Meteorology and climatology

A compact yet comprehensive self-study guide that explores the power of mathematics to help us understand complex atmospheric phenomena.

This updated and expanded second edition of a much lauded work provides a current overview of the impacts of climate change on tropical forests.

This book highlights how energy-system models are used to underpin and support energy and climate mitigation policy decisions at national, multi-country and global levels.

This book presents a compilation of the latest findings from reputed researchers around the globe, covering in detail climate change and its effects on sheep production.

This book maps extreme temperature increase under dangerous climate change scenarios in Brazil and their impacts on four key sectors: agriculture, health, biodiversity and energy.

Deserts are unique ecosystems with their own biotic and abiotic components, and are often rich in renewable natural resources, the appropriate management of which can contribute significantly to the sustainable management of desert regions for the welfare of the people.

The oceans exert a vital moderating influence on the Earth's climate system.

This textbook provides a solid introduction to the theoretical and empirical aspects of environmental economics and their links to environmental policy.

It is widely acknowledged that, in addition to global and regional efforts to cope with climate change by means of mitigation measures, adaptation initiatives can and perhaps should play a key role in enabling communities from across Africa to better handle the problems related to it.

Anthropogenic influences to the earth's system, including the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, cryosphere and lithosphere, represent a serious challenge to our planet's ecosystems and natural environments.

This book shows how our new-found ability to observe the Earth from "e;the necessary distance"e; has wide and profound cultural and ethical implications.

This concise and up-to-date textbook provides an accessible introduction to the core concepts of nonlinear dynamics as well as its existing and potential applications.

A book on atmospheric convection treated in detail from different angles including the theoretical aspects of atmospheric deep convection and the weather phenomena related to convection.

This book covers all aspects related to climate change and agriculture.

Unique properties of laser radiation including its monochromatic properties, polarization, high spectral intensity, coherence, narrow beam divergence, the possibility of controlling the pulse duration and radiation spectrum and, finally, the fact that extremely high power and energy create very favorable conditions for the extensive application of lasers to communi- cation systems, systems for the lidar sensing and ultra-high-precision ranging, navigation, remote monitoring of the environment, and many other systems operating in the atmosphere.

Der Schwerpunkt der Arbeit liegt auf der biogeochemischen Analyse nordeuropäischer Moorgebiete und dem Einfluss des rezenten Klimawandels auf ihre Kohlenstoffbilanzen.

This book provides a fundamental understanding of clouds, from microphysics to climate, with supplementary problem sets and questions.

Data assimilation (DA) has been recognized as one of the core techniques for modern forecasting in various earth science disciplines including meteorology, oceanography, and hydrology.

This new edition of Air Pollution Control Equipment Selection Guide builds upon the successes of previous editions that developed a detailed discussion on various technologies used for air pollution control.

Since the late 1960s the Indonesian state of East Kalimantan has witnessed a marked increase in the impact of human activities chiefly commercial logging and agricultural exploitation.

Predictive theories of phenomena involving phase change with applications in engineering are investigated in this volume, e.

This book examines energy efficiency in the Australian built environment and presents current developments with a particular focus on the temperate setting of Victoria state.

Mixed-Phase Clouds: Observations and Modeling presents advanced research topics on mixed-phase clouds.

This book discusses emerging contexts of global warming and climate change, agricultural vulnerability and adaptation from local to global scale.

This volume sheds new light on the marine fauna and geological setting of the Tjornes Sequence, North Iceland, which is a classic site for the Pliocene and Pleistocene stratigraphy of the North Atlantic region.

The focus of this work is the development of models to estimate evapotranspiration (ET), investigating the partitioning between soil evaporation and plant transpiration at field and regional scales, and calculating ET over heterogeneous vegetated surfaces.

This book covers all aspects related to climate change and agriculture.

This book provides state-of-the art analysis, never done before in Egypt, on agro-climatic zones level.

Climate change is expected to have a drastic impact on agronomic conditions including temperature, precipitation, soil nutrients, and the incidence of disease pests, to name a few.

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.

Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration has increased globally from about 280 ppm before the Industrial Revolution (Pearman 1988) to about 353 ppm in 1990.

The study of palaeoweathering provides vital clues about past continental environments, the correlation of sedimentary deposits and processes such as the rate and timing of uplift and erosion.

This book discusses the challenges related to climate change mitigation and adaptation.

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 looks at the global importance of mountain systems, emphasizing their ecological and socio-economic role in light of climate change and globalization.

Christian George, Barbara D'Anna, Hartmut Herrmann, Christian Weller, Veronica Vaida, D.

This edited book summarizes numerous research studies on remote sensing and GIS of natural resource management for the Himalaya region done by Indian Institutions and Universities over the last decade.

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.

This book describes recent developments in the modeling of hydro-climatological processes in time and space.

To effectively utilize mesoscale dynamical simulations of the atmosphere, it is necessary to have an understanding the basic physical and mathematical foundations of the models and to have an appreciation of how a particular atmospheric system works.

The effects of climate change are beginning to impact water quantity and water quality across the globe.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), this book presents more than 50 chapters highlighting results of the institute's research.

Natural disasters such as large-scale flooding are on the increase.

This book covers advances made since the 2004 Springer volume "e;Polarized Light in Animal Vision"e; edited by Horvath and Varju, but also provides reviews and synopses of some areas.

This doctoral thesis applies measurements of ground deformation from satellite radar using their potential to play a key role in understanding volcanic and magmatic processes throughout the eruption cycle.

This book focuses on the risks that climate change poses for the health sector.

One of the most crucial but still very poorly understood topics of oceanographic science is the role of ocean processes in contributing to the dynamics of climate and global change.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of climate variability and change in Africa, and includes impact assessments and case studies from integration frameworks, with a particular focus on climate, agriculture and water resources.

Awareness that many key aspects of public health are strongly influenced by climate is growing dramatically, driven by new research and experience and fears of climate change and the research needed to underpin policy developments in area is growing rapidly.