A wondrous story of scientific endeavorprobing the great ice sheets of AntarcticaFrom the moment explorers set foot on the ice of Antarctica in the early nineteenth century, they desired to learn what lay beneath.
A wondrous story of scientific endeavorprobing the great ice sheets of AntarcticaFrom the moment explorers set foot on the ice of Antarctica in the early nineteenth century, they desired to learn what lay beneath.
This book describes the evolution and development of the Division's research throughout the years and the ways in which scientists responded to the needs of the community.
Windows on Meteorology: Australian Perspective answers a host of questions about Australia's weather and climate, and explains the underlying causes of floods, droughts and cyclones.
The unpredictability of Australia’s climate poses real challenges for practices that were developed based on the relative predictability of a European climate.
This book provides a critical theoretical framework for understanding the implementation and development of smart cities as innovation drivers, with long-term effects on productivity, livability, and the sustainability of specific initiatives.
Climate, climate change, climate fluctuations and climatic trends are only a few of the terms used today, in not only conferences, scientific symposia and workshops, but also parliaments and in discussions throughout society.
This book provides a critical theoretical framework for understanding the implementation and development of smart cities as innovation drivers, with long-term effects on productivity, livability, and the sustainability of specific initiatives.
The West without Water documents the tumultuous climate of the American West over twenty millennia, with tales of past droughts and deluges and predictions about the impacts of future climate change on water resources.
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.
Unified treatment of physical principles of planetary climates for advanced students and researchers in atmospheric science, Earth and planetary science.
Unified treatment of physical principles of planetary climates for advanced students and researchers in atmospheric science, Earth and planetary science.
Provides a comprehensive yet accessible treatment of computer-based weather and climate prediction, for graduate students, researchers and professionals.
Provides a comprehensive yet accessible treatment of computer-based weather and climate prediction, for graduate students, researchers and professionals.
This book introduces turbulence in the atmosphere and in engineering flows to advanced students, and provides a reference work for atmospheric researchers.
A graduate textbook on the interdisciplinary significance of hydroclimatology, explaining the relationship between the climate system and the hydrologic cycle.
A quantitative introduction to atmospheric physics for intermediate-advanced undergraduate and graduate students, with an emphasis on the underlying physical principles.
This book provides a background to the fundamental principles of parameterization physics for accurate numerical predictions of cloud and precipitation.
Nobel Prize-winning scientist''s assessment of options for switching to sustainable energy provision to avert potentially disastrous consequences of climate change.
This book aims to cover most subject areas of green infrastructure such as components, multi-functionality, and integration to build environment, contribution to urban sustainability, sustainable and smart city development, urban climate change nexus, green buildings and rating systems, economic assessment, and quantification of green infrastructure.
