Meteorology category: 1039 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
The global food security and sustainable agriculture are the key challenges before the scientific community in the present era of enhanced climate variability, rapidly rising population and dwindling resources. No part of the world is immune from meteorological extremes of one sort or another posing...
Climate Change
The Ipcc Response Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Climate Change is the report of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization and UNEP to address the threat of global warming on an international scale.
Blowing Smoke
Essays on Energy and Climate
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
From the Foreword by Prof. Judith Curry of Georgia Tech:“Istvan’s insightful and incisive writing in Blowing Smoke tackles a diverse array of topics related to climate and energy that are highly relevant to the current public debate. His writing is accessible to the public who may not have the inclination,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Effects of Climate Change and Viarability on the Agricultural Production Systems provides an integrated assessment of global climate change's impact on agriculture at the farm level, in the context of farm level adaptation decisions. Ten agricultural areas in the Upper Midwest region - the heart of...
by Kyrill Ya Kondratyev, Arthur P. Cracknell
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
This collaborative book aims to offer a comprehensive introduction to global climate, the way it is currently changing, the role of earth, air and satellite observation and monitoring, and subsequent climate modelling. It focuses on the interaction between natural and anthropogenic human- made change...
by Maged Marghany
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
The innovation in space technologies has generated a new method for observing and monitoring tsunamis from space. Most tsunami remote sensing studies focus on using classical image processing tools or conventional edge detection procedures. However, these methods do not use modern physics, applied...
Wine and Place
A Terroir Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The concept of terroir is one of the most celebrated and controversial subjects in wine today. Most will agree that well-made wine has the capacity to express “somewhereness,” a set of consistent aromatics, flavors, or textures that amount to a signature expression of place. But for every advocate...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Social and natural scientists often are called upon to produce, or participate, in the pro duction of forecasts. This volume assembles essays that (a) describe the organizational and political context of applied forecasting, (b) review the state-of-the-art for many fore casting models and methods,...
Grandma Says
Weather Lore From Meteorlogist Cindy Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
On Cindy Day’s grandmother’s farm, the weather wasn’t predicted with a computer or official forecast, but by accumulated wisdom and careful observation. Cindy’s grandma was a constant prognosticator, making predictions about the weather that more often than not, proved correct!
Grandma...
by Jerry B. Griffiths, Jiří Podolský
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Einstein's theory of general relativity is a theory of gravity and, as in the earlier Newtonian theory, much can be learnt about the character of gravitation and its effects by investigating particular idealised examples. This book describes the basic solutions of Einstein's equations with a particular...
Tying Down the Wind
Adventures in the Worst Weather on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2000
Where can you find the worst weather on earth? The surprising answer in Tying Down the Wind is: everywhere! You don’t need to climb Mount Everest or voyage to the icy desert of Antarctica to witness both the beauty and the destructiveness of weather. The same forces are at work in your own backyard.
Tying...
The Stratosphere
Phenomena, History, and Relevance
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book presents the history, phenomena, and relevance of the stratosphere. Beginning with the discovery of the stratosphere itself, the book explores various unexpected phenomena observed in the stratosphere, such as the ozone hole in 1984 and the influence of the 11-year solar cycle in 1987. It...
Start of a Glacial
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Correlating Records of the Past held at Cabo Blanco, Mallorca, Spain, April 4–10, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Some 115 thousand years ago the world as we know it today shifted into a much colder glacial mode which culminated with huge ice sheets reaching as far south as New York, Berlin and St. Petersburg. The numerical climate models, used to predict the next century climate, were as yet unable to explain...
by S.D. Schery
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is intended as an introduction to radioactivity and aerosols for the scientifically literate reader who has had no previous exposure to either of these subjects. Although its main focus is radioactive aerosols, on the road to this subject I provide short, somewhat independent introductions...