Desert Meteorology

Thomas T. Warner

595 pages, parution le 26/01/2004

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Résumé

Aridity prevails over more than one-third of the land area of Earth, and over a significant fraction of the oceans as well. Yet to date there has been no comprehensive reference volume or textbook that deals with the weather processes that define the character of desert areas.

Desert Meteorology fills this gap by treating all aspects of desert weather, such as large-scale and local-scale causes of aridity, precipitation characteristics in deserts, dust storms and floods, climate change in deserts, precipitation processes, desertification, the land-surface physics of deserts, numerical modeling of desert atmospheres, and the effect of desert weather on humans. The book includes review questions and problems for the student.

This comprehensive volume will satisfy all who need to know more about the weather and climate of arid lands. It will appeal especially to advanced students and researchers in environmental science, meteorology, physical geography, hydrology, and engineering.

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Introduction
The atmospheric dynamics of deserts
The climates of the world deserts
Atmospheric and surface energy budgets of deserts
Surface physics of the unvegetated sandy desert landscape
Vegetation effects on desert surface physics
Substrate effects on desert surface physics
Desert-surface physical properties
Numerical modeling of desert atmospheres
Desert boundary layers
Desert microclimates
Dynamic interactions among desert microclimates
Desert rainfall
Anthropogenic effects on the desert atmosphere
Changes in desert climate
Severe weather in the desert
Effects of deserts on the global environment and other regional
Desertification
Bioclimatology of deserts
Optical properties of desert atmospheres
Appendices
Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	Thomas T. Warner
Parution	26/01/2004
Nb. de pages	595
Format	17,5 x 25
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1400g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521817981
ISBN13	978-0-521-81798-1