Meteorology and climatology

This latest addition to the Studies in Geophysics series explores in scientific detail the phenomenon of lightning, cloud, and thunderstorm electricity, and global and regional electrical processes.

Earth at Risk in the 21st Century offers critical interdisciplinary reflections on peace, security, gender relations, migration and the environment, all of which are threatened by climate change, with women and children affected most.

These papers stem from the ISOTT Meeting held at Churchill College, Cambridge, from July 27th to 30th, 1986.

The northern North Atlantic is one of the regions most sensitive to past and present global changes.

We review using iodine incorporated in calcium carbonate (including biogenic) minerals as a proxy for dissolved oxygen in seawater.

This book explains and illustrates how Indonesia as the largest and most populous country in Southeast Asia can become independent of fossil fuels by both reducing its energy needs and using renewable resources.

The Earth's climate is constantly changing.

We know a great deal about historical climate and its variations from various geo- logical studies.

Vor einigen Jahren wurde an die VDI-Kommission Reinhaltung der Luft der Wunsch herangetragen, sie möge sich mit dem Problem der Luftqualität in großen Städten befassen und dabei auch Planungs­ aspekte berücksichtigen.

General circulation model (GCM) experiments in the late 1970's indicated that the climate is sensitive to variations in evaporation at the land surface.

This book covers several aspects of the application of Sustainable Development Goals to mining related subjects.

Meteorology is by nature a multidisciplinary and transnational subject and COST cooperation has proved to be a flexible and suitable framework at European level for meteorological activities such as the standardisation of observation techniques and harmonised transmission of meteorological data.

This book documents seven examples of Early Warning Systems for hydrometeorological and other hazards that have proven effective in reducing losses due to these hazards.

Remote sensing data and models from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are the basis for a wide spectrum of scientific research endeavors and are key inputs to many public and private services.

The book focuses on atmospheric processes that directly influence human environments within the lower 100-1000 meters of the atmosphere, spanning regions of only a few kilometers in size.

This book discusses the dynamics and resource management qualities of the peri-urban interface to address climate change consequences, focusing on the peri-urban region of the global city of Bengalaru.

Oceans account for 50% of the anthropogenic CO2 released into the atmosphere.

Water vapor plays a vital role in shaping weather and climate on Earth.

This book investigates various aspects of the phenomenon of atmospheric oxygen depletion, and summarizes our current knowledge of atmospheric oxygen.

This book is a survey of the research work done by the author over the last 15 years, in collaboration with various eminent mathematicians and climate scientists on the subject of tropical convection and convectively coupled waves.

This volume reviews all aspects of Mars atmospheric science from the surface to space, and from now and into the past.

Climate Observations: Data Quality Control and Time Series Homogenization pulls together the different phases of the production of high-quality climatic datasets, allowing interested readers to obtain a coherent picture on the complexity and importance of this task.

Mountains, Climate and Biodiversity: A comprehensive and up-to-date synthesis for students and researchers Mountains are topographically complex formations that play a fundamental role in regional and continental-scale climates.

This textbook explains turbulent flows using an introductory but fundamental approach to teaching the core principles, striking a balance between theoretical and practical aspects of the topic without overwhelming the reader with mathematical detail.

An overall increase in global-mean atmospheric temperatures is predicted to occur in response to human-induced increases in atmospheric concentrations of heat-trapping "e;greenhouse gases.

This monograph is the English version of "e;Chikyu Ondanka Kenkyu no Saizensen (The State of the Art of the Global Warming Research)"e; published as a report of Global Warming Research Initiative established by The Council for Science and Technology Policy (CSTP), the Cabinet Office, Japanese Government.

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.

Because of its peculiar biology, its negative impacts on forestry, and its urticating larvae affecting human and animal health, pine processionary moth has largely been studied in many European countries during the last century.

Since the publication of the first volume "e;Infrasound monitoring for atmospheric studies"e; published in 2010, significant advances were achieved in the fields of engineering, propagation modelling, and atmospheric remote sensing methods.

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

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Beiträge zur Meteorologie der Stadtatmosphäre" verfügbar.

The present mortality as a result of snow avalanches exceeds the average mortality caused by earthquakes as well as all other forms of slope failure combined.

This book includes new results of theoretical and experimental studies of various scales of the processes occurring on the earth including the lithosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere.

This book is based on the 2014 Special Issue 124(3) of Climatic Change.

Mit ihrem geozentrischen Weltbild, bei dem sich die Sonne und das Universum um die Erde drehen, stellten die Mächtigen und Einflussreichen des mittelalterlichen Europas den Mensch, bzw.

The monograph is devoted to ball lightning (BL) observed in natural conditions in the air and artificial BL, long-lived luminous formations (LLF), usually obtained in laboratories experimentally.

This book examines ascent trajectories of space launch vehicles and re-entry trajectories of space capsules.

This book presents a novel approach in the field of global change by presenting a comprehensive analysis of interhemispheric linkages of climate, present and past, and their effects on human societies.

Climate change is as much a cultural phenomenon as it is a natural one.

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This book treats instrumentation used in meteorological surface systems, both on the synoptic scale and the mesoscale, and the instrumentation used in upper air soundings.

This book contains the most recent progress in data assimilation in meteorology, oceanography and hydrology including land surface.

Solar and Terrestrial Radiation: Methods and Measurements basically summarizes instruments used in routine measurements of solar and terrestrial radiation at the earth's surface.

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

The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify.

The Late Devonian and Permian-Triassic intervals are among the most dynamic episodes of Earth history, marked by large secular changes in continental ecosystems, dramatic fluctuations in ocean oxygenation, major phases of biotic turnover, volcanism, bolide impact events, and rapid fluctuations in stable isotope systems and sea level.

This book provides essential information on Mexico's Holocene and Anthropocene climate and vegetation history.

As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing international attention.

This book is based on the project "e;Development and Validation of High Resolution Climate System Models"e; with the support of the National Key Basic Research Project under grant No.