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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “peter lemke”
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  • Arctic Climate Change

    The ACSYS Decade and Beyond

    Edited by Peter Lemke, Hans-Werner Jacobi ...
    Series Book 43 - Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library
    The Arctic is now experiencing some of the most rapid and severe climate change on earth. Over the next 100 years, climate change is expected to accelerate, contributing to major physical, ecological, social, and economic changes, many of which have already begun. Changes in arctic climate will also affect the rest of the world through increased global warming and rising sea levels.The volume ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Freshwater Budget of the Arctic Ocean

    Edited by Terry D. Prowse, Peter Lemke, E. Peter Jones, Edward Lyn Lewis, Peter Wadhams ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    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 November 12-13 1996 and was attended by representatives of various organisations, including the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), as well as ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Remote Sensing Advances for Earth System Science

    The ESA Changing Earth Science Network: Projects 2011-2013

    Edited by Diego Fernández-Prieto, Roberto Sabia ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents cutting-edge remote sensing research, outlining the advanced use of European Space Agency (ESA) satellite data in the context of climate change. The ESA, through its Support to Science Element (STSE) Programme, funds a network of young post-doc scientists pursuing 2-year cutting-edge research projects in the field of remote sensing. This “Changing Earth Science Network” focuses ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Radiative Transfer in the Atmosphere and Ocean

    by Knut Stamnes, Gary E. Thomas, Jakob J. Stamnes ...
    This new and completely updated edition gives a detailed description of radiative transfer processes at a level accessible to advanced students. The volume gives the reader a basic understanding of global warming and enhanced levels of harmful ultraviolet radiation caused by ozone depletion. It teaches the basic physics of absorption, scattering and emission processes in turbid media, such as the ... Read more

    $106.59 USD

  • Tambora

    The Eruption That Changed the World

    by Gillen D’Arcy Wood ...
    A global history of the climate catastrophe caused by the Tambora eruptionWhen Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years. The volcano’s massive sulfate dust cloud enveloped the Earth, cooling temperatures and disrupting major weather systems for more than three years. Communities worldwide ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Climate and the Oceans

    by Geoffrey K. Vallis ...
    Series series Princeton Primers in Climate
    The oceans exert a vital moderating influence on the Earth's climate system. They provide inertia to the global climate, essentially acting as the pacemaker of climate variability and change, and they provide heat to high latitudes, keeping them habitable. Climate and the Oceans offers a short, self-contained introduction to the subject. This illustrated primer begins by briefly describing the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Earth System Science

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Tim Lenton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    When humanity first glimpsed planet Earth from space, the unity of the system that supports humankind entered the popular consciousness. The concept of the Earth's atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, soil, and rocks operating as a closely interacting system has rapidly gained ground in science. This new field, involving geographers, geologists, biologists, oceanographers, and atmospheric physicists, is ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences

    by Daniel S. Wilks ...
    Series Book 100 - International Geophysics
    Statistical Methods in the Atmospheric Sciences, Second Edition, explains the latest statistical methods used to describe, analyze, test, and forecast atmospheric data. This revised and expanded text is intended to help students understand and communicate what their data sets have to say, or to make sense of the scientific literature in meteorology, climatology, and related disciplines. In this ... Read more

    $81.89 USD

  • Dying and Dead Seas Climatic Versus Anthropic Causes

    Edited by Jacques C.J. Nihoul, Peter O. Zavialov, Philip P. Micklin ...
    Series Book 36 - NATO Science Series: IV
    There are incentive indications that the growth of human population, the increasing use and abuse of natural resources combined with climate changes (probably due to anthropic pollution, to some extent) exert a considerable stress on closed (or semi-enclosed) seas and lakes. In many regions of the world, marine and lacustrine hydrosystems are (or have been) the object of severe or fatal ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • The Cryosphere

    by Shawn J. Marshall ...
    Series series Princeton Primers in Climate
    The cryosphere encompasses the Earth's snow and ice masses. It is a critical part of our planet's climate system, one that is especially at risk from climate change and global warming. The Cryosphere provides an essential introduction to the subject, written by one of the world's leading experts in Earth-system science.In this primer, glaciologist Shawn Marshall introduces readers to the ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Ocean Dynamics and the Carbon Cycle

    Principles and Mechanisms

    by Michael J. Follows, Richard G. Williams ...
    This textbook for advanced undergraduate and graduate students presents a multidisciplinary approach to understanding ocean circulation and how it drives and controls marine biogeochemistry and biological productivity at a global scale. Background chapters on ocean physics, chemistry and biology provide students with the tools to examine the range of large-scale physical and dynamic phenomena that ... Read more

    $81.19 USD

  • Historical Perspectives on Climate Change

    by James Rodger Fleming ...
    This intriguing volume provides a thorough examination of the historical roots of global climate change as a field of inquiry, from the Enlightenment to the late twentieth century. Based on primary and archival sources, the book is filled with interesting perspectives on what people have understood, experienced, and feared about the climate and its changes in the past. Chapters explore climate and ... Read more

    $41.39 USD