Meteorology category: 1039 books
by Robert Henson
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Everybody can be a thinking person when it comes to climate change, and this book is a perfect roadmap. Start a web search for “climate change” and the first three suggestions are “facts,” “news,” and “hoax.” The Thinking Person's Guide to Climate Change is rooted in the first, up...
Machine Learning and Data Mining Approaches to Climate Science
Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Climate Informatics
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
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. Given its interdisciplinary nature, Climate Informatics offers insights, tools and methods that...
The Economics of Climate Change
The Stern Review
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2007
There is now clear scientific evidence that emissions from economic activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels for energy, are causing changes to the Earth´s climate. A sound understanding of the economics of climate change is needed in order to underpin an effective global response to this...
by Orrin H. Pilkey, Rob Young
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
On Shishmaref Island in Alaska, homes are being washed into the sea. In the South Pacific, small island nations face annihilation by encroaching waters. In coastal Louisiana, an area the size of a football field disappears every day. For these communities, sea level rise isn’t a distant, abstract...
Climate Change and Tradition in a Small Island State
The Rising Tide
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The citizens of the Marshall Islands have been told that climate change will doom their country, and they have seen confirmatory omens in the land, air, and sea. This book investigates how grassroots Marshallese society has interpreted and responded to this threat as intimated by local observation,...
Primer on Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Facts, Policy Analysis, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2005
Climate change and variability has become the primary environmental concern of the 21st Century. The potential impacts and mitigation of climate change need to be analyzed within the context of sustainable development. Primer on Climate Change and Sustainable Development presents a condensed and accessible...
Understanding the Earth System
Compartments, Processes and Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This volume includes revised versions of most of the presentations made at the International Conference «Understanding the Earth Sys tem: Compartments, Processes and Interactions" held on November 24-26, 1999 in Bonn. The Conference was organized by the German National Committee on Global...
by An Liu, Ashantha Goonetilleke, Prasanna Egodawatta
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
The key highlights of the book include an innovative rainfall classification methodology based on stormwater quality to support the planning and design of stormwater treatment systems. Additionally, this book provides a practical approach to effective stormwater treatment design and development of...
by V.P. Singh
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Since the pioneering work of Shannon in the late 1940's on the development of the theory of entropy and the landmark contributions of Jaynes a decade later leading to the development of the principle of maximum entropy (POME), the concept of entropy has been increasingly applied in a wide spectrum...
Science as a Contact Sport
Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
It’s been nearly four decades since scientists first realized that global warming posed a potential threat to our planet. Why, if we knew of the threats way back in the Carter Administration, can’t we act decisively to limit greenhouse gases, deforestation, and catastrophic warming trends? Why...
Climate Change, Service Economy and Industry
With Empirical Cases & Theories
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
This book shows how industries perceive weather as they pose their positioning in climate change adaptation. With empirical analysis, this books extends policy discussion. Weather and climate related industries are clearly knowledge intensive service sectors that have not blossomed yet.
Holding...
The Atlas of Climate Change
Mapping the World's Greatest Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
This highly acclaimed atlas distills the vast science of climate change, providing a reliable and insightful guide to this rapidly growing field. Since the 2006 publication of the first edition, climate change has climbed even higher up the global agenda. This new edition reflects the latest developments...
by Peter Michael Inness, Steve Dorling
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book offers a complete primer, covering the end-to-end process of forecast production, and bringing together a description of all the relevant aspects together in a single volume; with plenty of explanation of some of the more complex issues and examples of current, state-of-the-art practices.
Operational...
Issues in the Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Agriculture
Applications to the southeastern United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This book presents a collection of articles concerning key topics which examine the impacts of climate change and variability on agriculture. The application region is the southeastern United States. The main topics include an investigation of the effect of variations in the spatial scale of climate...