Meteorology category: 1039 books
African Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories and Mitigation Options: Forestry, Land-Use Change, and Agriculture
Johannesburg, South Africa 29 May – June 1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases continue to increase, so does the potential for atmospheric warming and associated climate change. In an effort to address the threat of global climate change, 155 countries signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Earth Summit in...
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The Story of Camille, Lessons Unlearned from America's Most Violent Hurricane
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
". . . the authors sound a pessimistic note about society's short-term memory in their sobering, able history of Camille" --Booklist
"This highly readable account aimed at a general audience excels at telling the plight of the victims and how local political authorities reacted....
Computational Methods for the Atmosphere and the Oceans
Special Volume
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
This book provides a survey of the frontiers of research in the numerical modeling and mathematical analysis used in the study of the atmosphere and oceans. The details of the current practices in global atmospheric and ocean models, the assimilation of observational data into such models and the...
Climate Change and Cities
First Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Urban areas are home to over half the world's people and are at the forefront of the climate change issue. The need for a global research effort to establish the current understanding of climate change adaptation and mitigation at the city level is urgent. To meet this goal a coalition of international...
Climate Change and Cities
Second Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
The Urban Climate Change Research Network's Second Assessment Report on Climate Change in Cities (ARC3.2) is the second in a series of global, science-based reports to examine climate risk, adaptation, and mitigation efforts in cities. The book explicitly seeks to explore the implications of changing...
Climate Change and Infrastructure, Urban Systems, and Vulnerabilities
Technical Report for the U.S. Departmof Energy in Support of the National Climate Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Hurricane Irene ruptured a Baltimore sewer main, resulting in 100 million gallons of raw sewage flooding the local watershed. Levee failures during Hurricane Katrina resulted in massive flooding which did not recede for months. With temperatures becoming more extreme, and storms increasing in magnitude,...
Climate Change in California
Risk and Response
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
California is synonymous with opportunity, prosperity, and natural beauty, but climate change will certainly influence the state’s future. Changes will affect the economy, natural resources, public health, agriculture, and the livelihoods of its residents. But how big is the risk? How will Californians...
Visualizing Climate Change
A Guide to Visual Communication of Climate Change and Developing Local Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Carbon dioxide and global climate change are largely invisible, and the prevailing imagery of climate change is often remote (such as ice floes melting) or abstract and scientific (charts and global temperature maps).
Using dramatic visual imagery such as 3D and 4D visualizations of future...
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
Dispatches from the Front Lines
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
The ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been more aggressive, more blatant, or more widely publicized than in the case of the Hockey Stick graph—a clear and compelling visual presentation of scientific data, put together by MichaelE. Mann and his colleagues, demonstrating...
It's Raining Frogs and Fishes
Four Seasons of Natural Phenomena and Oddities of the Sky
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
It's Raining Frogs and Fishes is a generously illustrated inquiry into wonders of the sky: Why is the sky blue? Where do meteors originate? What causes rainbows, mirages, and the colors of the sunset? Why do some birds and insects migrate, and how do they navigate over hundreds or thousands of miles...
by Thomas Morris
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Once interested in the air, science soon began to take up that commonplace but baffling phase of it called the weather. Now, of all matters under the sun the weather was the deepest intrenched in superstition and hearsay. From the era of Noah it had been made the subject of more remarks unrelieved...
The Weather Book: Why It Happens And Where It Comes From
Why It Happens and Where It Comes From
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
The Weather Book is a delightful miscellany of everything remotely meteorological. It is jam-packed with enlightening facts, practical diagrams, and clear explanations about weather phenomena and why they form.
The Cloudspotter's Guide
The Science, History, and Culture of Clouds
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2007
Now in paperback: the runaway British bestseller that has cloudspotters everywhere looking up.
Where do clouds come from? Why do they look the way they do? And why have they captured the imagination of timeless artists, Romantic poets, and every kid who's ever held a crayon? Veteran journalist...
The Extreme Weather Survival Manual
214 Tips for Surviving Nature's Worst
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Extreme weather has the ability to leave us devastated, but with the easy-to-follow Extreme Weather Survival Manual you’ll be ready for anything Mother Nature throws at you. Dennis Mersereau and the editors of Outdoor Life magazine offer their life saving advice to help you survive blizzards, hurricanes,...