Meteorology and climatology

Remote Sensing of Aerosols, Clouds, and Precipitation compiles recent advances in aerosol, cloud, and precipitation remote sensing from new satellite observations.

Each year, at least 1,200 tornadoes batter the United States.

This series of books are the output of the research project called "e;Sustainable Development in Asia (SDA)"e;, which was initiated by the Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia (AASA).

Captures advances being made in the field of coronal magnetism, from theory to observations and instrumentation.

This book offers a comprehensive review of our current understanding of the planetary boundary layer, particularly the turbulent exchanges of momentum, heat and passive scalars between the surface of the Earth and the atmosphere.

Full Title: Water - Pollution, Biotechnology - Transgenic Plant Vaccine, Energy, Black Sea Pollution, AIDS - Mother-Infant HIV Transmission, Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy, Limits of Development - Megacities, Missile Proliferation and Defense - Information Security, Cosmic Objects, Desertification, Carbon Sequestration and Sustainability, Climatic Changes, Global Monitoring of Planet, Mathematics and Democracy, Science and Journalism, Permanent Monitoring Panel Reports, Water for Megacities Workshop, Black Sea Workshop, Transgenic Plants Workshop, Research Resources Workshop, Mother-Infant HIV Transmission Workshop, Sequestration and Desertification Workshop, Focus Africa Workshop

This volume discusses climate change impacts on groundwater quality in arid and semi-arid regions, and provides human health risk assessments due to pollution of surface and groundwater.

This book sheds light on the process in which the sub-state actor of Greenland has expanded its autonomy and strengthened its de jure participation in the national security of Denmark.

A basic one-stop reference for graduate students and researchers.

This volume contains forty-one revised and extended research articles, written by prominent researchers participating in the International Conference on Aeronautical Sciences, Engineering and Technology 2023, held in Muscat, October 3-5 2023.

This thesis encompasses a study of past precipitation patterns based on six cave stalagmites from different parts of the Indian Himalaya.

This book presents a geographical survey of the Netherlands, reviewing recent and historic developments that made the nation.

This book offers a collection of conference articles presented at the Second International Young Scientists Forum on Soil and Water Conservation and ICCE symposium 2018 "e;Climate Change Impacts on Sediment Dynamics: Measurement, Modelling, and Management"e; held at Moscow from 27 to 31 August 2018.

This book focuses on the application of statistical methods in the field of hydrology and hydroclimatology.

In recent years, the problem of seeing through the atmosphere has been given intensive and costly consideration in several quarters, but particularly in the Untied States and Great Britain.

This book provides a new synthesis of the published research on the Quaternary of Ireland.

The Geo-Sciences Panel is a synonym for the Special Programme on Global Transport Mechanisms in the Geo-Sciences.

This book deals primarily with understanding, monitoring and prediction of Tropical Cyclones (TCs) over the North Indian Ocean (NIO).

This monograph offers a wide array of contemporary information on weather radar polarimetry and its applications.

This book discusses how to apply the basic principles of pedology to the tropical soils of the Indian subcontinent, with an emphasis on ways to enhance crop productivity.

This book was written to support community involvement in the design process, to help prevent negative outcomes that can result from a top-down design approach.

In diesem Buch wird einerseits die spannende Entdeckung der Stratosphäre selbst und verschiedener unerwarteter Phänomene in der Stratosphäre beschrieben: ein bemannter Ballonflug im Jahr 1901 bis in 11 km Höhe; eine Expedition zum Victoriasee im Jahr 1908; die Entdeckung der Ozonschicht um 1930, des "Berliner Phänomens" im Jahr 1952, des Einflusses von Vulkaneruptionen im Jahr 1982, des Ozonlochs im Jahr 1985 und des Einflusses der Sonnenaktivität im Jahr 1987.

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

The book provides an overview of the Slow Onset Disasters (SLOD) in the urban built environment discussing potential strategies to assess and mitigate multiple climate change related risks.

This book is a guide to energy efficiency and environmental impact assessment in high-performance buildings projects.

For advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in atmospheric, oceanic, and climate science, Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics is an introductory textbook on the circulations of the atmosphere and ocean and their interaction, with an emphasis on global scales.

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In this book the research on atmospheric deposition of the Dutch Priority Programme on Acidification Research is summarised.

The research and its outcomes presented here focuses on tropospheric or ground level ozone, in particular due to its surfacing as a major threat to crop productivity around the world.

This book is a reference work about the study of oases in the context of globalization.

Urban Heat Island Modeling for Tropical Climates takes into account the different urban physics in tropical environments, presenting a way of UHI scaling for tropical cities.

Towards the Balance and Management of the Carbon Budget of the Biosphere The current state of misunderstanding of the global C cycle and our failure to resolve an issue that has been debated for 100 years (Jones and Henderson-Sellers, 1990) speaks loudly about the limitations of modem science when faced with the complexity of the biosphere.

This book summarizes assessments of the Paris Agreement to provide an excellent introduction to this research field.

Improved adaptation of food production, particularly in areas where climate variability is large, holds the key to improving food security for human populations.

Climate change is occurring.

In addition to describing core concepts and principles, this book reveals professional methodologies and tools used by national agencies and private corporations to predict sites' potential for wind and solar power generation.

This book highlights the development of lake systems and water reservoirs as well as the impact of climate change on water resources in Central Asian countries.

This book is a collection of selected, peer-reviewed papers presented at the 2023 11th International Conference on Environment Pollution and Prevention (ICEPP 2023), which was held in Brisbane, Australia, November 10-12, 2023.

A large part of the world s coastlines consists of sandy beaches and dunes that may undergo dramatic changes during storms.

This book gathers peer-reviewed research articles on recent advances concerning the geology, geophysics, tectonics, geochronology, sedimentology, igneous petrology, paleo-climate and paleo-oceanography of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India and the adjoining ocean basins.

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

Phenology is the study of plant and animal life cycle events, which are triggered by environmental changes, especially temperature.

This book describes a fresh approach to climate change communication: five core principles for public engagement that can propel climate change discourse out of the margins and into the mainstream.

This highly practical handbook is an exhaustive treatment of eddy covariance measurement that will be of keen interest to scientists who are not necessarily specialists in micrometeorology.

There is now a palpable sense of optimism about the role of cities and transnational city-networks in global climate governance.

Efforts to understand climate variability and predict future climate change have highlighted many aspects of the hydrologic cycle and the exchange of energy and water at the atmosphere-surface interface as areas of critically needed study.

This book presents current knowledge on chemistry and physics of Arctic atmosphere.

This book introduces the reader to a new method of data assimilation with deterministic constraints (exact satisfaction of dynamic constraints)-an optimal assimilation strategy called Forecast Sensitivity Method (FSM), as an alternative to the well-known four-dimensional variational (4D-Var) data assimilation method.

Provides concise grounding in basic chemical principles for studies of atmospheres, oceans, and Earth systems.