Meteorology and climatology

This book discusses how research efforts have established an organic link between pedology and edaphology of five pedogenetically important soil orders as Alfisols, Mollisols, Ultisols, Vertisols and Inceptisols of tropical Indian environments.

"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.

A gripping history of the polar continent, from the great discoveries of the nineteenth century to modern scientific breakthroughsAntarctica, the ice kingdom hosting the South Pole, looms large in the human imagination.

This textbook introduces a set of fundamental equations that govern the conservation of mass (dry air, water vapor, trace gas), momentum and energy in the lower atmosphere.

The current economic and environmental situation poses fundamental questions that this book aims to answer: Under which conditions could a market-based approach contribute to a decrease in emissions?

During recent decades a new field of study in atmospheric science has made its appearance - the dynamics of clouds.

Atmospheric Remote Sensing: Principles and Applications discusses the fundamental principles of atmospheric remote sensing and their applications in different research domains.

As the world faces the urgent need to combat climate change, "e;CO2 Geosequestration: Capturing Carbon for a Sustainable Future"e; provides a comprehensive solution on carbon dioxide storage in geological media, and utilization to reduce the CO2 from the atmosphere.

This book analyses the regional complexes of climate security in the Pacific.

The contributors to this book critically examine the performance of new modes of governance in areas of limited statehood, drawing on a range of in-depth case studies on issues of climate change, biodiversity, and health.

This book is a comprehensive volume dealing with climate change impacts on agriculture, and which can help guide the redesign of agricultural management and cropping systems.

This anthology of studies by the eminent geographer and climate scientist Eduard Bruckner (1862-1927) on anthropogenic climate change and the social, political and economic impact of climate variations on societies in historical times, assembles his pioneering work in English for the first time.

Shallow lakes are important for their amenity value and the ecosystem services that they support.

This research level text focuses on the influence of climate variability on the marine ecosystems of the North Atlantic.

This book takes a new approach to air navigation, extending the classic scope of positioning and guidance to efficient and safe 4D flight trajectory management.

This volume analyses the energy industry for the following geographical units: America - divided into North America (Canada + USA) and  Central and South America -, the Middle East and South Asia, East Asia and Oceania.

Climate change is mainly caused by emissions of CO2 from burning fossil fuels, which provides over 85% of the world's energy.

This book presents both updated and new measurements on water resources from selective pilot areas form the Middle East.

This book offers a selection of the best articles presented at the CUPUM (Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management) Conference, held in the second week of July 2017 at the University of South Australia in Adelaide.

The book deals with the role of social capital regarding its potential to increase small islands' adaptive capacity to climate change.

This book provides an in-depth insight into the ecological perspective on a number of ongoing issues pertaining to security, the economy, the state, global environmental governance, development, and the environment.

This work offers a synthesis of the current approaches toward an integration of international trade and climate change, with a view to fostering potential improvements in policies and institutions affecting these.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Water Resources, Ocean, and Environmental Engineering (ICWROEE 2024).

Dieses Buch beschreibt nicht nur die chemischen und physikalischen Eigenschaften von Wasser, sondern es nimmt auch Stellung zur Bedeutung des Wassers im Alltag und damit verbundenen politischen und sozialen Herausforderungen.

This volume challenges global leaders and citizenry to do more in order to resource the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (AfSD) and its 17 interwoven Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Although the title of this volume and its major focus will be on one major aspect of global sustainability - climate change - this volume continues with the overall framing of the series: global sustainability is a multi-faceted, global, multi-generational, economic, social, environmental, and cultural phenomenon and challenge to our species.

This book focuses on understanding urban vulnerability and risk mitigation, advancing good health and wellbeing, and analysing resilience measures for various Asian cities.

This book provides viewpoints on a cross-sectoral, multiscale assessment of food and livelihood security in changing climate, the main global threats of the 21st century.

Protecting the Ozone Layer: Lessons, Models, and Prospects Since the mid-1980s, the international community has adopted several significant instruments designed to reverse the degradation of the life support systems of the planet.

In diesem Buch stellt der Autor die Grundlagen der Meteorologie vor.

This book addresses key topics in the current deliberations and debates on low carbon cities that are underway globally.

This book provides information that facilitates integrated climate actions in cities, leveraging disruptive technologies, business models, policies, financing, and leadership solutions.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This monograph reviews the establishment of new theories of the ozone hole and global climate change, two major scientific problems of global concern.

This book provides a one-stop shop for coastal and marine scientists to understand processes that generate atmospheric circulation as integrated with terrestrial and oceanic circulation processes to create an Earth-ocean-atmosphere climate system.

Recent results from modeling and observational studies demonstrate that the tropical Atlantic is a critical region for processes that maintain the meridional overturning circulation, such as cross-equatorial exchanges, and for sea surface temperature variability that impacts on climate variability of the coupled tropical ocean/atmosphere system.

Mesoscale dynamics for graduate students and researchers in meteorology and atmospheric science.

"e;The Early Evolution of the Atmospheres of Terrestrial Planets"e; presents the main processes participating in the atmospheric evolution of terrestrial planets.

Atmospheric Oscillations: Sources of Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Variability and Predictability provides a thorough examination of various atmospheric oscillations of scientific and societal importance in the context of natural climate variability and anthropogenic climate change.

Climate may be defined as the synthesis of long-term atmospheric conditions characteristic of a particular place.

This book explains the science of climate change in plain language and shows that the 2 to 4 percent of climate scientists who are skeptical that humans are the main cause of global warming are a fringe minority-and have a well-established history of being wrong.

Gisela Kutzbach has provided an unparalleled account of the mainstream of meteorological thought during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Originally published in Russian in 2006, this is the first English translation of this important book on paleoceanography and paleoclimatology.

This book approaches the challenges the Arctic has faced and is facing through a lens of opportunity.

The economic paradigms currently dominating the world are not sustainable.

In recent years an increasing number of studies have been published reporting observations of adapted behaviour and shifting species ranges of plant and animal species due to recent climate warming.

This book gives a coherent development of the current understanding of the fluid dynamics of the middle latitude atmosphere.

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This book, through its 19 chapters, highlights success stories, research outputs and various government schemes and actions taken on groundwater recharge and rainwater harvesting in developing countries.