Meteorology and climatology

In The Coming Famine, Julian Cribb lays out a vivid picture of impending planetary crisis--a global food shortage that threatens to hit by mid-century--that would dwarf any in our previous experience.

Atlas: Eventos extremos de precipitación en Nariño es resultado de un proyecto de investigación que analiza la variabilidad climática y los eventos extremos de precipitación entre 1983 y 2019 en el departamento de Nariño; una región localizada en la zona ecuatorial y caracterizada por su compleja fisiografía, que incluye las costas del Pacífico, los Andes y el piedemonte Amazónico.

This book presents a comprehensive framework and indicators that can be used to assess a city's degree of resilience.

This book offers essential insights into potential catastrophic events that might befall upon the emerging urban landscape in South Asia, and which are due to hazards, risks and vulnerabilities inherent in the region's geophysical location, as well as due to climate change and unplanned urbanization.

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The dissertation investigates the scientific and business factors that have resulted in air-conditioning being a major contributor to climate-change.

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.

Textbook that uniquely integrates physics and chemistry in the study of atmospheric thermodynamics for advanced single-semester courses.

This book explores urban environments and their impact on resilience, livability, climate adaptation, health, and societal well-being.

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 200.

Issues linking climate change and economic growth are now at the centre of discussions regarding development strategies especially in the context of developing countries.

Climate change can reasonably be expected to increase the frequency and intensity of a variety of potentially disruptive environmental eventsslowly at first, but then more quickly.

CAWSES (Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System) is the most important scientific program of SCOSTEP (Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics).

This book provides up-to-date multidisciplinary information regarding microbial physiological groups in terms of their role in the Antarctic ecology.

The book presents the processes governing the dynamics of landscapes, soils and sediments, water and energy under different climatic regions using studies conducted in varied climatic zones including arid, semi-arid, humid and wet regions.

This book presents new research related to climate change policies and effects.

This edited volume is devoted to the examination of the implications of the inevitable changes wrought by global change on the welfare and livelihoods of tens of millions of people who live in dryland regions.

This book is a systematic compilation of the most recent body of knowledge in the rapidly developing research area of greenhouse gas interaction with clay systems.

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 serves the purpose of showcasing some of the works in respect of applied research, field projects, and best practice to foster climate change adaptation across the region.

Only a few laboratories in the world have taken the bold step to attempt the integration of sub-models of the climate system, the global biogeochemical cycles and the human/societal components.

Science of Weather, Climate and Ocean Extremes presents an evidence-based view of the most important ways in which the build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is affecting both our atmosphere and the oceans.

This book focuses on environmental footprints that have attracted considerable interest and discussion within academia, policy makers and the public as a tool to assess anthropogenic effects on the environment.

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

In the past decades advances have been made in the research and practice on unsaturated soil mechanics.

This book reviews the current state of knowledge of the atmospheres of the giant gaseous planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

This book presents a novel picture in current advances in research of theoretical and practical frameworks of environmental problems and solutions taken from the latest empirical research findings.

First published in 1967, this book explores the theme of geographical generalization, or model building.

The book focuses on the challenges faced by urban areas in the context of handling waste in an environmentally and socially acceptable manner.

This book presents a new and innovative approach to understanding the dynamics of international climate change negotiations using India as a focal point.

This book provides in-depth information about the sea ice in the Arctic at scales from paleoenvironmental variability to more contemporary changes during the past and present centuries.

The Routledge Handbook of Applied Climate Change Ethics is a powerful reference source for the identification and exploration of the underlying ethical issues in climate change law and policy.

Climatic Change is a rapidly evolving domain that has prompted the publication of numerous scientific works in recent years, reflecting both the public and scientific interest in the topic.

This book examines international climate change mitigation and adaptation regimes with the aim of proposing fair climate stability implementation strategies.

An objective and rigorous analysis of climate change liability law in eighteen jurisdictions around the world.

This book discusses in detail the science and morphology of powerful hurricane detection systems.

Since The Little Ice Age was published in 1988, interest in climatic history has grown rapidly and research in the area has flourished.

This book presents the fundamentals of polarimetric radar remote sensing through understanding wave scattering and propagation in geophysical media filled with hydrometers and other objects.

Education serves as a cornerstone for gaining knowledge and taking initiative.

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.

Lidar or laser radar, the depth-resolved remote measurement of atmospheric parameters with optical means, has become an important tool in the field of atmospheric and environmental remote sensing.

This volume uses aerosol optical depth (AOD) analysis through mapping and remote sensing techniques to derive the relationship between aerosols and hazardous precipitation events, primarily in the form of flooding.

The biosphere is the ultimate sink for air pollutants and is also the source of many precursors for the formation of photo-oxidants.

Provides unique synthesis of various modeling methodologies used to aid planning and operational decision making, for academic researchers and professionals.

Semi-Lagrangian Advection Methods and Their Applications in Geoscience provides a much-needed resource on semi-Lagrangian theory, methods, and applications.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Über das Verhalten des mittleren vertikalen Temperaturgradienten der bodennahen Luftschicht (1–76 m) und seine Abhängigkeit von speziellen Witterungsfaktoren und Wetterlagen" verfügbar.

This book focuses on the water-energy-climate nexus, which can be used to improve energy security and quality of life for millions of people in developing countries.

Rising temperatures are affecting organisms in all of Earth's biomes, but the complexity of ecological responses to climate change has hampered the development of a conceptually unified treatment of them.