Meteorology and climatology

In line with COP21 agreements, state-led climate change mitigation and adaptation actions are being undertaken to transition to carbon-neutral, green economies.

TheHandbook of Meteorology gives specialists and non-specialists alike a clear understanding of the way our weather functions.

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This book aims to integrate climate mitigation and adaptation tools into conventional urban planning.

A guide for atmospheric and oceanic sciences courses primarily and also for students of applied mathematics, mechanical & aerospace engineering.

Understanding, modeling and prediction of mesoscale processes in the atmosphere, ocean and environmental systems, have gained importance in the last decade or so.

This is a textbook for non-atmospheric specialists who work in the coastal zone.

Learn how the climate can affect crop production!

Climate extremes often imply significant impacts on human and natural systems, and these extreme events are anticipated to be among the potentially most harmful consequences of a changing climate.

This book discusses different aspects of water resources, ranging from hydrology and modeling to management and policy responses.

Ice Caves synthesizes the latest research on ice caves from around the world, bringing to light important information that was heretofore buried in various reports, journals, and archives largely outside the public view.

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.

Originally published in 1990, The Biogeography of the British Isles is devoted to the biogeography of the British Isles and surrounding shelf seas.

This book will give you a practical overview of several methods and approaches for designing mobile technologies and conducting mobile user research, including how to understand behavior and evaluate how such technologies are being (or may be) used out in the world.

The book is a collection of the lectures delivered during the 7th International Summer School on Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ISSAOS) titled "e;Integrated Ground-Based Observing Systems Applications for Climate, Meteorology, and Civil Protection"e;.

Tropical cyclones are topic that is not appropriately known to the public at large, but climate change has been on the public's mind since the last decade and a concern that has peaked in the new millennium.

In the past decade, there has been a substantial increase of grid-feeding photovoltaic applications, thus raising the importance of solar electricity in the energy mix.

A gripping journey through the icy regions of our changing planetFrom the Arctic Ocean and ice sheets of Greenland, to the glaciers of the Andes and Himalayas, to the great frozen desert of Antarctica, The White Planet takes readers on a spellbinding scientific journey through the shrinking world of ice and snow to tell the story of the expeditions and discoveries that have transformed our understanding of global climate.

This book explains how a former net food exporting Nepal has become a net food importing country due to a lack of an integrated system-wide approach to planning and governance of agriculture and natural resources.

Engage Students in Learning About Atmospheric Processes Understanding Weather and Climate illustrates meteorology and climatology using everyday occurrences and inspired technology tutorials to engage students in learning about atmospheric processes and patterns.

This book provides a systematic introduction to the debate on historical emissions and climate change, for students, researchers and policymakers.

This book provides an up-to-date synthesis of the understanding of the interaction between the emission of nitrogen, its deposition and impact on the most important components of natural and semi-natural ecosystems.

This book presents an exploration of linkages among soil-water, agriculture, and climate change with a special focus on thematic areas for assessment, mitigation, and management of natural resources under climate change conditions.

A stimulating, interdisciplinary contribution to the debate on management of global environmental change.

This book offers perspective on climate change impacts on developing nations from scholars within those nations, primarily focusing on agriculture.

A Vital Explanation of Water Law and PolicyBecause demand for and access to quality water far exceeds the current supply, it is increasingly critical to understand the state and federal laws and policies that govern water rights.

This volume reflects the current state of scientific knowledge about natural climate variability on decade-to-century time scales.

People want to create a better world and planet; however, where, and how to start remains the question.

Public and media interest in the climate change issue has increased exponentially in recent years.

This collection of articles captures and disseminates contemporary perspectives on climate change from an Indian context.

This book explores how the world community will respond to the unfolding humanitarian crisis caused by climate change.

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.

Home to large numbers of people, sources of water, centres of tourism, and sensitive ecological zones, mountain environments share distinctive climactic characteristics.

This book focuses on the recent trends in carbon management and up-to-date information on different carbon management strategies that lead to manage increasing concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

The background This volume contains the proceedings of the first International symposium on "e;Non-C0 Greenhouse Gases: Why and How to 2 Control?

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

Low temperatures, wind-chill, snow, sea ice, and permafrost have been primary characteristics of Canada's northern and alpine environments during the past two million years.

International climate change policy can be broadly divided into two periods: A first period, where a broad consensus was reached to tackle the risk of global warming in a coordinated global effort, and a second period, where this consensus was finally framed into a concrete policy.

This book focuses on motions of incompressible ?

Mass extinctions, the fossil record, and whether we can avoid a disastrous human-made mass extinction event.

The Ocean-Atmosphere-Cryosphere s- tem of the Arctic is of unique importance to the World, its climate and its peoples and is changing rapidly; it is no accident that the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA) was the first comprehensive regional assessment of climate-impact to be conducted.

According to my latest model for the last glacial maximum (LGM) (Grosswald 1988), the Arctic continental margin of Eurasia was glaciated by the Eurasian ice sheet, which consisted of three interconnected ice domes --the Scandinavian, Kara, and East Siberian.

Global climate and the effects of global warming are commanding unprecendented interest as climates grow more dynamic and changeable.

The urgency of the global warming challenge combined with the implication of almost every facet of a nation-state's economic interests places significant burdens on the established largely-voluntary global institutions that have developed over the last century; institutions that have been unable to effectively reshape themselves and move fast enough to deal with this unique challenge.

This book focuses on the development of physical parameterization over the last 2 to 3 decades and provides a roadmap for its future development.

This book shows that escalating climate destruction today is not the product of public indifference, but of the blocked democratic freedoms of peoples across the world to resist unwanted degrees of capitalist interference with their ecological fate or capacity to change the course of ecological disaster.

A practical text on lightning protection for meteorologists, atmospheric scientists, architects, engineers, and fire-safety experts.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Water Resources, Ocean, and Environmental Engineering (ICWROEE 2024).

This book explores the link between climate change and resiliency on each continent of the world.

Without major changes, the current air transportation system will be unable to accommodate the expected increase in demand by 2025.