Meteorology and climatology

Extreme Hydrology and Climate Variability: Monitoring, Modelling, Adaptation and Mitigation is a compilation of contributions by experts from around the world who discuss extreme hydrology topics, from monitoring, to modeling and management.

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This book aims to help students, researchers and policy makers understand the latest research and development trends in the application of WebGIS for Disaster Management and Emergency Response.

Winner of the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada General Audience awardWe live at the bottom of an ocean of air 5,200 million million tons, to be exact.

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A detailed study of research on the psychology of expertise in weather forecasting, drawing on findings in cognitive science, meteorology, and computer science.

Originally published in 1955 Atmospheric Turbulence examines dynamic meteorology and the fundamental part it plays in the overall science of meteorology.

Reliable collections of science-based environmental information are vital for many groups of users and for a number of purposes.

Phenology refers to recurring plant and animal life cycle stages, such as leafing and flowering, maturation of agricultural plants, emergence of insects, and migration of birds.

Our realisation of how profoundly glaciers and ice sheets respond to climate change and impact sea level and the environment has propelled their study to the forefront of Earth system science.

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

This book investigates tropospheric delays, one of the main error sources in Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), and its impact plays a crucial role in near real-time weather forecasting.

This book aims to provide a comprehensive overview of how climate change affects planetary health and what this means for our collective future.

This book contains a selection of papers that have been prepared for the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the Economics of Atmospheric Pollution, that took place in Wageningen, The Netherlands, November 1994, hosted by Wageningen Agricultural University and sponsored by NATO Scientific and Environmental Affairs Division.

Ecosystem-Based Adaptation: Approaches to Sustainable Management of Aquatic Resources presents a close examination of the role of ecosystem-based adaptation in managing river basins, aquifers, flood plains and their vegetation to provide water storage and flood regulation.

In this volume, the contributors discuss some of the most remarkable global warming effects in Argentina and examine policies that Latin American countries could follow to achieve their individual climate goals.

This book addresses three big economic challenges from a dynamic perspective: European integration, economic growth, and global climate change.

The high-resolution palynological study of the varved sediments of Lake Montcortes has provided a unique record of the regional vegetation shifts over the last 3000 years and of the natural and anthropogenic drivers of ecological change, unparalleled in the Mediterranean.

In the last half decade since sustainable development became a serious objective, what have we achieved?

The Second International Symposium on the East African Lakes was held from 10-15 January 2000 at Club Makokola on the southern shore of Lake Malawi.

Few scientists doubt the prediction that the antropogenic release of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will lead to some warming of the earth's climate.

This book explores the impacts of climate change on Nigeria.

This book provides a thorough introductory description of the physical principles underlying the satellite remote sensing of clouds and precipitation.

Provides tools and techniques to identify and address distortions and to interpret data coming from Lidar sensing technology This book covers the issues encountered in separating the backscatter and transmission terms in the LIDAR equation when profiling the atmosphere with zenith-directed and vertically-scanning Lidars.

This collection critically engages the resource use nexus.

Like planets in our solar system, exoplanets form, evolve, and interact with their host stars in many ways.

"e;Because the development of the carbon economy has always been closely bound up with the deepening of human inequalities, movements seeking climate justice need to unravel a tangle of social injustices at all scales.

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

This book presents the results of the first full-scale emissions trading schemes in Australia and internationally, arguing these schemes will not be sufficient to 'civilize markets' and prevent dangerous climate change.

Strontium and its isotopes provide solutions to important geologic problems and offer clues about seminal events in Earth history.

The Arctic troposphere (0 to ca.

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.

The field of solar physics and solar--terrestrial relation, now called space weather, is evolving rapidly.

This book explores global implications of human activities that trigger changes in climate and the appropriate scientific, adaptive, and sustainable approaches as a proven information tool.

The present volume is the result of activities within the scientific programme "e;Response of the Earth System to Impact Processes"e; (IMP ACT) of the European Science Foundation (ESF).

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This edited book provides a comprehensive overview of the past, present and future climate development in Poland.

Drawing a completely new road map toward a sustainable future, Jack M.

This book identifies the most effective water policy tools and innovations, and the circumstances that foster their successful implementation by taking a comparative look at a world-leading 'laboratory' of water law and governance: Australia.

Remote Sensing plays a key role in monitoring the various manifestations of global climate change.

Where oceans, land and atmosphere meet, three dynamic forces contribute to the physical and ecological evolution of coastlines.

Called the greatest storms on the planet, hurricanes of the North Atlantic Ocean often cause tremendous social and economic upheaval in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

This book presents a comprehensive and innovative understanding of the role of shallow coastal ecosystems in carbon cycling, particularly marine carbon sequestration.

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 offers a detailed account of the legal issues concerning the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands) by leading experts in the field.

This book presents contributions on teaching innovation in university architecture and building engineering studies.

For almost a decade, economists Kevin M.

An international team of over 150 experts provide up-to-date satellite imaging and quantitative analysis of the state and dynamics of the glaciers around the world, and they provide an in-depth review of analysis methodologies.