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  • Climate Change and Regional/Local Responses
    Climate Change and Regional/Local Responses NEW
    Editor Yuanzhi Zhang and Pallav Ray
    ISBN 978-953-51-1132-0
    247 pages, May, 2013
    Downloads: 69
  • Climate Change - Realities, Impacts Over Ice Cap, Sea Level and Risks
    Climate Change - Realities, Impacts Over Ice Cap, Sea Level and Risks
    Editor Bharat Raj Singh
    ISBN 978-953-51-0934-1
    508 pages, January, 2013
    Downloads: 577
    The Earth is the only planet in our solar system that supports life. The complex process of evolution occurred on Earth only because of some unique environmental conditions that were present: water, an oxygen-rich atmosphere, and a suitable surface t ...
  • Advances in Hurricane Research - Modelling, Meteorology, Preparedness and Impacts
    Advances in Hurricane Research - Modelling, Meteorology, Preparedness and Impacts
    Editor Kieran Hickey
    ISBN 978-953-51-0867-2
    198 pages, December, 2012
    Downloads: 396
    This book provides a wealth of new information, ideas and analysis on some of the key unknowns in hurricane research. Topics covered include the numerical prediction systems for tropical cyclone development, the use of remote sensing methods for trop ...
  • Open Questions in Cosmology
    Open Questions in Cosmology
    Editor Gonzalo J. Olmo
    ISBN 978-953-51-0880-1
    334 pages, November, 2012
    Downloads: 513
    In the last years we have witnessed how the field of Cosmology has experienced a metamorphosis. From being essentially the search for three numbers (the expansion rate, the deceleration parameter, and the cosmological constant), it has become a preci ...
  • Atmospheric Aerosols - Regional Characteristics - Chemistry and Physics
    Atmospheric Aerosols - Regional Characteristics - Chemistry and Physics
    Editor Hayder Abdul-Razzak
    ISBN 978-953-51-0728-6
    480 pages, September, 2012
    Downloads: 692
    The book is divided into two sections. The first section presents characterization of atmospheric aerosols and their impact on regional climate from East Asia to the Pacific. Ground-based, air-born, and satellite data were collected and analyzed. Det ...
  • Atmospheric Model Applications
    Atmospheric Model Applications
    Editor Ismail Yucel
    ISBN 978-953-51-0488-9
    296 pages, April, 2012
    Downloads: 1019
    This book covers comprehensive text and reference work on atmospheric models for methods of numerical modeling and important related areas of data assimilation and predictability. It incorporates various aspects of environmental computer modeling inc ...
  • Oceanography
    Oceanography
    Editor Marco Marcelli
    ISBN 978-953-51-0301-1
    348 pages, March, 2012
    Downloads: 1386
    How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean (Arthur C. Clarke). Life has been originated in the oceans, human health and activities depend from the oceans and the world life is modulated by marine and oceanic processes. ...
  • Modern Climatology
    Modern Climatology
    Editor Shih-Yu (Simon) Wang and Robert R. Gillies
    ISBN 978-953-51-0095-9
    398 pages, March, 2012
    Downloads: 1273
    Climatology, the study of climate, is no longer regarded as a single discipline that treats climate as something that fluctuates only within the unchanging boundaries described by historical statistics. The field has recognized that climate is someth ...