Meteorology & Climatology

This is the untold story of the remarkable scientist who established the carbon dioxide theory of climate change. Guy Stewart Callendar discovered ...

The Earth's climate system depends entirely on the Sun for its energy. Solar radiation warms the atmosphere and is fundamental to atmospheric compo...

Going beyond the headlines, this work by leading NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt and master photographer Joshua Wolfe illustrates as never bef...

An expert examination of the way climate change is transforming the Arctic environmentally, economically, and geopolitically, and how the challenge...

Is the climate really becoming more extreme as a result of climate change? We often hear on the news that the day was the hottest, coldest, wettest...

After several decades of significant but incomplete successes, environmental protection in the United States is stuck. Administrations under presid...

The field of paleoclimatology relies on physical, chemical, and biological proxies of past climate changes that have been preserved in natural arch...

Though we commonly make them the butt of our jokes, weather forecasters are in fact exceptionally good at managing uncertainty. They consistently d...

Though we commonly make them the butt of our jokes, weather forecasters are in fact exceptionally good at managing uncertainty. They consistently d...

In "Authors of the Storm", Gary Alan Fine offers an inside look at how meteorologists and forecasters predict the weather. Through field observatio...

Enlightenment inquiries into weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions. "British Weath...

Enlightenment inquiries into weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions. "British Weath...

Every decade since 1950 has seen more floods and more wildfires on every continent. Deserts are expanding, coral reefs are dying, fisheries are dec...

In "Authors of the Storm", Gary Alan Fine offers an inside look at how meteorologists and forecasters predict the weather. Through field observatio...

Students can use this unique guide to discover not only what causes particular weather events such as avalanches and droughts but also how the weat...

This first interdisciplinary review on how climate affects human behavior provides an introductory framework for research in the field, surveys cli...

Das Wetter hat einen großen Einfluss darauf wie wir unseren Tag planen, zudem ist es ein beliebtes Gesprächsthema. Dafür wissen wir oft wenig über ...

The author attempts to describe various types of weather disturbances ranging from small white clouds of fair weather to violent hurricanes.

A revolutionary vision of how we can create a sustainable planet This book focuses on two critical global issues—rapid population growth and a huma...