Meteorology category: 1039 books
Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories
Interim Results from the U.S. Country Studies Program
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
International concern for the continued growth of greenhouse gas emissions, and the potentially damaging consequences of resultant global climate change, led to the signing of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change by 155 nations at the Earth Summit in June 1992. The Convention...
The White Planet
The Evolution and Future of Our Frozen World
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
From the Arctic Ocean and ice sheets of Greenland, to the glaciers of the Andes and Himalayas, to the great frozen desert of Antarctica, The White Planet takes readers on a spellbinding scientific journey through the shrinking world of ice and snow to tell the story of the expeditions and discoveries...
Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum
How Humans Took Control of Climate
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
The impact on climate from 200 years of industrial development is an everyday fact of life, but did humankind's active involvement in climate change really begin with the industrial revolution, as commonly believed? Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum has sparked lively scientific debate since it was first...
Evidence-Based Climate Science
Data Opposing CO2 Emissions as the Primary Source of Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Global warming and human-induced climate change are perhaps the most important scientific issues of our time. These issues continue to be debated in the scientific community and in the media without true consensus about the role of greenhouse gas emissions as a contributing factor.
Evidence-Based...
by David Randall
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
This is a graduate-level textbook on the global circulation of the Earth's atmosphere—the large-scale system of winds by which energy is transported around the planet, from the tropical latitudes to the poles. Written by David Randall, one of the world’s foremost experts on the subject, it is...
Protecting the Ozone Layer
Lessons, Models, and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Protecting the Ozone Layer: Lessons, Models, and Prospects Since the mid-1980s, the international community has adopted several significant instruments designed to reverse the degradation of the life support systems of the planet. None of these international agreements have been as successful as the...
Climate and Water
Transboundary Challenges in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Climate and Water: Transboundary Challenges in the Americas explores some of the ways that climate, hydrology, and water resource management converge at the borders between jurisdictions and countries in the western Hemisphere. This book is unique in focusing on case studies of climate-hydrology-water...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
The Mediterranean basin represents one of the most important “hot spots” of climate change in the world, with recent trends towards a hotter and drier climate being related to changes in atmospheric circulation patterns. Such changes can have significant impacts in the climate of this region but...
by Zongxing Li
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
This thesis confirms many changes, including sharp temperature rise, interannual variability of precipitation, extreme climate events and significant decreases of sunshine duration and wind speed in southwestern China, and systemically explores the action mechanism between large-scale atmospheric...
by Elena Ivanova
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2009
Originally published in Russian in 2006, this is the first English translation of this important book on paleoceanography and paleoclimatology. Its initial publication was followed by a surge of interest in this subject prompting the author to revise and translate her original work. In the book, she...
“Hot Spots” in the Climate System
New Developments in the Extratropical Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
This book consists of the articles from the special issue of “‘Hot Spots’ in the Climate System” in the Journal of Oceanography, Vol. 71 No. 5, 2015, comprising 9 chapters that cover a wide spectrum of topics. This spinoff book is a collection of papers on the scientific outcomes of a nationwide...
Quasi-Geostrophic Theory of Oceans and Atmosphere
Topics in the Dynamics and Thermodynamics of the Fluid Earth
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
Large-scale winds and currents tend to balance Coriolis and pressure gradient forces. The time evolution of these winds and currents is the subject of the quasi-geostrophic theory.
Chapter 1 presents concepts and equations of classical inertial fluid mechanics.
Chapter 2 deals with the equations of...
by W. M. Telford, L. P. Geldart, R. E. Sheriff
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 1990
This is the completely revised and updated version of the popular and highly regarded textbook, Applied Geophysics. It describes the physical methods involved in exploration for hydrocarbons and minerals, which include gravity, magnetic, seismic, electrical, electromagnetic, radioactivity, and well-logging...
Ground Vibration Engineering
Simplified Analyses with Case Studies and Examples
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Ground vibration consideration is gaining significance with people’s decreasing tolerance of vibration, introduction of new environmental legislations, increasing use of equipment sensitive to vibration, ageing of existing buildings and expanding construction sites to/near collapsible/liquefiable/thixotropic...