Meteorology and climatology

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

This book is intended to fill a gap in climate-change literature by providing a comprehensive regional study and identifying the overall adaptation challenges in a real-life context.

With the rapid increase of world population, the global water shortage is set to be the major crises of the twenty-first century; that is, population dynamics (growth, age distribution, urbanization and migration) create pressures on freshwater resources due to the increased water demands and pollution.

Explores how we should react to the political dilemmas of adapting the global economy to confront climate change.

Rosalie Bertell: "Kriegswaffe Planet Erde"Vorwort Dr.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of advanced research in the field of efficient, clean and renewable energy production, conversion and storage.

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

The Middle Holocene epoch (8,000 to 3,000 years ago) was a time of dramatic changes in the physical world and in human cultures.

Climate change mechanisms, impacts, risks, mitigation, adaption, and governance are widely recognized as the biggest, most interconnected problem facing humanity.

This book is the first volume of a new interdisciplinary series on "e;Impact Studies"e;.

Climate change on earth is having significant impacts on water resources management in Southeast Asia.

Multidisciplinary assessment of reactive nitrogen in the environment and its societal threats, for researchers, policy makers and the wider public.

This book includes contributions by leading experts across the globe with the first part of the book focusing on the analysis of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, examines COP26, and questions the political process in the US for the creation of policy for meaningful greenhouse gas emissions reductions.

To achieve goals for climate and economic growth, "e;negative emissions technologies"e; (NETs) that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the air will need to play a significant role in mitigating climate change.

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

The remarkable scientific story of how Earth became an oxygenated planetThe air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world.

The objects 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.

This book presents pioneering work on a range of innovative practices, experiments, and ideas that are becoming an integral part of urban climate change governance in the 21st century.

This is the first comprehensive science-based primer to highlight the unique ecosystem services provided by mangrove forests, and discuss how these services preserve the livelihoods of coastal populations.

Provides students with a solid foundation in climate science, to help understand global warming, natural climate variations, and climate models.

Proceedings of the 45th Session of the International Seminars on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies held in Erice, Sicily.

This book presents a current review of the science of monsoon research and forecasting.

This book brings together recent advances in the area of abiotic stress tolerance in various vegetables, fruit crops, plantation crops and tuber crops.

This book serves as a comprehensive and insightful guide to the strategies and mechanisms that underpin effective climate governance on a global scale.

The major emphasis of this book is on physical mechanisms and sources of the ULF/ELF natural electromagnetic fields noises.

Independent, rigorous and comprehensive analysis of the economic aspects of climate change.

This edited volume is based on the best papers accepted for presentation during the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018.

The book comprehensively investigates the relationship between critical urban form and fabric parameters and urban microclimate in the high-rise urban environment that prevails in Asian megacities such as Shanghai.

The analysis of polar ice cores has proven to be very instructive about past environmental conditions on the time scale of several climatic cycles, and recent drilling operations have provided information of great value for global change issues.

This book discusses feasibility of increasingly efficient energy use and supply from renewable sources, for researchers/advanced students.

Climate change highlights the challenges for long-term policy making in the face of persistent and irreducible levels of uncertainties.

South Florida is frequently cited as the part of the United State of America as most susceptible to the devastation accompanying sea level rise.

This book explores how social, economic and political factors set the stage for Hurricane Andrew by influencing who was prepared, who was hit the hardest, and who was most likely to recover.

Palaeoclimatology is presently experiencing a period of rapid growth of techniques and concepts.

A key reference for graduates and researchers in mountain meteorology, climatology and related disciplines.

Air Quality Monitoring and Advanced Bayesian Modeling introduces recent developments in urban air quality monitoring and forecasting.

This book presents the first simultaneous detection of neutrons and positrons after a terrestrial gamma-ray flash (TGF), a highest-energy transient phenomenon on the earth, triggered by a lightning discharge, based on innovative ground-based observations made in the Hokuriku area of Japan.

This book presents the best practices necessary to embed climate change adaptation in the planning processes among the Adriatic coastal communities.

This book is designed primarily for readers with an active interest in meteorology -- meteorologists, both professional and amateur, weather observers, and all those concerned with aviation in its various phases.

Freedom in the Anthropocene illuminates the Anthropocene from the perspective of critical theory.

This thesis confirms many changes, including sharp temperature rise, interannual variability of precipitation, extreme climate events and significant decreases of sunshine duration and wind speed in southwestern China, and systemically explores the action mechanism between large-scale atmospheric circulation systems, the complicated topography, human activities and regional climate changes.

This book provides all aspects of the physiology, stress responses and tolerance to abiotic stresses of the Brassicaceae plants.

This book is an interdisciplinary and accessible guide to environmental physics.

A key point in the book is the need to focus more seriously at the energy problem as the real problem behind global warming.

Meteorology of tropical West Africa: the Forecasters Handbook presents the science and practice of weather forecasting for an important region of the tropics.