Explains the natural forces behind the weather and investigates the conditions that may be bringing about changes in the climate.
Frost Frost develops when it's cold enough for water vapor near the ground to condense onto objects as ice instead of dew . If the ground itself is chilled to below freezing , ground frost forms . When the air above the ground is below ...
This book provides a comprehensive, balanced and reader-friendly account of the developments in climate science over the past 250 years.
The Rainbow Bridge: Rainbows in Art, Myth, and Science. Penn State University Press, University Park, PA, 2001. Lynch, David K., and William Livingston. Color and Light in Nature (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press, New York, 2001.
As climate has warmed over recent years, a new pattern of more frequent and more intense weather events has unfolded across the globe.
This book describes how Earth's climate is changing, how it has been changing in the recent geological past and how it may change in the future. It covers the physical...
The Usborne Internet-linked Introduction to Weather & Climate Change
Mann, M. E. and Jones, P. D. (2003) Global surface temperatures over the past two millennia. Geophys. Res. Lett. 30(15), 1820. Mann, M. E., Park, J. and Bradley, R. S. (1995) Global interdecadal and century-scale climate oscillations ...
Highly acclaimed textbook on the science, economics, and policy of modern climate change, for both science students and non-science majors.
Ciais, P., C. Sabine, G. Bala, L. Bopp, V. Brovkin, J. Canadell, A. Chhabra, R. DeFries, J. Galloway, M. Heimann, ... Denman, K. L., G. Brasseur, A. Chidthaisong, P. Ciais, P. M. Cox, R. E. Dickinson, D. Hauglustaine, C. Heinze, ...
The text places special emphasis on relationships between fundamental variables, such as temperature, pressure, winds, and moisture, and how these variables underlie atmospheric phenomena.