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Abrupt Climate Change
Wiley 2013; US$ 120.00Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series. Abrupt Climate Change: Mechanisms, Patterns, and Impacts brings together a diverse group of paleoproxy records such as ice cores, marine sediments, terrestrial (lakes and speleothems) archives, and coupled ocean-atmosphere climate models to document recent advances... more...
The Weather Factor
Hodder & Stoughton 2013; US$ 22.64Weather has killed more people than all the bombs in history. Following his acclaimed THE HINGE FACTOR, Erik Durschmied now casts his eye over history's dramatic changes through climate. more...
The Weather Factor
Hodder & Stoughton 2013; Not AvailableWeather has killed more people than all the bombs in history. Following his acclaimed THE HINGE FACTOR, Erik Durschmied now casts his eye over history's dramatic changes through climate. more...
Weather, Climate and Human Affairs (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95First published in 1988, this is a reissue of a groundbreaking collection of essays written by Hubert Lamb, one of the world?s foremost experts on weather and climate and a uniquely authoritative voice in the history of climatology. Hubert Lamb is able to provide a mature assessment of the effect of weather on people, and vice versa. His is a uniquely... more...
Turned Out Nice Again
Profile 2013; US$ 12.24In his trademark style, Richard Mabey weaves together science, art and memoirs (including his own) to show the weather's impact on our culture and national psyche. He rambles through the myths of Golden Summers and our persistent state of denial about the winter; the Impressionists' love affair with London smog, seasonal affective disorder... more...
Applied Climatology
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 75.95'Big freeze' conditions, storms, severe flooding, droughts, and heatwaves - recent extremes in weather, with their resultant physical, economic and human losses, highlight the vulnerability of society to changes in the atmosphere. Atmospheric pollution, urbanization, natural atmospheric disasters are causing dramatic changes in climatic environments.... more...
Synoptic and Dynamic Climatology
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 129.00Synoptic and Dynamic Climatology provides the first comprehensive account of the dynamical behaviour and mechanisms of the global climate system and its components, together with a modern survey of synoptic-scale weather systems in the tropics and extratropics, and of the methods and applications of synoptic climate classification. It is unrivalled... more...
Storm Kings
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 26.95With 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations From the acclaimed author of Wicked River comes Storm Kings, a riveting tale of supercell tornadoes and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists whose discoveries created the science of modern meteorology. While tornadoes have occasionally been spotted elsewhere, only the central plains... more...
The Year Without Summer
St. Martin's Press 2013; US$ 27.99Like Winchester's Krakatoa, The Year Without Summer reveals a year of dramatic global change long forgotten by history In the tradition of Krakatoa , The World Without Us , and Guns, Germs and Steel comes a sweeping history of the year that became known as 18-hundred-and-froze-to-death. 1816 was a remarkable year?mostly for the fact... more...
Invisible in the Storm
Princeton University Press 2013; US$ 35.00Invisible in the Storm is the first book to recount the history, personalities, and ideas behind one of the greatest scientific successes of modern times--the use of mathematics in weather prediction. Although humans have tried to forecast weather for millennia, mathematical principles were used in meteorology only after the turn of the twentieth... more...









