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...

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...