Meteorology and climatology

Reviewing the history and causes of climatic change and evaluating regional models, this New Naturalist volume offers an important analysis of climatic variations.

Environmental factors in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have played a crucial role in the historical and social development of the region.

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This volume explores and evaluates the development, multiple applications, and usefulness of four-dimensional (space and time) model assimilations of data in the atmospheric and oceanographic sciences and projects their applicability to the earth sciences as a whole.

Was kann national und international wirklich gegen die dro-hende Klimakatastrophe getan werden?

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.

One of major challenges facing Earth's science in the nextdecade and beyondis the development of an accurate longterm observational data set to study global change.

Climate change is affecting the Arctic environment and ecosystems at an accelerating speed, twice the rate of the global average.

Asian Atmospheric Pollution: Sources, Characteristics and Impacts provides a concise yet comprehensive treatment of all aspects of pollution and air quality monitoring, across all of Asia.

Outside Russia very little is known about the terrestrial ecology, vegetation, biogeographical patterns, and biodiversity of the enormously extensive ecosystems of Yakutia, Siberia.

'Big freeze' conditions, storms, severe flooding, droughts, and heatwaves - recent extremes in weather, with their resultant physical, economic and human losses, highlight the vulnerability of society to changes in the atmosphere.

Jens Bosenberg Max-Planck-Institut fur Meteorologie, Bundesstr.

In this text, modern applied mathematics and physical insight are used to construct the simplest and first nonlinear dynamical model for the Madden-Julian oscillation (MJO), i.

This book explores how climate change and disaster risks threaten human security in Asia.

This book discusses an emerging context of climate change, environmental degradation, monitoring and management, agricultural vulnerability and its development and adaptation from local to global scale.

An invaluable reference for all researchers and policy makers with an interest in climate change and Africa.

The NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Coupling Processes in the Lower and Middle atmosphere held in Loen, Norway in May 1992 was, in the estimation of apparently all participants, an enormous success.

Achieving sustainability is perhaps the single-most important task for our generation.

This book recommends the initiation of an "e;integrated"e; research program to study the role of aerosols in the predicted global climate change.

Convergent plate margins and subduction zones are first order features shaping the Earth.

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

This book comprises select papers presented at the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2018).

This book includes information, experiences, practical initiatives and projects around the subject matter and makes it available to a wide audience.

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.

Weather, Macroweather, and the Climate is an insider's attempt to explain as simply as possible how to understand the atmospheric variability that occurs over an astonishing range of scales: from millimeters to the size of the planet, from milliseconds to billions of years.

The book presents a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) research.

This book uses critical metaphor analysis to show from a cognitive perspective how climate change is conceptualized in the USA.

This Brief presents the multi criteria decision making (MCDM) techniques like Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Fuzzy Analytical Network Process (ANP) to find out the importance of the influencing factors to develop the Climatic Vulnerability Index (CVI) that will represent the vulnerability of the Hydro-Power Plant (HPP) to climatic abnormalities.

Climate dynamicists generally characterize the Hadley circulation in terms of some derived meteorological parameters, such as the mass stream function (the nondivergent part of the flow) or the velocity potential (the divergent circulation), both of which are based on measurements of the three-dimensional wind field.

This presents top scientific research by leading researchers and practitioners on the critical issue of adapting to climate change.

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

Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities: Emerging Approaches and Tools for Climate-Sensitive Urban Development starts with a presentation of three widespread Urban Metaphors, which are gaining increasing attention from urban planners and decision-makers: Smart City, Resilient City and Transition Towns, being all of them focused on the need for enhancing cities' capacities to cope with the multiple and heterogeneous challenges threatening contemporary cities and their future development and, above all, with climate issues.

As models of the Earth/atmosphere system and observations become ever more sophisticated, and concerns about climate change and societal impacts of extreme weather and its forecasting grow, understanding the role of clouds in the atmosphere is increasingly vital.

Angelo Secchi was a key figure in 19th century science.

Insect science is fast changing as insects are evolving to a plethora of newer chemical molecules, climate change, management tactics and transformation of the landscapes.

Global Warming: The Hard Science presents a comprehensive, qualitatively rigorous, and critical discussion of the science underlying the global warming issue.

Climate change is directly linked to the human activities, according to the Fourth Assessment Report of IPCC (2007).

Water is an extremely important factor in global environmental change.

Somos los del tiempo de TVE, los mismos que entramos cada día en vuestras casas para avanzaros si viene una ola de calor, lluvias torrenciales o la nevada del siglo.

In tropical latitudes, monsoons trigger regimes of strong seasonal rainfall over the continents.

This is the first comprehensive science-based primer to highlight the unique ecosystem services provided by mangrove forests, and discuss how these services preserve the livelihoods of coastal populations.

The second edition of this book has been completely updated.

This book presents innovative work in Climate Informatics, a new field that reflects the application of data mining methods to climate science, and shows where this new and fast growing field is headed.

This book highlights ionospheric delay investigation and forecasting using GPS-TEC measurements in the equatorial region.

This is a comprehensive treatment for advanced students and researchers in climatology, environmental science, geography, meteorology, agricultural science, and forestry.

This book focuses on land and disaster governance in Asian countries.