change is highly likely to increase these threats.

One of the fundamental goals of earth system science research is to adopt a more holistic view of the earth as a 'system' comprising different domains.

This study presents a unique way to utilize the existing literature to explain the success of treaties in managing hydrologic stress.

The debate on how mankind should respond to climate change is diverse, as the appropriate strategy depends on global as well as local circumstances.

Emission inventory is basic for the understanding of environmental behaviors and potential effects of compounds, however, current inventories are often associated with relatively high uncertainties.

Through numerous color figures and tables, this book presents the most up-to-date knowledge on climate and environmental change in China.

One of the most dire consequences of global climate change for coral reefs is the increased frequency and severity of mass coral bleaching events.

Dust storms, produced by the removal of surface materials from the world's drylands, are a vital component of the environment.

This book highlights the efficiency of geoinformatics to promote sustainable human settlements in hilly regions of India.

This book highlights the efficiency of geoinformatics to promote sustainable human settlements in hilly regions of India.

The goal of this book is to provide a current overview of the impacts of climate change on tropical forests, to investigate past, present, and future climatic influences on the ecosystems with the highest biodiversity on the planet.

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of how aerosols form in the atmosphere through in situ processes as well as via transport from the surface (dust storms, seas spray, biogenic emissions, forest fires etc.

Various effects of the atmosphere have to be considered in space geodesy and all of them are described and treated consistently in this textbook.

This book demonstrates that the method, based on the ground polar cap magnetic observations is a reliable diagnosis of the solar wind energy coming into the magnetosphere Method for the uninterruptive monitoring of the magnetosphere state (i.

This updated and expanded second edition of a much lauded work provides a current overview of the impacts of climate change on tropical forests.

In this book the eminent authors analyse the ice cover variability in the Arctic Seas during the 20th and early 21st centuries.

Cyclogenesis research is a central issue of meteorology and climatology.

General circulation models (GCMs), which define the fundamental dynamics of atmospheric circulation, are nowadays used in various fields of atmospheric science such as weather forecasting, climate predictions and environmental estimations.

This book offers a readable and accessible account of the way in which the world's plant life partly controls its own environment.

This book represents the most comprehensive description of the physical properties including geometry, structure, spatio-temporal evolution and remotely sensed reflectance and emissivity in visible, IR and microwave ranges of one of the most important elements of disturbed sea surface - sea waves breaking.

This is the eleventh volume in the series Light Scattering Reviews, devoted to current knowledge of light scattering problems and both experimental and theoretical research techniques related to their solution.

This work offers a synthesis of the current approaches toward an integration of international trade and climate change, with a view to fostering potential improvements in policies and institutions affecting these.

This book opens new approach to the study of global environmental changes having unfourable character for peoples and other living systems.

Light Scattering Reviews (vol.

Marine environmental conditions such as storms, storm surges and wave heights are directly experienced by, for example, off-shore operations or coastal populations.

This atlas and reference resource assembles the latest research findings on the responsibility and obligation of human society for historical climate change.

This is the only extended textbook that covers in particular the physics of the upper polar atmosphere where the polar lights demonstrates the end product of a process taking place at extremely high latitudes between the solar wind and the upper polar atmosphere.

Developments in three-dimensional cloud radiation over the past few decades are assessed and distilled into this contributed volume.

An international team of over 150 experts provide up-to-date satellite imaging and quantitative analysis of the state and dynamics of the glaciers around the world, and they provide an in-depth review of analysis methodologies.

After the successful issue of two editions of the German book Applied Meteor- ogy - Micrometeorological basic I am happy that the Springer publishing house has agreed to publish an English edition for a probably much larger community of readers.

All aspects of our lives are influenced by the weather and especially severe weather events - such considerations tend to become more pertinent as such weather events may become more frequent with global warming.

From the Earth's Core to Outer Space focuses on four themes: (1) Evolving Earth's crust, (2) Changing Baltic Sea, (3) Climate Change, and (4) Planet Earth, third stone from Sun.

The book focusses on atmospheric processes, which directly affect human environments within the lowest 100-1000 meters of the atmosphere over regions of only a few kilometres in extent.

The book focusses on atmospheric processes, which directly affect human environments within the lowest 100-1000 meters of the atmosphere over regions of only a few kilometres in extent.

Drought Dynamics: Modeling and Assessment to Confront a Changing Climate synthesizes the latest research findings and practical insights from leading experts in the field.

This book focuses on climate change impacts and adaptation in Texas, a vital economic and ecologically important region in the United States.

This book focuses on climate change impacts and adaptation in Texas, a vital economic and ecologically important region in the United States.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Water and Environmental Engineering (iCWEE), held in Sydney, Australia, on November 19–21, 2025.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Water and Environmental Engineering (iCWEE), held in Sydney, Australia, on November 19–21, 2025.

This book 'Quantum AI-powered and HPC applications for sustainable environment and climate change' offers an in-depth exploration of how Quantum Artificial Intelligence (AI) -powered and High-Performance Computing (HPC) based technologies can revolutionize our approach to environmental sustainability and climate change mitigation.

This book discusses the impact of high-tropospheric ozone pollution and its interactions with other major abiotic stress factors, such as elevated carbon dioxide, nitric oxide, volatile organic carbon, UV radiation, heavy metal stress, drought, salinity on the crop production and the crop quality.

This book uses the author's personal narrative as a tool to explore environmental sociological thinking and broader societal issues.

This book discusses the impact of high-tropospheric ozone pollution and its interactions with other major abiotic stress factors, such as elevated carbon dioxide, nitric oxide, volatile organic carbon, UV radiation, heavy metal stress, drought, salinity on the crop production and the crop quality.

This book uses the author's personal narrative as a tool to explore environmental sociological thinking and broader societal issues.

This book 'Quantum AI-powered and HPC applications for sustainable environment and climate change' offers an in-depth exploration of how Quantum Artificial Intelligence (AI) -powered and High-Performance Computing (HPC) based technologies can revolutionize our approach to environmental sustainability and climate change mitigation.