Meteorology and climatology

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

The first premise of this book is that farmers need access to options for improving their situation.

This is an extended version of lectures that were held at the summer workshop Atmosphiirische Umweltforschung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Technik und Natur (At- mospheric Environmental Research between Technology and Nature) at the Techni- 16, 1996.

This innovative book investigates the concept of collapse in terms of our built environment, exploring the future transition of modern cities towards scenarios very different from the current promises of progress and development.

Many lights and other objects in the sky go unrecognised, or at least are little understood by those observing them.

This book studies climate change vulnerability in the Southern Part of the Indian Sundarbans Region, West Bengal, following the IPCC framework which highlights three prime components of vulnerability - exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity.

"e;The agricultural sky"e; is a dominant natural entity that has influenced, interacted with, and guided the evolution of crops, farming practices, and cropping systems.

This book elaborates on the physical principles of polarization remote sensing.

A major objective of this volume is to create and share knowledge about the socio-economic, political and cultural dimensions of climate change.

The lntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recently summarized the state ofthe art in research on climate change (Climate Change 1995).

An understanding of long-range transport of air pollutants in the atmosphere requires a knowledge of the relevant atmospheric dynamic and chemical processes active at the regional scale as well as the temporal and spatial distribution of emissions.

This book is a unified presentation of waves and flows occurring in the atmosphere, oceans, rivers, volcanoes and the mantle, for graduate students and researchers.

This is a comprehensive study of the quantum mechanical theory of pressure broadening and its application in atmospheric science.

In a compelling scholarly journey, this book unfolds the intricate narratives of human progress and its environmental repercussions catalyzed by the Industrial Revolution.

It has been widely recognized recently that in order to make scientific progress on large and important problems (eg, carbon dioxide effects on climate, viability of various sites for nuclear waste disposal etc.

This book presents the state-of-the-art in plant ecophysiology.

Cyclogenesis research is a central issue of meteorology and climatology.

The objective of this edited volume is to bring together a diverse set of analyses to document how small-scale societies responded to paleoenvironmental change based on the evidence of their lithic technologies.

With ever increasing trends in urban consumption and production practices, a call for action to mitigate Climate Change is often seen as a way to foster sustainable development.

This book highlights several opportunities that exist in satellite remote sensing of large-scale terrestrial hydrology.

This handbook covers the air quality/air pollution from the viewpoints of causing impacts on human/ecosystem health and climate change.

Climate, Change and Risk presents an overview of 'extreme' weather related events and our ability to cope with them.

This timely book explores the lessons learned in and potentials of injecting supercritical CO2 into depleted oil and gas reservoirs, in order to maximize both hydrocarbon recovery and the storage capacities of injected CO2.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction of mesoscale meteorology which is one of the important branches of meteorology, studying majorly mesoscale atmospheric systems.

This unique volume on wind energy features contributions from the world's leading research and development pioneers in the field of renewable energy.

A global history of the climate catastrophe caused by the Tambora eruptionWhen Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years.

International Encyclopaedia of Glob at Warming and Climate Change is very contemporary and focuses on the most serious problem the world is facing today, i.

The second in this series of three heliophysics texts, integrating the many aspects of space storms and their energetic radiation.

Climatology is the study of climate, scientifically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of time, Traditionally it is regarded as a branch of the atmospheric sciences and a subfield of physical geography; however, with recent increases in scope this is no longer appropriate, as it now includes aspects of oceanography and biogeochemistry.

This book discusses how climate change and heat islands are a main contributor to water related problems in urban areas in Kosice, Slovakia.

Atmospheric Science, Second Edition, is the long-awaited update of the classic atmospheric science text, which helped define the field nearly 30 years ago and has served as the cornerstone for most university curricula.

This volume is a collection of refereed papers based on the presentations made at the Third Conference on East Asia and Western Pacific Meteorology and Climate.

This volume analyses the energy industry for the following geographical units: America - divided into North America (Canada + USA) and  Central and South America -, the Middle East and South Asia, East Asia and Oceania.

This book aims to clarify the issue of groundwater in coastal saline environment management.

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

This book comprehensively describes essential research and projects on climate change and biodiversity.

This book examines the water-related impacts of climate change in the UNESCO Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve of the Mediterranean (IBRM) straddling Spain and Morocco.

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of the concepts and methodologies of data and modelling-driven hydrological analyses and their wide range of practical applications.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the latest research, technologies, and applications of health informatics to promote sustainability and address climate change.

This contributed volume offers a wide variety of cases exploring how humanity can adapt to a changing climate.

From mulching to greenhouses, the air space between the cover and the soil surface is the key to the classification of climates under cover.

This volume arises from the work of the International Geographical Union Working Group on Regional Hydrological Response to Climate Change and Global Warming under the chairmanship of Professor Changming Liu (1992-96).

From an historical perspective, this text presents an entirely non- mathematical introduction to astronomy from the first endeavours of the ancients to the current developments in research enabled by cutting edge technological advances.

This carefully researched book presents facts and arguments showing, beyond a doubt, that nuclear fusion power will not be technically feasible in time to satisfy the world's urgent need for climate-neutral energy.

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

An up-to-date summary of our understanding of the dynamics and thermodynamics of moist atmospheric convection, with a strong focus on recent developments in the field.

The question of whether the earth's climate is changing in some significant human-induced way remains a matter of much debate.

Global Climate Change and Cold Regions Ecosystems provides information on soil processes and the carbon cycle in cold ecoregions as well as the soil carbon pool and its fluxes in the soils of cold ecoregions.