Meteorology category: 1039 books
by Dean Goodwin, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Year after year science continually proves that global climate change is real. But what does it all really mean and what can or should we do about it?
Climate Change For Beginners is a clear, fluid narrative by a leading scientist and educator who takes a scrupulously balanced approach in...
The City and the Coming Climate
Climate Change in the Places We Live
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
This book is the first to explore the dramatic amplification of global warming underway in cities and the range of actions that individuals and governments can undertake to slow the pace of warming. A core thesis of the book is that the principal strategy currently advocated to mitigate climate change...
Lukewarming
The New Climate Science that Changes Everything
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
In Lukewarming, two environmental scientists explain the science and spin behind the headlines and come to a provocative conclusion: climate change is real, and partially man-made, but it is becoming obvious that far more warming has been forecast than will occur, with some of the catastrophic impacts...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Today's climate variability already has a large impact on water supply and protection. Millions of people are affected every year by droughts and floods. Future climate change is likely to make things worse. Many people within the water sector are aware that climate change is expected to have serious...
by John J. Berger, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Climate Myths is both a primer on climate change and a definitive rebuttal of climate science denial. The book can thus be used to help educate students, teachers, and the general public about the controversy over climate change. Climate Myths puts the campaign against climate science in historical,...
The Weather Detective
Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature's secret signs by studying the weather.
The internationally bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees shows how we can decipher nature's secret signs by studying the weather.
In this...
Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Integrating Air Chemistry and Land Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Based on more than twenty years of research and lecturing, Jordi Vilà-Guerau de Arellano and his team's textbook provides an excellent introduction to the interactions between the atmosphere and the land for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and a reference text for researchers in atmospheric...
Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Model
A Modeling Tool for the Climate Change Research Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Coupled climate system models are of central importance for climate studies. A new model known as FGOALS ( the Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System model), has been developed by the Sate Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 201.
Modeling the Ionosphere-Thermosphere System brings together for the first time a detailed description of the physics of the IT system in conjunction with numerical techniques to solve the complex...
Glaciations in North and South America from the Miocene to the Last Glacial Maximum
Comparisons, Linkages and Uncertainties
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Improved dating methods have increased our ability to more precisely determine the timing and durations of glaciations. Utilizing glacial and loess deposits, we have compared glaciations that occurred in North and South America in order to determine if events are synchronous or not, to explore forcing...
by Aronne Armanini
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This book presents key principles of the hydraulics of river basins, with a unique focus on the interplay between stream flows and sediment transport. Addressing a number of basic topics related to the hydraulics of natural waterways, it above all emphasizes applicative aspects in order to provide...
Rising Seas
Past, Present, Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
The Earth's climate is already warming due to increased concentrations of human-produced greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and the specter of rising sea level is one of global warming's most far-reaching threats. Sea level will keep rising long after greenhouse gas emissions have ceased, because...
Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical-Chemical Processes in Fractured Porous Media: Modelling and Benchmarking
From Benchmarking to Tutoring
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The book comprises the 3rd collection of benchmarks and examples for porous and fractured media mechanics. Analysis of thermo-hydro-mechanical-chemical (THMC) processes is essential to a wide area of applications in environmental engineering, such as geological waste deposition, geothermal energy...
Influence of Traffic and Land Use on Urban Stormwater Quality
Implications for Urban Stormwater Treatment Design
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This book presents a detailed analysis in relation to pollutant processes and transport pathways encompassing atmospheric pollutants, atmospheric deposition and build-up on road surfaces of traffic generated key pollutants. The research study undertaken by the authors created extensive knowledge relating...