Climate

Present, Past and Future: Volume 1: Fundamentals and Climate Now
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-415-68222-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 652 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1240 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals: A History of Climate Changes

First published in 1972, this first volume of Professor Lamb’s study of our changing climate deals with the fundamentals of climate and climatology, as well as providing global data on the contemporary climates of the twentieth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lamb, Hubert H.

Lamb, Hubert

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Soziale & wirtschaftliche Auswirkungen von Umweltfaktoren
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Fundamentals 1. Concepts and Definitions: the Weather, the Atmosphere and the Sun 2. Radiation and the Earth’s Heat Supply 3. The Atmosphere in Motion 4. Seasonal Changes 5. The Stratosphere 6. Cyclic and Quasi-Periodic Phenomena 7. Anomalous Patterns of Atmospheric Circulation, Weather and Climate 8. The Oceans 9. The Water Cycle 10. Some Observed Causes of Climactic Variation Part 2: Climate Now 11. Observational Reference Data and Classification of Climates

Über Autor(innen)

H. H. Lamb