Meteorology & Climatology

Lewis Fry Richardson dreamt that scientific weather prediction would one day become a practical reality. Before his ideas could bear fruit several advances were needed: better understanding of the dynamics of the atmosphere; stable computational...

Desert Frontier is a study of the ecological and economic impact of a long-term trend toward increasing aridity along the southern edge of the western Sahara. Beginning in the early seventeenth century, this climatological trend forced the desert...

Bangladesh faces many challenges. So long it has been mainly the traditional ones of socio economic development and eradication of poverty. Environment as a major factor in this process has only recently entered the scene. But even before environmental...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013275555Author Sven TeskeFormat HardbackPage Count 534Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780962185540Author James DeMeoFormat HardbackPage Count 186Imprint Natural Energy WorksPublisher Natural Energy WorksWeight(grams) 726g

The climate of the Earth has undergone many changes and for those times when geologic data are widespread and abundant the Mesozoic appears to have been one of the warmest intervals. This was a time during which the single continent Pangea disintegrated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986486203Author Paul MacRaeFormat PaperbackPage Count 382Imprint Spring Bay PressPublisher Spring Bay PressWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

This book provides an overview of the early years of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, and reviews the work of the institute over the past 30 years, describing along the way the European approach to medium-range weather forecasting...

This book presents a collection of 17 papers by authors from diverse backgrounds dealing with multi-disciplinary research on the Patagonian ice fields. The main emphasis is glaciology, climatology and paleoclimatology, with contributions in glacier...

Research input constitutes a key component in the development of international environmental regime formation. Science-policy interaction is, however, complex and difficult, particularly because it is an encounter between two distinct systems of...

Only a few laboratories in the world have taken the bold step to attempt the integration of sub-models of the climate system, the global biogeochemical cycles and the human/societal components. This volume reports on such a major undertaking and provides...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013267635Author Franciscus ColijnFormat HardbackPage Count 556Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994643322Author Dr Peter T ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Felix PublishingPublisher Felix PublishingWeight(grams) 193g

Many satellites have recently been launched or are in preparation, which operate in the microwave to IR ranges, the main objective being to observe the earth's atmosphere or interstellar clouds. Analysis of the data they supply requires extensive...

Present policy issues concern the reduction of ozone levels by controlling its precursors, NOx and volatile organic compounds (VOC). VOC are emitted from anthropogenic and biogenic sources. Whereas our understanding of VOC emissions from anthropogenic...

Following a decision by the Arctic Ocean Sciences Board (AOSB) in July 1996 the then chainnan, Geoffrey Holland, wrote a letter of invitation to a meeting to plan a "Symposium on the Freshwater Balance of the Arctic". The meeting was held in Ottawa on...

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Studies of convection in geophysical flows constitute an advanced and rapidly developing area of research that is relevant to problems of the natural environment. Since the late 1980s, significant progress has been achieved in the field as a result of...

1.1. MISSION BACKGROUND The scientific objective of this magnetospheric physics mission was a detailed in vestigation of the Aurora Borealis, or 'Northern Lights'. The fields experiments (electric and magnetic) were constructed by the University of...

This is an introductory textbook on global spectral modeling designed for senior-level undergraduates and possibly for first-year graduate students. This text starts with an introduction to elementary finite-difference methods and moves on towards the...

This book, authored by a well-known researcher and expositor in meteorology, focuses on the direct link between molecular dynamics and atmospheric variation. Uniting molecular dynamics, turbulence theory, fluid mechanics and non equilibrium statistical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888652836Author Roland StullFormat PaperbackPage Count 942Imprint Sundog Publishing, LLCPublisher Sundog Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 2136gDimensions(mm)...

After World War II, Professor S.K. Mitra wrote a comprehensive book called The Upper Atmosphere, which dealt with information available from ground-based and balloon-borne experiments. As a result, topics such as day airglow were investigated and further...

THE "LITTLE ICE AGE": LOCAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES P. D. JONES and K. R. BRIFFA Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK. This volume of Climatic Change is devoted to the study of the climate of the last 1000...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013268618Author Nadja KabischFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

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 ineconomic incentives to the user. Because theoperating environment has...

accommodate terrestrial flooding. In consequence, although the natural vegetation may be severely damaged, tropical cyclones may have less geomorphic impact. Low coral islands, such as those that occur on atolls, have the most vulnerable physical...

Many satellites have recently been launched or are in preparation, which operate in the microwave to IR ranges, the main objective being to observe the earth's atmosphere or interstellar clouds. Analysis of the data they supply requires extensive...

The author attempts to describe various types of weather disturbances ranging from small white clouds of fair weather to violent hurricanes.About the Authorttan /f Louis /i J.Book InformationISBN 9780313225826Author Jeanette A. BattanFormat HardbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013267598Author Francesco MuscoFormat HardbackPage Count 444Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478729228Author Douglas J CottonFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013290879Author Alberto TroccoliFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982773406Author John O'SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint Stairway PressPublisher Stairway PressWeight(grams) 425g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780958240161Author Ian WishartFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Howling at the Moon Publishing LtdPublisher Howling at the Moon Publishing...

The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water both in area and volume. Its drainage area is approximately 3. 5 million square kilometers, extending 2500 km in length, 35 DegreesN to 600N, and on average 1000 km wide, 400E 0 to 60E (Fig. 1)...

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The Atmosphere and Ocean The Atmosphere and Ocean is a fully revised and updated student friendly physical introduction to the atmosphere and ocean. Now in its Third Edition, the book continues to provide students with an accessible description of the...

Extreme climatic events present society with significant challenges in a rapidly warming world. Ordinary citizens, the insurance industry and governments are concerned about the apparent increase in the frequency of weather and climate events causing...

Changes in climate and climate variability have an effect on people's behaviour around the world, and public institutions have an important part to play in influencing our ability to respond to and plan for climate risk. We may be able to reduce climate...