Meteorology category: 1039 books
Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris
The Effort to Contain Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
The essential primer for understanding climate diplomacy, describing both the major players and the path to progress, from the 1992 Rio Summit to the 2015 Paris Climate Conference Climate Diplomacy from Rio to Paris is the first accessible overview of climate diplomacy in its first quarter century. The...
by David Randall
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2012
The atmosphere is critical to climate change. It can amplify shifts in the climate system, and also mitigate them. This primer offers a short, reader-friendly introduction to these atmospheric processes and how they work, written by a leading expert on the subject.
Giving readers an overview...
by Phil Jones, Deliang Chen, Alexander Walther
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
This Atlas presents records of climatic variability and change in Europe starting before 1901 and focuses especially on trends of extreme temperatures and precipitation. The authors have used software developed within EMULATE (European and North Atlantic daily to MULtidecadal climATE variability)...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
STRUCTURE OF THE VOLUME AND TERMINOLOGY USED This book contains scientific descriptions of 63 localities (Figure A) of at least national importance for Quaternary geology, geomorphology and environmental change in South-West England. These sites were selected by the Geological Conservation Review...
by Howard Friel, Thomas E. Lovejoy
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Make It Rain
State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Weather control. Juxtaposing those two words is enough to raise eyebrows in a world where even the best weather models still fail to nail every forecast, and when the effects of climate change on sea level height, seasonal averages of weather phenomena, and biological behavior are being watched with...
Climate Change Modeling Methodology
Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
The Earth's average temperature has risen by 1.4°F over the past century, and computer models project that it will rise much more over the next hundred years, with significant impacts on weather, climate, and human society. Many climate scientists attribute these increases to the build up of greenhouse...
Storm
Nature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Gales, cyclones, blizzards, tornados, and hurricanes—few things demonstrate the awesome power of nature like a good storm. Devastating, diverse, and sometimes appearing completely out of nowhere, storms are also a source of both scientific and aesthetic wonder. In this book, John Withington takes...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
At a time of so much politicized debate over the phenomenon of global warming, the second edition of The Future of the World's Climate places the discussion in a broader geological, paleo-climatic, and astronomical context. This book is a resource based on reviews of current climate science and supported...
The Right to Be Cold
One Woman's Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
A “courageous and revelatory memoir” (Naomi Klein) chronicling the life of the leading Indigenous climate change, cultural, and human rights advocate
For the first ten years of her life, Sheila Watt-Cloutier traveled only by dog team. Today there are more snow machines than dogs in her...
Basic Earthquake Engineering
From Seismology to Analysis and Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
This book provides senior undergraduate students, master students and structural engineers who do not have a background in the field with core knowledge of structural earthquake engineering that will be invaluable in their professional lives. The basics of seismotectonics, including the causes, magnitude,...
Discours de la méthode
philosophie
Language: French
Release Date: December 30, 2015
René Descartes fut un philosophe dont l'oeuvre, "La géométrie", inclut son application de l'algèbre à la géométrie dont nous avons, de nos jours, extrait la géométrie cartésienne. Le Discours de la méthode...
Airborne Measurements for Environmental Research
Methods and Instruments
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
This first comprehensive review of airborne measurement principles covers all atmospheric components and surface parameters. It describes the common techniques to characterize aerosol particles and cloud/precipitation elements, while also explaining radiation quantities and pertinent hyperspectral...
Atmospheric Physics
Background – Methods – Trends
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
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.
The book provides an up-to-date, in-depth survey across the entire field of atmospheric...