Meteorology & Climatology

In the mid-nineteenth century, the new science of weather forecasting was fraught with controversy on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United Sta...

A gripping history of the polar continent, from the great discoveries of the nineteenth century to modern scientific breakthroughsAntarctica, the i...

In 1972, James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis began collaborating on the Gaia hypothesis. They suggested that over geological time, life on Earth has h...

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, and one of The Observers Thirty books to help us understand the w...

From his home on the Texas Panhandle, John R. Erickson, rancher and author of the bestselling Hank the Cowdog series, saw firsthand the raw power o...

Out of all the explanations for why a sailor has lost out on a race, an unforeseen change in the wind and weather is by far one of the most frequen...

Air sustains the living. Every creature breathes to live, exchanging and changing the atmosphere. Water and dust spin and rise, make clouds and fal...

In 2011, despite continued developments in forecasting, tracking, and warning technology, the United States was hit by the deadliest tornado season...

When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of y...

Living in a Dangerous Climate provides a journey through human and Earth history, showing how a changing climate has affected human evolution and s...

This book is the first to explore the dramatic amplification of global warming underway in cities and the range of actions that individuals and gov...

Atmospheric Frontal Dynamics is the first book to present a self-contained and comprehensive coverage of the ubiquitous surface and upper-level fro...

Remote Sensing plays a key role in monitoring the various manifestations of global climate change.  It is used routinely in the assessment and mapp...