Meteorology and climatology

This book is the third edition of a book series on the state of the science of monsoon research and forecasting.

The conservation authority movement in Ontario is world renowned, and professionals and parliamentarians from other provinces, the United States, the United Kingdom, and other parts of the owrld have come to study it.

First book to explore dramatic amplification of global warming underway in cities for students, policy makers and the general reader.

This book describes the iterative steps that were successfully undertaken to develop adaptation measures to climate change in two Vietnamese provinces.

Extreme weather and climate change aggravate the frequency and magnitude of disasters.

This book provides information on sustainable water resource management strategies that present innovative ways to conserve both quality and quantity of water in developing countries.

This book calls for a collective strengthening of the progressive dimension of climate action in the face of continued myopic governmental response.

This book documents the advantages and limitations of various electricity generation methods.

Chile is a privileged country in terms of water resources, with an average annual runoff of approximately 50,000 m3/person.

This book brings together a series of chapters that provides updated information on adaptation practices against climate change in agriculture and livestock.

Climate change is defining structural modifications that affect the economy and the financial system.

Social and natural scientists often are called upon to produce, or participate, in the pro- duction of forecasts.

The chapters in this section place the problems of vegetation and climate interactions in semi-arid regions into the context which recur throughout the book.

Mongolia is an expansive land-locked country, tilted by tectonic forces to the North, that experiences extremes of continental climate.

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

This book reviews the principles of Doppler radar and emphasizes the quantitative measurement of meteorological parameters.

This book presents information on common-to-rare organisms from around the world that inhabit freshwater habitats.

This book presents selected papers from the 3rd Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction - Expanding the Platform for Bridging Science and Policy Making, which was held at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Uji Campus from 19 to 21 March 2017.

This book reviews the principles of Doppler radar and emphasizes the quantitative measurement of meteorological parameters.

This second edition explores some of the latest techniques used to provide forecasts for a wide range of water-related applications in areas such as floods, droughts, water resources and environmental impacts.

The objective of the present edited book is to encompass studies from both developed and developing countries of Asia, Africa Europe, and Americas, to understand and present a comparative scenario of the climate change and other environmental determinants of health and disease in geographically diversified countries.

The content of this book are lectures and research papers presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on -Chemistry of the Unpolluted and Polluted Troposphere-held from September 28 to October 10, 1981, on the Island of Corfu, Greece.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

 Climate change-related effects and aftermaths of natural disasters, such as Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, have wreaked havoc on local peoples' lives and livelihoods, especially in impoverished coastal communities.

Dieses Buch ist aus einer zweisemestrigen Vorlesung über die Physik der Atmosphäre im Rahmen des Faches Umweltphysik and der Universität Heidelberg hervorgegangen.

This volume presents a unique interdisciplinary approach, drawing on expertise in both the natural and social sciences.

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Experts in climate and water sciences from Canada, the United States, Brazil, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, France, Serbia, and other European countries and the UNESCO gathered at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts on the occasion of the 130th birthday anniversary of the geophysicist Milutin Milankovitch.

This multidisciplinary handbook explores concrete case studies which illustrate how sustainability science and research can contribute to the realization of the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The book is structured into six core parts.

Complete coverage of air pollution from its sources to its health and environmental impacts, for advanced students and researchers.

The economic paradigms currently dominating the world are not sustainable.

The public depends on competent risk assessment from the federal government and the scientific community to grapple with the threat of pollution.

This book assesses the vulnerability impacts of climate change on food security by examining a 50 years scenario (2015- 2065) and following a top-down approach.

This book describes a simple yet innovative method for performing Raman spectroscopy of samples submerged under liquid nitrogen.

The purpose of this publication is to elucidate the biological aspect of the abiotic stress response from the field to the molecular level in horticultural plants.

This book explores interpretations of alienation from nature in relation to a broad range of environmental issues.

Winner of the 2000 Texas Review Fiction Prize Set in Galveston during the 1900 storm, the most devastating natural disaster in the history of the United States, this sweeping novel follows the fates of several richly drawn characters.

This book highlights the application of Geographical Information System (GIS) and nature based algorithms to solve the problems of water and water based renewable energy resources.

This book provides a critical theoretical framework for understanding the implementation and development of smart cities as innovation drivers, with long-term effects on productivity, livability, and the sustainability of specific initiatives.

Global climate change is one of America's most significant long-term policy challenges.

In this second edition, the authors present new developments in the sustainability discussion and argue that a new understanding of sustainability is needed if we are to truly serve future generations ecologically, economically, and equitably.

The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) was founded in 1992 as a "e;Blue List"e; research institute, with the Federal Ministry for Education, Science, Research and Technology and the Ministry for Science, Research and Culture of the federal state of Brandenburg each provid- ing half ofthe funding.

This volume calls upon over a dozen Indus observers to imagine a scenario for the Indus basin in which transboundary cooperation over water resources overcomes the insecurity arising from water dependence and scarcity.

Meeting the world's food security challenge will require a multi-national, collaborative effort to integrate the best research from science, engineering and socioeconomics so that technological advances can bring benefits where they are most needed.

Comprehensive review of effects of climate variability on hydrological and human systems in the Holocene.

Remote Sensing plays a key role in monitoring the various manifestations of global climate change.

We review using iodine incorporated in calcium carbonate (including biogenic) minerals as a proxy for dissolved oxygen in seawater.