Meteorology category: 1039 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Full document description: Weather is never static. It is always dynamic. Its interpretation is an art. The environment is in control in wildland firefighting. Free-burning fires are literally nourished by weather elements, atmospheric components, and atmospheric motion. Outguessing Mother Nature...
The Earth's Ionosphere
Plasma Physics and Electrodynamics
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Although interesting in its own right, due to the ever-increasing use of satellites for communication and navigation, weather in the ionosphere is of great concern. Every such system uses trans-ionospheric propagation of radio waves, waves which must traverse the commonly turbulent ionosphere. Understanding...
Hurricanes of the North Atlantic
Climate and Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 1999
Called the greatest storms on the planet, hurricanes of the North Atlantic Ocean often cause tremendous social and economic upheaval in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean. And with the increasing development of coastal areas, the impact of these storms will likely increase. This book provides...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
This book presents a selection of the best papers from the HEaRT 2015 conference, held in Lisbon, Portugal, which provided a valuable forum for engineers and architects, researchers and educators to exchange views and findings concerning the technological history, construction features and seismic...
Too Late.
How we lost the battle with climate change
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Too little, too late.The physical evidence of climate change is becoming more dramatic every year: record-breaking heatwaves, retreating forests, polar ice melting, floods, droughts and storms. Climate scientists are concerned that much of this is now irreversible with disastrous consequences for all...
by J. David Neelin
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Provides students with a solid foundation in climate science, with which to understand global warming, natural climate variations, and climate models. As climate models are one of our primary tools for predicting and adapting to climate change, it is vital we appreciate their strengths and limitations....
by Richard M. Bateman
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2014
This book addresses vital issues, such as the evaluation of shale gas reservoirs and their production. Topics include the cased-hole logging environment, reservoir fluid properties; flow regimes; temperature, noise, cement bond, and pulsed neutron logging; and casing inspection. Production logging...
Tree Rings
Basics and Applications of Dendrochronology
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
At a meeting of dendrochronologists an American colleague described the effects of volcanic eruptions on annual ring formation in bristlecone pines. I knew very little about either volcanoes or American pines! At the same meeting European scientists spoke on the dendrochronological dating of lakeshore...
by William C. Foster
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Climate change is today’s news, but it isn’t a new phenomenon. Centuries-long cycles of heating and cooling are well documented for Europe and the North Atlantic. These variations in climate, including the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), AD 900 to 1300, and the early centuries of the Little Ice Age...
Wildlife Responses to Climate Change
North American Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Wildlife Responses to Climate Change is an important addition to the body of knowledge critical to scientists, resource managers, and policymakers in understanding and shaping solutions to problems caused by climate change. It provides a useful resource for students and scientists studying the effects...
by Archana Bhattacharyya
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2011
This book is a multi-author treatise on the most outstanding research problems in the field of the aeronomy of the Earth’s atmosphere and ionosphere, encompassing the science covered by Division II of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA). It contains several review articles...
by Joshua Chadney
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
This PhD thesis details the development of a new 1D ionospheric model to describe the upper atmospheres of extrasolar giant plants. The upper atmospheres of Hot Jupiters are subject to extreme radiation conditions that can result in rapid atmospheric escape. The composition and structure of these...
Transport and Chemical Transformation in the Troposphere
Proceedings of EUROTRAC Symposium 2000 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany 27–31 March 2000 Eurotrac-2 International Scientific Secretariat GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health Munich, Germany
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The sixth EUROTRAC Symposium was held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, th st Gennany from 27 - 31 March 2000. Some 375 scientists from 28 different countries (from the USA to Uzbekistan) gathered together and contributed to a lively week. Symposium 2000 was the second Symposium of the second phase, EUROTRAC-...
by Monique Y. Leclerc, Thomas Foken
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
How to interpret meteorological measurements made at a given level over a surface with regard to characteristic properties such as roughness, albedo, heat, moisture, carbon dioxide, and other gases is an old question which goes back to the very beginnings of modern micrometeorology. It is made even...