Category Archives: Weather

Cloud Optics (Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library)

Clouds affect the climate of the Earth, and they are an important factor in the weather. Therefore, their radiative properties must be understood in great detail. This book summarizes current knowledge on cloud optical properties, for example their ability to … Continue reading

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The Earth’s Atmosphere: Its Physics and Dynamics

The book entitled “Atmospheric science and Global Warming” coversa wide area of the atmospheric science, focussing particularly on those physical and dynamical aspects of our environment which tend to create heat sources and sinks in the earth-atmosphere system and which … Continue reading

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Turbulence in the Atmosphere

Based on his 40+ years of research and teaching, John Wyngaard’s textbook is an excellent up-to-date introduction to turbulence in the atmosphere and in engineering flows for advanced students, and a reference work for researchers in the atmospheric sciences. Part … Continue reading

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Cloud-Resolving Modeling of Convective Processes

Clouds and cloud systems and their interactions with larger scales of motion, radiation, and the Earth’s surface are extremely important parts of weather and climate systems. Their treatment in weather forecast and climate models is a significant source of errors … Continue reading

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Carbonaceous Aerosol (Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library)

The concept of carbonaceous aerosol has only recently emerged from atmospheric pollution studies; even standard nomenclature and terminology are still unsettled. This monograph is the first to offer comprehensive coverage of the nature and atmospheric role of carbonaceous aerosol particles. … Continue reading

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Tropical Rainforests and Agroforests under Global Change: Ecological and Socio-economic Valuations (Environmental Science and Engineering / Environmental Science)

Tropical rainforests are disappearing due to agricultural intensification and climate change, causing irreversible losses in biodiversity and associated ecosystem functioning. Ecosystem properties and human well-being are profoundly influenced by environmental change, which is often not considered during land use intensification. … Continue reading

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Biomass Burning and Its Inter-Relationships with the Climate System (Advances in Global Change Research)

This volume contains a selection of scientific papers which were presented at an international workshop held in Wengen, Switzerland, in September 1998. A number of state-of-the-art papers are presented, which discuss scientific, technological and socio-economic issues related to large forest … Continue reading

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Light Scattering Reviews 2 (Springer Praxis Books / Environmental Sciences)

This book is to continue the “Light Scattering Reviews” series devoted to modern knowledge and milestones in both experimental and theoretical techniques related to light scattering and radiative transport problems. It gives a valuable picture of recent developments in the … Continue reading

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The El Niño-Southern Oscillation Phenomenon

Many climatic extremes around the globe, such as severe droughts and floods, can be attributed to the periodic warming of the equatorial Pacific sea surface, termed the El Niño or Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Advances in our understanding of ENSO, in … Continue reading

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The Sun, Solar Analogs and the Climate: Saas-Fee Advanced Course 34, 2004. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy (Saas-Fee Advanced Courses)

This book presents the lecture notes of the 34th Saas-Fee Advanced Course “The Sun, Solar Analogs and the Climate” given by leading scientists in the field. Emphasis is on the observed variability of the Sun and the present understanding of … Continue reading

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