Meteorology and climatology

This book is the first book that looks at both the politics of maintaining the trajectory toward humanity's final hundred years and the politics of those final hundred years.

This book describes selected problems in contemporary spectroscopy in the context of quantum mechanics and statistical physics.

Marine mammals attract human interest - sometimes this interest is benign or positive - whale watching, conservation programmes for whales, seals, otters, and efforts to clear beaches of marine debris are seen as proactive steps to support these animals.

This IPCC Special Report provides the latest comprehensive assessment of the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate.

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Originally published in 2002, Mountain Biodiversity deals with the biological richness, function and change of mountain environments.

This book presents the concepts and tools of ice mechanics, together with examples of their application in the fields of glaciology, climate research and civil engineering in cold regions.

Das vorliegende Buch verfolgt zwei Ziele.

This volume discusses emerging contexts of agricultural and ecosystem resilience in Sub Saharan Africa, as well as contemporary technological advances that have influenced African livelihoods.

The Global Change Ecology and Wetlands book series will highlight the latest research from the world leaders in the field of climate change in wetlands.

The work is aimed at the review of hot topics in modern light scattering and radiative transfer.

This book analyzes the experiences of energy, sustainability and resilience issues from different Asian countries and puts forward a futuristic vision of an energy sector for sustained development.

This Second Edition of An Introduction to Atmospheric Radiation has been extensively revised to address the fundamental study and quantitative measurement of the interactions of solar and terrestrial radiation with molecules, aerosols, and cloud particles in planetary atmospheres.

Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds and Climate Change highlights the relationship between climate change and biogenic VOC and the impact they have on each other.

Global Physical Climatology, Second Edition, provides an introduction to the science of climate and climate change that spans the atmosphere, ocean, and land surface, and the interactions among them.

Global climate change - rapid, substantial and human induced - may have radical consequences for life on earth.

This book describes the importance of water resources for socio-economic and ecological development including geomorphic and ecological environments.

This report reviews documents on acute exposure guideline levels (AEGLs) for nerve agents GA (tabun), GB (sarin), GD (soman), GD, and VX, sulfur mustard, diborane, and methyl isocyanate.

This book provides a comparative analysis of policy instruments designed to respond to climate change, drought and floods in connection with agricultural producers and their communities in four case study areas: Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada; Coquimbo, Chile; and Mendoza, Argentina.

The third of these texts focuses on the sunspot cycle and its effects on space weather and planetary climates.

This pivot describes the ups and downs of Norwegian High North politics since the end of the Cold War.

About 450 million people live in the 18 States that set up the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

The East Asian summer monsoon has complex space and time structures that are distinct from the South Asian summer monsoon.

This book discusses options for an improved compliance system under the Paris Climate Agreement by addressing  current weaknesses.

This book presents the theory and applications of radiative transfer for graduate students and researchers in meteorology and related sciences.

The earth's cryosphere, which includes snow, glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, ice shelves, sea ice, river and lake ice, and permafrost, contains about 75% of the earth's fresh water.

The 3rd edition of Mesoscale Meteorological Modeling is a fully revised resource for researchers and practitioners in the growing field of meteorological modeling at the mesoscale.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the securitisation of climate change in the US, Germany and Mexico and offers a rethinking of securitisation theory.

Over 100 authors present 25 contributions on the impacts of global change on terrestrial ecosystems including:key processes of the earth system such as the CO2 fertilization effect, shifts in disturbances and biome distribution, the saturation of the terrestrial carbon sink, and changes in functional biodiversity,ecosystem services such the production of wheat, pest control, and carbon storage in croplands, and sensitive regions in the world threaten by rapid changes in climate and land use such as high latitudes ecosystems, tropical forest in Southeast Asia, and ecosystems dominated by Monsoon climate.

This book examines the deep connection Australians have with their climate to understand contemporary views on human-induced climate change.

Nineteenth-Century Energies explores the idea of 'energy', a concept central to new directions in interdisciplinary studies today.

Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences, Fourth Edition, continues the tradition of trying to meet the needs of students, researchers and operational practitioners.

This thesis presents research focusing on the improvement of high-resolution global black carbon (BC) emission inventory and application in assessing the population exposure to ambient BC.

This book critically examines the environmental hazards posed by global warming with regard to future food security, which will depend on a combination of stresses, both biotic and abiotic, imposed by climate change; variability of weather within a growing season; and the development of cultivars that are more sensitive to different ambient conditions.

This book discusses what it means for cities to work toward and achieve resilience in the face of climate change.

This book is aimed at description of recent progress in radiative transfer, atmospheric remote sensing, snow optics,  and light scattering.

The report reviews NARSTO's recent report on atmospheric science issues associated with management of airborne particulate matter (PM) to achieve air quality standards.

In the micrometeorological literature, reference is sometimes made to the 'Businger-Dyer Profiles' or the 'Dyer-Businger profiles/relations' without referring to the origin of these relations.

The cryosphere encompasses the Earth's snow and ice masses.

This book examines the role of acts of choice in classical and intuitionistic mathematics.

This book sets out to give a rigorous mathematical description of the greenhouse effect through the theory of infrared atmospheric emission.

Air Pollution Calculations: Quantifying Pollutant Formation, Transport, Transformation, Fate and Risks, Second Edition enhances the systems science aspects of air pollution, including transformation reactions in soil, water, sediment and biota that contribute to air pollution.

Climate Change and Extreme Events uses a multidisciplinary approach to discuss the relationship between climate change-related weather extremes and their impact on human lives.

This book presents a collection of articles concerning key topics which examine the impacts of climate change and variability on agriculture.

This doctoral thesis applies measurements of ground deformation from satellite radar using their potential to play a key role in understanding volcanic and magmatic processes throughout the eruption cycle.

How you can solve the climate, energy and air pollution crises, without relying on ''miracle technologies''.