Meteorology and climatology

The Routledge Handbook of Applied Climate Change Ethics is a powerful reference source for the identification and exploration of the underlying ethical issues in climate change law and policy.

The Routledge Handbook of Applied Climate Change Ethics is a powerful reference source for the identification and exploration of the underlying ethical issues in climate change law and policy.

Explores the importance of policy evaluation in polycentric climate governance using the European Union as an example.

2045 soll es so weit sein.

Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides current science to support evidence-based action.

Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability.

Building water resilience is the single biggest challenge in a changing global climate.

Was sollte, könnte, müsste man für die Umwelt tun?

Explores the importance of policy evaluation in polycentric climate governance using the European Union as an example.

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

This volume, which is rooted in biogeophysical studies, addresses conceptions of political action in the Anthropocene and the tension between a desire to accomplish the Promethean project of modernity and a post-Promethean approach.

Synoptic Analysis and Forecasting: An Introductory Toolkit, Second Edition provides a bridge between early meteorology courses and more advanced courses in synoptic-dynamic analysis.

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 describes observed features of urban climate and its long-term variations as well as the relationship of climate to heat stroke in Japan, based on observational data and statistical analyses.

At first grade, your child is expected to know all the continents of the world.

Population genomics has provided unprecedented opportunities to unravel the mysteries of marine organisms in the oceans' depths.

Air pollution is a global hazard.

Mit ihrem geozentrischen Weltbild, bei dem sich die Sonne und das Universum um die Erde drehen, stellten die Mächtigen und Einflussreichen des mittelalterlichen Europas den Mensch, bzw.

Nie war eine Inventur der Energiedebatte nötiger als heute.

Manche Beiträge zum Klimaschutz sind nicht nur sinnlos, sondern kontraproduktiv, sagt Hans-Werner Sinn.

A comprehensive overview of the climate crisis and need for a renewable energy transition, and the current blocks to progress.

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

Climate change can reasonably be expected to increase the frequency and intensity of a variety of potentially disruptive environmental eventsslowly at first, but then more quickly.

A comprehensive overview of the climate crisis and need for a renewable energy transition, and the current blocks to progress.

This book examines international climate change mitigation and adaptation regimes with the aim of proposing fair climate stability implementation strategies.

This book poses the question of whether identifiable individual-level attributes (e.

This book offers an exercise in theoretical planetology, presenting five different scenarios to assess the evolution of habitable conditions on Mars to assess planetary terraforming potential and to give insight into the ongoing search for habitable exoplanets.

Precipitating atmospheric convection is fundamental to the Earth's weather and climate.

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

How to progress climate science to be policy-relevant and actionable?

This book focuses on environmental footprints that have attracted considerable interest and discussion within academia, policy makers and the public as a tool to assess anthropogenic effects on the environment.

This book reviews taxing choices to protect the local and global environment and preserve and sustain natural resources.

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.

This book explores the opportunities and barriers within the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) framework of the Paris Agreement for low-carbon technology diffusion.

According to UN estimates, approximately nearly half of the world's population now lives in cities and that figure is expected to rise to almost 70% by 2050.

Although there is great debate about how work is changing, there is a clear consensus that changes are fundamental and ongoing.

Launched jointly in 1997 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the JapanAerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) is a satellite missionthat placed a unique suite of instruments, including the first precipitation radar, in space.

The ocean is a fundamental component of the earth's biosphere.

Launched jointly in 1997 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the JapanAerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) is a satellite missionthat placed a unique suite of instruments, including the first precipitation radar, in space.

To better understand our climate system, it is important that we have climate data records (CDRs)time series of measurements of sufficient length, consistency, and continuity to determine climate variability and changethat possess the accuracy, longevity, and stability to facilitate credible climate monitoring.

The stresses associated with climate change are expected to be felt keenly as human population grows to a projected 9 billion by the middle of this century, increasing the demand for resources and supporting infrastructure.

Tide gauges show that global sea level has risen about 7 inches during the 20th century, and recent satellite data show that the rate of sea-level rise is accelerating.

Climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks forand in many cases is already affectinga broad range of human and natural systems.

The global scientific and policy community now unequivocally accepts that human activities cause global climate change.

The ocean is an integral component of the Earth's climate system.

The US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is a collection of 13 Federal entities charged by law to assist the United States and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global change.