Meteorology and climatology

As the world has transformed, so have cities.

The agriculture system is under pressure to increase production every year as global population expands and more people move from a diet mostly made up of grains, to one with more meat, dairy and processed foods.

This book showcases powerful new hybrid methods that combine numerical and symbolic algorithms.

Arctic Communications is a compilation of the proceedings of the Eighth Meeting of the Ionospheric Research Committee of NATO's Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research and Development, held in Athens, Greece in July 1963.

Climate Change: Alternate Governance Policy for South Asia provides an assessment of climate change issues through the socioeconomic lens of one of the world's poorest, most populous regions.

Dieses Buch, das in die Gebiete, Methoden und Ergebnisse der Extraterrestrischen Physik einführen möchte, wendet sich an ein relativ breites Publikum.

This book focuses on cloud-based platforms, advanced programming, machine learning models and programming approaches to assess water and other natural resources, flood impact, land use land cover (LULC), global forest change, global forest canopy height and pantropical nation-level carbon stock, among other areas.

This book offers valuable climate policy and climate assessment lessons, depicting what it takes to build a sustained climate assessment process.

As greenhouse gas emissions and temperatures at the poles continue to rise, so do damages from extreme weather events affecting countless lives.

Monitoring of Air Pollutants: Sampling, Sample Preparation and Analytical Techniques provides a comprehensive reference on air pollutant monitoring, addressing experimental approaches to sampling and sample preparation, as well as analytical technologies (instrumental methods) which are applicable to a wide range of topics.

The enormous progress over the last decades in our understanding of the mechanisms behind the complex system "e;Earth"e; is to a large extent based on the availability of enlarged data sets and sophisticated methods for their analysis.

This book discusses the impacts of climate change that are already being felt on every continent and provides the scientific basis for a number of modern approaches and state-of-the art methods for monitoring the environment, social behavior and human expectations concerning protection of the environment.

Murry Salby''s textbook provides an integrated treatment of processes controlling the Earth-atmosphere system for students and researchers.

Remote sensing stands as the defining technology in our ability to monitor coral reefs, as well as their biophysical properties and associated processes, at regional to global scales.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of issues related to climate change in the Pacific and will be an invaluable reference for those working in this important field.

The book is based on the results of the investigations of the authors in the semi-arid and arid regions (ASAR) of the globe.

Reducing the cost of space program interests people more and more nowadays due to the concerns of budget limitation and commercialization of space technology.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

Covers the background, methods, and case studies of uranium isotopes (238U/235U), a tool for understanding Earth''s environmental transitions.

This book addresses the most pressing water resource issues in South Asia, particularly in relation to climate change and variability.

Reference on numerical weather prediction for academic researchers, meteorologists, and graduate students.

This book shows that escalating climate destruction today is not the product of public indifference, but of the blocked democratic freedoms of peoples across the world to resist unwanted degrees of capitalist interference with their ecological fate or capacity to change the course of ecological disaster.

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This book highlights the role that both infrastructure and governance play in the context of resilience and adaptation to climate variability and change.

Unknown to most people, there are innumerable microbial species that accomplish vital ecosystem functions while residing in a suspended state in the troposphere or resting on crop canopies.

I am pleased to present this volume of invited reviews and research case studies, produced to mark the retirement of Professor A.

One of the most dire consequences of global climate change for coral reefs is the increased frequency and severity of mass coral bleaching events.

This book presents recent lessons learned in the context of research and development for various dryland ecosystems, focusing on water resources management, land and vegetation cover degradation and remediation, and socioeconomic aspects, as well as integrated approaches to ensuring water and land security in view of the current and predicted climate change.

This book is a product of the initial phase of a broader study evaluating the voluntary and regulatory compliance protocols that are used to account for the contributions of forests in U.

This book gives the most detailed and comprehensive physico-geographical overview of the very unique country of Mongolia.

When considering biosphere-atmosphere exchange of trace gases and volatile aerosols, significant advances have been made both from an experimental and modelling point of view and on several scales.

Written primarily for serving and trainee deck officers, those studying for certificates of competency in merchant shipping and fishermen, Reeds Maritime Meteorology analyses the elements and forces which contribute to maritime meteorology and the principles which govern them.

This volume outlines the fundamentals and applications of light scattering, absorption and polarization processes involving ice crystals.

This book presents new research on the geomorphological impacts of extreme precipitation events.

This book assesses the vulnerability impacts of climate change on food security by examining a 50 years scenario (2015- 2065) and following a top-down approach.

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Oxidation and removal of atmospheric constituents involve complex sequences of reactions which can lead to the production of photo-oxidants such as ozone.

This edited volume provides a variety of insights into the context in which ocean and wetlands policy is placed at the sub-continental level.

This book focuses on the emerging health issues due to climate change, particularly emphasizing the situation in developing countries.

Reconstruction of the climate variability of the past 500 years is a topic of great scientific interest not only in global terms, but also at regional and local levels.

This book discusses various climate smart agro-technologies, their technical and economic feasibility across heterogeneous agro-climatic conditions, assessing farmers' willingness to adopt those technologies, impact of climate smart technology in agricultural production and possible policy and investment opportunities to upscale it.

Coral reefs are the largest landforms built by plants and animals.

In this study energy-exchange processes and climatic influences are examined in relation to thermal comfort and work efficiency as exemplified in a schoolroom situation.

The second edition of Dessler and Parson's acclaimed book provides an integrated treatment of the science, technology, economics, policy, and politics of climate change.

This textbook introduces fundamental dynamics of tropical atmosphere and ocean useful for advanced graduate courses in atmospheric and climate sciences.

In order to avoid the potentially catastrophic impacts of global warming, the current 3% CO2 global emission growth rate must be transformed to a 1 to 3% declining rate, as soon as possible.

The book addresses the vital and interwoven areas of energy, environment, and the economy within the field of sustainability research.

'I never knew air could be so interesting' Bill Bryson'A wonderful lesson in how science works' Simon Singh, Daily Telegraph____________________We not only live in the air, we live because of it.