Meteorology and climatology

Unter der Prämisse, dass ein Klimawandel stattfindet, arbeitet Wolfgang Osterhage eine Problemstellung heraus, die zu Lösungsvorschlägen im Rahmen des Climate Engineering führt, mit welchen das Klima pro-aktiv beeinflusst werden kann.

This book discusses what it means for cities to work toward and achieve resilience in the face of climate change.

This book contributes to the on-going debates on climate change by focusing on the SDGs and exploring linkages between environmental change and food security as well as the relevance and need to consider the management of natural resources, especially water, soil and forest.

This book offers a concrete contribution towards a better understanding of climate change communication.

This work summarizes the science and management of a rapidly expanding topic in climate science, namely adaptation and mitigation.

This volume provides an overview of the climate change adaptation objectives set, actions taken, and challenges faced by several countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

This book explores the real-world consequences changing ideas and strategies have on effective climate governance.

Das Meereis der Polargebiete ist nicht nur wunderschön, es reguliert auch die Temperatur der Erde.

Der Zusammenhang zwischen liberaler Demokratie als Staats- und Lebensform, politischer und ökologischer Bildung und einer angemessenen Einrichtung und Neuausrichtung menschlicher Naturverhältnisse im Lichte des Klimawandels ist nicht zuletzt auf Grund der Bewegung „Fridays for Future“ ein Thema, das in der aktuellen öffentlichen Selbstverständigung dauerpräsent ist.

This textbook is intended for both undergraduate and graduate courses in meteorology and atmospheric sciences, as well as for researchers working on theoretical and numerical aspects of weather and climate or on geophysical fluid dynamics.

This is the first English book talking about the Three Gorges Project Eco-Environmental Monitoring System (TGPEEMS).

Auf Wahrheiten, Fakten und Meinungen zur Klimafrage wird häufig öffentlich wie privat mit psychischer oder sozialer Abwehr reagiert.

Klimawandel ist ein Meta-Thema - seit Jahrzehnten auf der Agenda der Medien, global diskutiert, mit vielen Anschlusspunkten in politische, wirtschaftliche, kulturelle Fragen und Alltagsbelange.

The book presents recent research on marine ecology in different parts of the world.

This book gives an overview of various aspects of climate change by integrating global climate models, downscaling approaches, and hydrological models.

How do and how did people perceive, manage and respond to natural disasters?

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

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

This book brings together an overview of the recent geological history, active earth and biological processes and human settlement of New Zealand.

Climate change research in agriculture: Role of crop simulation models Physiology and molecular biology of waterlogging tolerance in crop plants Impact of climate change on quality of cereals and oilseed crops Physiological approaches for sustaining maize productivity under abiotic stresses Photosynthesis and water use efficiency in C3 and C4 crops under elevated CO2 and temperature Physiological constraints limiting photosynthesis and grain growth in wheat under elevated temperature Bioprospecting of genes for changing global climate Excess water: Impact on physiological adaptations in crop plants Climate change impacts on rice productivity Impact of elevated CO2 and temperature on crop-weed interaction Vulnerability of trees and fruit crops to climate change Impact of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration on horticultural crops productivity Effect of climate change on oil palm plantations Physiology of nitrogen fixation in legumes under elevated CO2 Interactive effects of nitrogen and elevated CO2 on crop plants Plant responses to elevated carbon dioxide and phosphate nutrition Nutrient dynamics in rhizosphere under impending climate change Simulation of effect of biotic stresses on crop productivity under climate change scenario Potential effects of climate change on insect pest dynamics

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 application of statistical methods in the field of hydrology and hydroclimatology.

This book provides an overview of the current state of knowledge of Arctic ice shelves, ice islands and related features.

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.

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

This book is the first comprehensive assessment of the state of low-carbon investments in Asia, analyzing the rationales, mandates and public-private financing activities.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 1st Global Civil Engineering Conference, GCEC 2017, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on July 25-28, 2017.

Climatology is approached in a variety of ways.

This volume provides preliminary recommendations on ways to educate and develop experience-based expertise among disaster response, security and other professionals from diverse backgrounds, whose current and future interests relate to crisis management.

This volume provides an overview of (1) the physical and chemical foundations of dating methods and (2) the applications of dating methods in the geological sciences, biology, and archaeology, in almost 200 articles from over 200 international authors.

This volume covers the Middle-Eastern and North African regions who are increasingly dependent on imports from abroad for covering their domestic food needs.

Coral reefs are the largest landforms built by plants and animals.

The Multiscale Global Monsoon System is the 4th and most up-to-date edition of the global monsoon book series produced by a group of leading international experts invited by the World Meteorological Organization's Working Group on Tropical Meteorology Research.

The earth's cryosphere, which includes snow, glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, ice shelves, sea ice, river and lake ice, and permafrost, contains about 75% of the earth's fresh water.

This book contributes to the current discussion on climate change by presenting selected studies on the ways in which past human groups responded to climatic and environmental change.

This book describes the principles of integrated assessment models (IAM) for climate change economics and introduces various computable models for different development mechanisms under climate change governance.

The high predictability of the atmosphere and ocean depends on the existence of a 'slow manifold', which contains the solutions of equations describing only large-scale motions.

The second volume of this book is a compilation of the high-quality papers from the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering (ETWREE 2017).

This book aims to compile some of the important results from the latest research in climate variation and prediction studies with a focus on the role of the ocean, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region.

The human race has altered the chemical composition of the atmosphere, as evidenced by the notorious London smog, photochemical air pollution, acid rain, stratospheric ozone depletion, and elevated greenhouse gas concentrations.

This is the first book illustrating China's forest carbon projects.

This book promotes a meaningful and appropriate dialogue and cross-disciplinary partnerships on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in governance and disaster management.