Meteorology and climatology

An updated and accessible account of what science knows about climate change, incorporating the latest scientific findings and policy initiatives.

Temperature and other climate variables are currently changing at a dramatic rate.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on ICT as Key Technology for the Fight against Global Warming, ICT-GLOW 2012, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2012, in conjunction with DEXA 2012.

A charming, richly illustrated, pocket-size exploration of the world's weatherPacked with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile anyone who is curious about weather.

History and Climate Change is a balanced and comprehensive overview of the links between climate and man's advance from early to modern times.

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

This book applies a gendered lens to evaluate the dynamic linkages between climate change and livelihoods in developing countries.

In recent decades there has been a growing awareness of how intricate the interactions are between human beings and the environment.

Presents a multidisciplinary and observational approach to introduce the physical processes that drive ocean biogeochemistry and global climate change.

Vanadium isotopes is a very new proxy that has significant potential to trace non-zero marine oxygen variations.

Lightning represents a natural phenomenon of substantial interest.

The world is currently experiencing changes in climate and environment that often lead to natural disasters.

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.

Textbook providing a self-contained course on atmospheric dynamics for advanced students and researchers.

This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of multi-level water governance, developing a conceptual and analytical framework that captures the complexity of real water governance systems while also introducing different approaches to comparative analysis.

This edited volume is a comprehensive guide to understanding and harnessing the power of renewable energy for a sustainable future.

Around 4000 years ago the advanced urban civilizations in Egypt, Mesopotamia and India suddenly collapsed.

The hominin fossil record documents a history of critical evolutionary events that have ultimately shaped and defined what it means to be human, including the origins of bipedalism; the emergence of our genus Homo; the first use of stone tools; increases in brain size; and the emergence of Homo sapiens, tools, and culture.

This book shows how California's weather and climate have drastically changed and what we can expect in the near future.

This book discusses emerging contexts of global warming and climate change, agricultural vulnerability and adaptation from local to global scale.

The book summarizes the latest research achievements of the "e;CAS Earth Poles: Big Data for the Three Poles"e; project in actively responding to the United Nations' sustainable development goals (SDGs).

The Weather Handbook is the essential guide to how the weather is formed, providing readers with the ability to look at the sky and interpret its signs, and combine this knowledge with information provided by professional forecasts to assess for themselves what the coming weather is likely to be.

This book investigates the spatial distribution of potential temperature-driven malaria transmissions, using the basic reproduction rate (R0) to model the reproduction of the malaria pathogen Plasmodium vivax.

This volume contains the ten most cited articles that have appeared in the journal Atmosphere-Ocean since 1995.

This book explores the cultural and religious politics of the contemporary food movement, starting from the example of Jewish foodies, their zeal for pig (forbidden by Jewish law), and their talk about why ignoring traditional precepts around food is desirable.

Stimulated by "e;Noah's Flood Hypothesis"e; proposed by W.

Over the past decade the scientific activities of the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS), which focuses on the role of the oceans in controlling climate change via the transport and storage of greenhouse gases and organic matter, have led to an increased interest in the study of the biogeochemistry of organic matter.

This book discusses the concepts and technologies associated with the mitigation of urban heat islands (UHIs) that are applicable in hot and humid regions.

The objectives 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.

Offering all aspects of humidity measurement and instrumentation, this work includes rudiments and theory, common applications, advantages and limitations of frequently-used sensors and techniques, and guidelines for installation, maintenance and calibration.

This volume arises from an International Symposium on Flow and Transport in the Natural Environment held in Canberra, Australia, in September 1987.

Net Zero is not enough.

Instant Weather Forecasting has been a perennial bestseller since it was first published nearly 50 years ago.

Visualization Techniques for Climate Change with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence covers computer-aided artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies as related to the impacts of climate change and its potential to prevent/remediate the effects.

Charting innovative directions in the environmental humanities, this book examines the cultural history of climate change under three broad headings: history, writing and politics.

Investigations of atmospheric pollution have recently reached a new stage.

Originally published in 1975 Terrestrial Environments covers the zoogeography and ecology of the main terrestrial environments of the world, including fresh water habitats with emphasis on their fauna.

Climatology is approached in a variety of ways.

The second in this series of three heliophysics texts, integrating the many aspects of space storms and their energetic radiation.

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This book showcases experiences from research, field projects and best practice in climate change adaptation in countries in the Latin American region, focusing on managing vulnerability and fostering resilience.

From earthquakes to the northern lights and tsunamis to glacier movement, the author explains thousands of phenomena in the world around us.

This book offers a readable and accessible account of the way in which the world's plant life partly controls its own environment.

This new edition of Air Pollution Control Equipment Selection Guide builds upon the successes of previous editions that developed a detailed discussion on various technologies used for air pollution control.

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 201.