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Global Circulation of the Atmosphere
by Tapio Schneider  Publisher Comments Despite major advances in the observation and numerical simulation of the atmosphere, basic features of the Earth's climate remain poorly understood. Integrating the available data and computational resources to improve our understanding of the global...
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Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities (06 Edition)
by Mike Tidwell Publisher Comments A prophetic journalist predicts that because of global warming, ocean levels will rise by three feet in the coming decades, and hurricanes will grow more powerful, endangering coastal populations not only in North America but throughout the world....
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Riddle of the Ice: A Scientific Adventure Into the Arctic
by Myron Arms Publisher Comments By any account, the impenetrable barrier of sea ice that blocked the Brendan's Isle halfway up the Labrador Coast should not have been there in late July, in what was one of the hottest summers in memory a few hundred miles to the south. Frustrated and...
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Scanning the Skies: A History of Tornado Forecasting
by Marlene Bradford Publisher Comments Tornadoes, nature's most violent and unpredictable storms, descend from the clouds nearly one thousand times yearly and have claimed eighteen thousand American lives since 1880. However, the U.S. Weather Bureau -- fearing public panic and believing...
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El Nino: Unlocking the Secrets of the Master Weather-Maker
by J Madeleine Nash Synopsis El Nino is both a scientific detective story and a fascinating exploration of how weather really works. It brings droughts, mud slides, killer storms, and even epidemics and hordes of frogs and rats. Now for the first time, here is the complete--and...
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Floods, famines, and emperors :El Niäno and the fate of civilizations
by Brian M Fagan Publisher Comments In 1997 and early 1998, one of the most powerful El Niños ever recorded disrupted weather patterns all over the world. Europe suffered through a record freeze as the American West was hit with massive floods and snowstorms; in the western Pacific...
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Nature on the rampage
by H J De Blij Publisher Comments Spectacular photographs, fascinating facts, and dramatic real-life accounts, bring to life history's most colossal natural events....
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The Cambridge Guide to the Weather
by Ross Reynolds Publisher Comments The Cambridge Guide to the Weather is a practical guide to observing, measuring and understanding the weather. Aimed at all those who enjoy the outdoors, such as sailors, walkers, climbers and birdwatchers, this book is also useful as an aid to planning...
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Appropriating the weather :Vilhelm Bjerknes and the construction of a modern meteorology
by Robert Mar Friedman Book News Annotation Analyzes the revolution in the theory and practice of meteorology during the first quarter of the twentieth century, initiated by Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862-1951) and his collaborators. Gives special emphasis to the way in which Bjerknes adapted his...
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Life, Temperature, and the Earth: The Self-Organizing Biosphere (Methods and Cases in Conservation Science)
by David Schwartzman Publisher Comments "Life, Temperature, and the Earth" analyzes and modifies important aspects of the Gaia hypothesis in light of geochemical, geophysical, mathematical, and paleontological data that were either ignored or unavailable when the hypothesis was developed...
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Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World
by Mike Davis Synopsis Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe, Davis shows how the ruling elites helped produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. 15 photos. 8 maps....
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Climate Change 1995-- The Science of Climate Change: Contribution of Working Group I to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
by John Theod Houghton Publisher Comments Climate Change 1995--The Science of Climate Change is the most comprehensive assessment available of current scientific understanding of human influences on past, present and future climate. Prepared under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Panel on...
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Atmosphere, Climate, and Change
by T E Graedel Book News Annotation The authors describe in clear, accessible language how scientists use clues embedded in rocks, ice cores, ocean sediment, and tree rings to construct the story of long-term climate change. Also explored are the causes of long-term climate change, with...
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Understanding Catastrophe (Darwin College Lectures)
by Janine Bourriau Synopsis This book examines the immense and varied impact that catastrophic change can have on the development of life on earth. Opening with a remarkable account of supernovae and the nature of stellar catastrophe, it then examines the way evolution itself can...
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Weather
by Storm Dunlop Publisher Comments An introduction to observing, predicting and understanding the weather. Includes colour photographs to illustrate all weather conditions, from basic clouds to tornados....
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Weather and Climate: The Advancement of Science Series
by R C Sutacliffe Publisher Comments Meteorology is popularly associated with day-to-day forecasting of weather, but as Professor Sutcliffe shows, this is only one among many interests of the meteorologist....
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Skywatch East: A Weather Guide
by Richard A. Keen Book News Annotation Describes the typical and the extreme weather east of the Mississippi, and suggests how to set up home weather stations. Very colorfully illustrated. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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Tying Down the Wind: Adventures in the Worst Weather on Earth
by Eric Pinder Synopsis In a fascinating journey through the world's most volatile weather systems, Pinder reveals that you don't need to climb Mount Everest or voyage to the icy desert of Antarctica to witness both the beauty and the destructiveness of weather. The same forces...
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Ocean of Air
by Gabrielle Walker Publisher Comments We don't just live in the air; we live because of it. It's the most miraculous substance on earth, responsible for our food, our weather, our water, and our ability to hear. In this exuberant book, gifted science writer Gabrielle Walker peels back the...
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The Science Times Book of Natural Disasters
by Nicholas Wade Publisher Comments The Earth and all its inhabitants are vulnerable to the whims of nature, sometimes lethal whims of catastrophic proportions. Natural disasters claim the lives of about 1 million people every decade. Here in the latest book in the Science Times series...
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