Meteorology & Climatology

Historical gardens listed as cultural monuments are valuable evidence of our civilization. How can they be preserved under changing climatic condi...

At 14,110 feet, the weather station atop Pikes Peak, Colorado, was the highest in the world in 1873. Young men trained by the Signal Corps took tur...

Lakes change constantly in response to their surrounding landscape, and their airshed. Mirror Lake, located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire...

As director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center in the late 1960s and early '70s, William H. Hag...

In 1947, Robert H. Simpson lifted off in a specially equipped plane, flying directly into the path of a storm that would send most people running f...

Every day meteorologists sift through a deluge of information to make predictions that help us navigate our daily lives. Instead of being overwhelm...

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 189. Climate Dynamics: Why Does Climate Vary? pres...

Murphy explores whether technological development inadvertently constructed new vulnerabilities, thereby manufacturing a natural disaster. As the e...

This book sets forth the physical, mathematical, and numerical foundations of computer models used to understand and predict the global ocean clima...

"In a virtual age when tempests are monitored by global positioning and The Weather Channel, Stormchasers reminds us that our first understanding o...

How do meteorologists design forecasts for the next day's, the next week's, or the next month's weather? Are some forecasts more likely to be accur...

Key scientific research by authors including Kerry Emanuel, Robert Burpee, Edwin Kessler, and Louis Uccellini illustrates the evolution of the fiel...

The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803–06) systematically recorded weather and climate data during their 4,162-mile journey. This volume collects all...

Drawing a completely new road map toward a sustainable future, Jack M. Hollander contends that our most critical environmental problem is global po...

Victorian Britain, with its maritime economy and strong links between government and scientific enterprises, founded an office to collect meteorolo...

Nearly seven billion people are collectively such a potent force that their influence on the global environment has begun to rival that of Mother N...

One of the greatest challenges facing atmospheric science instructors is helping students link theoretical and mathematical concepts to the real at...

The past decade has been characterized by remarkable advances in meteorological observation, computing techniques, and data-visualization technolog...