Meteorology and climatology

Energy drives the economy, economics informs policy, and policy affects social outcomes.

Anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions do not only warm our planet but also acidify our oceans.

This state-of-the-art compendium, combining theory with practical examples, looks at the entire biochar supply chain.

This book examines five rhetorical strategies used by the US coal industry to advance its interests in the face of growing economic and environmental pressures: industrial apocalyptic, corporate ventriloquism, technological shell game, hypocrite's trap, and energy utopia.

Advanced non-specialist textbook explaining the significance of past and contemporary environmental and climatic change.

Home to large numbers of people, sources of water, centres of tourism, and sensitive ecological zones, mountain environments share distinctive climactic characteristics.

This book is filled with didactic elements such as exercises, charts and case study examples.

A compact yet comprehensive self-study guide that explores the power of mathematics to help us understand complex atmospheric phenomena.

An introductory textbook on all aspects of climate system dynamics and modelling for students, scientists and professionals.

This book serves the purpose of showcasing some of the works in respect of applied research, field projects, and best practice to foster climate change adaptation across the region.

Air pollution originating from rapid industrialization, urbanization, population growth and economic development has disturbed the urban ecosystems of ecologically sensitive regions like the Indo-Burma hot spot, and they are under severe air pollution stress with limited resources to collect data on what is happening.

What do we mean by the tropics?

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date assessment of the key terrestrial components of the Arctic system, i.

Since The Little Ice Age was published in 1988, interest in climatic history has grown rapidly and research in the area has flourished.

The conservation of historic monuments, sites and structures constitutes an inter-professional discipline co-ordinating a range of aesthetic historic, scientific and technical methods.

This book provides an incisive and economic assessment of the global warming adaptation policy and programs carved out by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Green Climate Fund (GCF), by relying on the four scientific traditions that have been advanced on the economics of adaptation to climate change in agricultural and natural resource enterprises.

Provides unique synthesis of various modeling methodologies used to aid planning and operational decision making, for academic researchers and professionals.

This latest addition to the Studies in Geophysics series explores in scientific detail the phenomenon of lightning, cloud, and thunderstorm electricity, and global and regional electrical processes.

The objectives of the American Meteorological Society are "e;the development and dissemination of knowledge of meteorology in all its phases and applications, and the advancement of its professional ideals.

A guide for atmospheric and oceanic sciences courses primarily and also for students of applied mathematics, mechanical & aerospace engineering.

Atmosphere, Weather and Climate presents a comprehensive introduction to weather processes and climatic conditions around the world, their observed changes and projected future trends.

This book offers a complete overview of the measurement of precipitation from space, which has made considerable advancements during the last two decades.

In line with COP21 agreements, state-led climate change mitigation and adaptation actions are being undertaken to transition to carbon-neutral, green economies.

This volume examines the impact of and responses to historic earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the Azores.

This highly interdisciplinary volume brings together a carefully curated set of case studies examining complex systems with multiple time scales (MTS) across a variety of fields: materials science, epidemiology, cell physiology, mathematics, climatology, energy transition planning, ecology, economics, sociology, history, and cultural studies.

Today, predicting the impact of human activities on the earth's climate hinges on tracking interactions among phenomena of radically different dimensions, from the molecular to the planetary.

This book brings together current knowledge of terrestrial C sequestration in Central Asia.

Tropical Cyclones and Associated Impacts: A Global Perspective provides a one-stop-shop for readers interested in the impacts of tropical cyclones, capturing the convergence of knowledge across disciplines and fields.

This monograph offers a wide array of contemporary information on weather radar polarimetry and its applications.

A 24-hour practical guide to skywatching.

Reconstructing Earth s Climate History There has never been a more critical time for students to understand the record of Earth s climate history, as well as the relevance of that history to understanding Earth s present and likely future climate.

Unified treatment of physical principles of planetary climates for advanced students and researchers in atmospheric science, Earth and planetary science.

This book examines the role of the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in society.

The report reviews the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) and assesses how well the center is managing its holdings, serving its users, and supporting NOAA's mission.

The Antarctic Sector of the Pacific covers the area between Australia and South America south of about 45(deg)S.

This volume contains review articles and original results obtained in various fields of modern science using mathematical simulation methods.

This edited volume discusses the recent developments and current research questions in nonlinear and stochastic climate dynamics.

First published in 1966 these collected papers, written by the distinguished and visionary climatologist Hubert H.

This book discusses emerging contexts of global warming and climate change, agricultural vulnerability and adaptation from local to global scale.

The luminosity of the sun governs the temperatures of the planets.

For advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in atmospheric, oceanic, and climate science, Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics is an introductory textbook on the circulations of the atmosphere and ocean and their interaction, with an emphasis on global scales.

This book addresses the importance of cultural values, local knowledge and identity in building community resilience in place based contexts.

This book explores the dynamics of planetary and stellar fluid layers, including atmospheres, oceans, iron cores, and convective and radiative zones in stars, describing the different theoretical, computational and experimental methods used to study these problems in fluid mechanics, including the advantages and limitations of each method for different problems.

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Precipitation Science: Measurement, Remote Sensing, Microphysics and Modelingaddresses the latest key concerns for researchers in precipitation science, mainly observing, measuring, modeling and forecasting.

Many scientists either working on the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) problem or its many applications have not been trained in both the equatorial ocean and atmospheric dynamics necessary to understand it.

An accessible overview of the statistical analysis methods which can be used to investigate climate extremes and analyse potential risk.

For advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in atmospheric, oceanic, and climate science, Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics is an introductory textbook on the circulations of the atmosphere and ocean and their interaction, with an emphasis on global scales.

Caves serve as unique repositories for geologic, biologic, and anthropologic information.

This book is composed of 12 review papers invited for the Palmen Memorial Symposium on Extratropical Cyclones held in Helsinki, Finland, 29 August - 2 September 1988.