Meteorology and climatology

This book presents the impact of climate change on Mount Baker glaciers, USA, and the rivers surrounding them.

Contemporary cities face phenomenal risks, and they face particularly high levels of mounting social and environmental risks, including social polarization, urban conflicts, riots, terror, and climate change threats.

This book thoroughly examines aerosol pollution and aerosol atmospheric rivers (narrow corridors of concentrated suspended aerosols in the sky), exploring their significant effects on human health, the environment, and global climate.

The aim of this book is to provide a synthesis of the newest research in Geography concerning the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's).

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.

This authored book assesses the spatial patterns of climate change and gender inequalities across the Global South, and analyzes the disproportionate impacts that climate change processes have on women in these regions.

Truths, facts and opinions on the climate issue are often met with psychological or social defense, both publicly and privately.

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This book provides a detailed study and assessment of water resources management andpollution control in different BRICS countries.

Matters related to sustainable development, albeit global in nature, are best handled at the local level.

Society is increasingly affected by climate impacts, from prolonged water shortages to damaging coastal floods and wildfires.

In early 1962, at the age of 21, Bruce Hicks found himself temporarily in charge of a micrometeorological experimental program conducted at Kerang, in Victoria (Australia).

This is the first book to review all the fields of equatorial electrojet phenomena and their relevant theories in one volume.

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.

Numerous experts including ecologists, geneticists, paleontologists and climatologists, investigate the response of terrestrial organisms to changes in their environment.

The first book to establish hurricanes as a key factor in the development of modern Cuba, Winds of Change shows how these great storms played a decisive role in shaping the economy, the culture, and the nation during a critical century in the island's history.

For over twenty years, the Joint Program in Physical Oceanography of MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has based its education program on a series of core courses in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics and Physical Oceanography.

Atmospheric Satellite Observations: Variation Assimilation and Quality Assurance provides an invaluable reference for satellite data assimilation.

The Arctic has been undergoing significant changes in recent years.

This book brings together a series of theory and practice essays on risk management and adaptation in urban contexts within a resilient and multidimensional perspective.

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

This comprehensive handbook provides a unique overview of the theory, methodologies and best practices in climate change communication from around the world.

Grazing lands represent the largest and most diverse land resource-taking up over half the earth's land surface.

Martin Parry University College, London, UK The 13 country studies collected in this re- Adaptations Assessment published by the port represent the first of what is likely to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change become a worldwide, country-by-country (Carter et al.

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.

The book addresses the perceived need for a publication with looks at both, climate smart technologies and the integration of renewable energy and energy efficiency in mitigation and adaptation responses.

This book focuses on cloud-based platforms, advanced programming, machine learning models and programming approaches to assess water and other natural resources, flood impact, land use land cover (LULC), global forest change, global forest canopy height and pantropical nation-level carbon stock, among other areas.

This books presents a documentation and resulting perspectives regarding James Lovelock's multidisciplinary evolution theory.

This book is the outcome of a workshop held at Park City, Utah, 23-25 May, 1984.

This book, as a part of a series of CERES publications, provides a multi-regional and cross-sectoral analysis of food and water security, especially in the era of climate risks, biodiversity loss, pressure on scarce resources, especially land and water, increasing global population, and changing dietary preferences.

Nonlinear Dynamics in Geosciences is comprised of the proceedings of "e;20 Years of Nonlinear Dynamics in Geosciences"e;, held June 11-16, 2006 in Rhodes, Greece as part of the Aegean Conferences.

This book explores the dynamics of planetary and stellar fluid layers, including atmospheres, oceans, iron cores, and convective and radiative zones in stars, describing the different theoretical, computational and experimental methods used to study these problems in fluid mechanics, including the advantages and limitations of each method for different problems.

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Ocean margins are the transitional zones between the oceans and continents.

Why aren't we investing more in disaster resilience, despite the rising costs of disaster events?

In this volume, we present the lectures given during the 1984 OHOLO Conference, held in Zichron Yaacov, Israel.

Glaciers in the Andes are particularly important natural archives of present and past climatic and environmental changes, in significant part because of the N-S trend of this topographic barrier and its influence on the atmospheric circulation of the southern hemisphere.

Proceedings of the Millennium NATO/CCMS International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modeling and its Application, held May 15-19 in Boulder, Colorado.

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

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

Despite major advances in the observation and numerical simulation of the atmosphere, basic features of the Earth's climate remain poorly understood.

This book proposes that it is not only states and international bodies that have a responsibility to take action toward mitigating climate change.

For anyone trying to separate the fact from the fiction, The Complete Guide to Climate Change is an indispensable resource.

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This book introduces climate change fundamentals and essential concepts that reveal the extent of the damage, the impacts felt around the globe, and the innovation and leadership it will take to bring an end to the status quo.

Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds and Climate Change highlights the relationship between climate change and biogenic VOC and the impact they have on each other.

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date assessment of the key terrestrial components of the Arctic system, i.