Meteorology category: 1039 books
Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes
Impact on Climate and Air Quality
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Wildfires, changing glaciers, deforestation, open-pit mining, increasing demands for food and bio-fuel production and the growth of megacities change our landscape. The book comprehensively reviews the current knowledge on how natural and anthropogenic land-use/cover changes affect weather, air quality...
An Introduction to Clouds
From the Microscale to Climate
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
An Introduction to Clouds provides a fundamental understanding of clouds, ranging from cloud microphysics to the large-scale impacts of clouds on climate. On the microscale, phase changes and ice nucleation are covered comprehensively, including aerosol particles and thermodynamics relevant for the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This contributed volume presents a multi-perspective collection of the latest research findings on oil and gas exploration and imparts insight that can greatly assist in understanding field behavior, design of test programs, and design of field operations. With this book, engineers also gain a powerful...
by Alfio V. Parisi, Jeff Sabburg, Michael G. Kimlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This textbook provides a comprehensive understanding of the scattered and filtered solar UV environment, the techniques to measure this radiation and the resulting UV exposures to humans. As is well known, the incidence of skin cancer and sun-related eye disorders can be reduced by minimization exposure...
Climate Change in Deserts
Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
Reconstructing climatic changes in deserts and their margins at a variety of scales in space and time, this book draws upon evidence from land and sea, including desert dunes, wind-blown dust, river and lake sediments, glacial moraines, plant and animal fossils, isotope geochemistry, speleothems,...
Aridity
Droughts and Human Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
At the intersection of environmental science and human biology, this book deals with dry ecosystems, the societies so affected, and the inventiveness of those living under such conditions. It also tries to answer the question of whether long-lasting development is possible in dry environments.
Water, Environment and Society in Times of Climatic Change
Contributions from an International Workshop within the framework of International Hydrological Program (IHP) UNESCO, held at Ben-Gurion University, Sede Boker, Israel from 7–12 July 1996
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Since the greenhouse effect emerged as a predictable threat, necessitating the evalu ation of its future impact on the environment in the various parts of the globe, interest in the climate changes during the Holocene has gained momentum. The background can be summarized by the sentence: The past...
by Srinivasan Chandrasekaran
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
This book attempts to provide readers with an overall idea of various types of offshore platform geometries. It covers the various environmental loads encountered by these structures, a detailed description of the fundamentals of structural dynamics in a class-room style, estimate of damping in offshore...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Biomass burning profoundly affects atmospheric chemistry, the carbon cycle, and climate and may have done so for millions of years.
Bringing together renowned experts from paleoecology, fire ecology, atmospheric chemistry, and organic chemistry, the volume elucidates the role of fire during global...
Solar Ultraviolet Radiation
Modelling, Measurements and Effects
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Following the rapid developments in the UV-B measurement techniques and the rapidly growing research in the field in the late 80's and early 90's, we organized a large gathering of distinguished experts in a NATO Advanced Study Institute, held in Halkidiki, Greece on October, 2-11. 1995. The Institute...
Eddy Covariance
A Practical Guide to Measurement and Data Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
This highly practical handbook is an exhaustive treatment of eddy covariance measurement that will be of keen interest to scientists who are not necessarily specialists in micrometeorology. The chapters cover measuring fluxes using eddy covariance technique, from the tower installation and system...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
It is clear that hydraulic research is developing beyond traditional civil engineering to satisfy increasing demands in natural hazards assessment and also environmental research. Our ability to describe processes in nature rests on the observation and experimental methods as well as on theoretical...
Monitoring of Gaseous Pollutants by Tunable Diode Lasers
Proceedings of the International Symposium held in Freiburg, F.R.G. 17–18 October 1988
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Proceedings of the International Symposium held in Freiburg, F.R.G., October 17-18, 1988 organized by the Fraunhofer Institut für Physikalische Messtechnik (Freiburg) under the Auspices of the Commission of the European Communities
Paleoclimatology
Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2013
Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary, Third Edition—winner of a 2015 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from The Text and Academic Authors Association—provides a thorough overview of the methods of paleoclimatic reconstruction and of the historical changes in climate during...