Climate : Past, Present and Future

ISBN-13: 9780416115307 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 613 str.

H. H. Lamb

Opis

A comprehensive study of climate, its fundamentals, its history, the recent effects of urban growth and the problems of forecasting.

Spis treści

Volume I: Part I: 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 II: Climate Now 11. Observational Reference Data and Classification of Climates

O autorze

Professor H.H. Lamb