Meteorology & Climatology

Booker focuses his attention on the mother of all environmental scares: global warming. This original book considers one of the most extraordinary scientific and political stories of our time: how in the 1980s a handful of scientists came to believe that...

How do polycentric governance systems respond to new collective action problems? This Element tackles this question by studying the governance of adaptation to sea level rise in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Like climate mitigation, climate...

How do we know that climate change is an emergency? How did the scientific community reach this conclusion all but unanimously, and what tools did they use to do it? This book tells the story of climate models, tracing their history from...

The Paris Agreement embodies a flexible approach to global cooperation, aimed at encouraging ever more ambitious climate action by a variety of players on all levels of governance. Regional organizations play an important role in mobilizing such action...

In recent years climate change has become recognised as the foremost environmental problem of the twenty-first century. Not only will climate change potentially affect the multibillion dollar energy strategies of countries worldwide, but it also could...

This book is the most comprehensive report to date on the wide range of impacts of climate change in the United States. It is written in plain language to better inform members of the public and policymakers. The report finds that global warming is...

Highlights the influence of saltatory evolution and rapid climate change on human evolution, migration and behavioural change. Growing concern over the potential impacts of climate change on our future is clearly evident. In order to better understand...

This book focuses specifically on bin and bulk parameterizations for the prediction of cloud and precipitation at various scales - the cloud scale, mesoscale, synoptic scale, and the global climate scale. It provides a background to the fundamental...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798885052375Author Robert Lee HowardFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Fulton BooksPublisher Fulton BooksWeight(grams) 245g

The necessity of eliminating the possibility of a large-scale nuclear conflict from the future of mankind is the most important problem of our times. There is no doubt that the probable aftereffects of such a conflict would by many times exceed the...

Aerosol particles are ubiquitous in the Earth's atmosphere and are central to many environmental issues such as climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion and air quality. In urban environments, aerosol particles can affect human health through their...

This volume presents recent advances and developments taking place in geotechnical aspects of natural disaster mitigation and management. The chapters of this book are based on the invited lectures delivered by eminent researchers at the Third Indo-Japan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781577066712Author Alan L FensinFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Burlington National IncPublisher Burlington National IncWeight(grams)...

This book shows how California’s weather and climate has drastically changed and what we can expect in the near future. California’s weather and climate are becoming as common a topic in the media as inflation and wars. It comes into our lives during...

This open access book serves as a reference for the key elements and their significance of Klaus Hasselmann's work on climate science and on ocean wave research, all based on a rigorous and deeply physical thinking. It summarizes the original articles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013290862Author Alberto TroccoliFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

This book demonstrates how robust and evolving science can be relevant to public discourse about climate policy. Fighting climate change is the ultimate societal challenge, and the difficulty is not just in the wrenching adjustments required to cut...

The essential guide to the history, current trends, and the future of meteorology This comprehensive review explores the evolution of the field of meteorology, from its infancy in 3000 bc, through the birth of fresh ideas and the naming of the field as...

This book presents a deep and encompassing survey of severe weather in all its forms. An Introduction to Severe Storms and Hazardous Weather is an exciting new textbook that allows students to learn the principles of atmospheric science through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783849692858Author E W WebsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Jazzybee VerlagPublisher Jazzybee VerlagWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945497421Author Muni Rathnam PantulaFormat PaperbackImprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 1359g

In Nordic literature a remarkable discussion of the northern light appears in Kongespeilet (The King's Mirror) a thirteenth-century Norwegian chronicle. It is described in vivid detail as the following translated excerpts demonstrate: These northern...

This open access book serves as a reference for the key elements and their significance of Klaus Hasselmann's work on climate science and on ocean wave research, all based on a rigorous and deeply physical thinking. It summarizes the original articles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439211540Author Allen SimmonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm)...

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of climate change–related investigations carried out by Indian researchers through initiatives in southern high latitude regions. It explains climate variability over the Southern Ocean and...

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The Handbook of Meteorology gives specialists and non-specialists alike a clear understanding of the way our weather functions. It provides scientific answers to questions that arise when looking at the world around us. It starts with the basics of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996942355Author Timothy VasquezFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Weather Graphics TechnologiesPublisher Weather Graphics TechnologiesWeight(grams)...

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Climate: Into the 21st Century features an unrivalled collection of essays by the world's leading meteorological experts. Compiled by an international team formed under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), these fully integrated...

* What has been the real impact of past weather extremes (e.g. cold winters, droughts, floods, heatwaves and hurricanes) on historic events? * Is the frequency and impact of weather extremes changing? * Can we predict how the climate will behave in the...