Meteorology category: 1039 books
Reading the Clouds
How You Can Forecast the Weather
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Wouldn't it be useful to be able to accurately predict the weather simply by reading the clouds? Well, with this book, you can!
TV forecasts, online predictions and smartphone apps are all based on the same data – a number-crunched overview of how air pressure and temperature affect the weather...
by Steven P. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Weather science writer and analyst Steven Roberts invites you to come along as he goes well beyond discussing blizzards, climate change, El Niño, flash flooding and hurricanes. Here, you’ll learn about the Alberta Clipper, cell splitters, diurnal swing, omega blocks, snow bombs, train echo wave...
by Steven R. Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the past decade, the field of trenchless technology has expanded rapidly in products, equipment, and utilization. This expansion would not have occurred without a strong increase in economic incentives to the user. Because the operating environment has changed, trenchless technology is often the...
Past Climate Variability in South America and Surrounding Regions
From the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
South America is a unique place where a number of past climate archives are ava- able from tropical to high latitude regions. It thus offers a unique opportunity to explore past climate variability along a latitudinal transect from the Equator to Polar regions and to study climate teleconnections....
by Edward E. Rochon
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2015
The opening preface notes why high torque airplanes have never been a consideration of air design, early requirements of heavy lift better met with airships, and awkward objects to remote areas moved by heavy lift helicopters with their vertical takeoff and landing capability. A purpose is created...
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1879 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Glacial Epochs and Warm Polar Climates' is an essay on various geological ages in the earth's history. Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8th January 1823...
The Divine Thunderbolt
Missile of the Gods
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
The divine thunderbolt is one of the most ancient and pervasive religio-folkloric symbols of the human race. The divine thunderbolta sudden, never-missing missile of supernatural firehas been a universal worldwide phenomenon since prehistoric times. Some thunderbolt motifs were indigenous to a given...
Global Weirdness
Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas and the Weather of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Produced by Climate Central—a highly regarded independent, nonprofit journalism and research foundation founded in 2008—and reviewed by scientists at major educational and research institutions the world over, Global Weirdness summarizes, in clear and accessible prose, everything we know about...
The Flooded Earth
Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Sea level rise will happen no matter what we do. Even if we stopped all carbon dioxide emissions today, the seas would rise one meter by 2050 and three meters by 2100. This-not drought, species extinction, or excessive heat waves-will be the most catastrophic effect of global warming. And it won't...
by Mark Maslin
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
In this wide-ranging Very Short Introduction to climate, Mark Maslin considers all aspects of the global climate system, exploring and explaining the different components that control climate on Earth. He considers the processes that allow energy to reach the Earth and how it is redistributed around...
Defining the Wind
The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“Nature, rightly questioned, never lies.” —A Manual of Scientific Enquiry, Third Edition, 1859
Scott Huler was working as a copy editor for a small publisher when he stumbled across the Beaufort Wind Scale in his Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary. It was one of those moments of discovery...
Living in a Dangerous Climate
Climate Change and Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Living in a Dangerous Climate provides a journey through human and Earth history, showing how a changing climate has affected human evolution and society. Is it possible for humanity to evolve quickly, or is slow, gradual, genetic evolution the only way we change? Why did all other Homo species go...
Modern Climate Change Science
An Overview of Today’s Climate Change Science
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Composed of two extensive sections, this book surveys important work in climate change science, mainly in the United States, and introduces contributions to the body of science that have arrived on the scene between January 2013 and February 2014.
The opening section offers a broad examination...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Who was the first Roman Emperor? The creation of an empire begins with a leader. In this book, you will be learning about how emperors are made and what their young lives were lie. Learning about the past will lead you to answers about the present and maybe a peak into the future too. Get a copy of this book today!