
Handbook of Weather Climate, and Water
Atmospheric Chemistry, Hydrology, and Societal Impacts
Thomas D. Potter, Bradley R. Colman
Résumé
A comprehensive survey of fundamental principles and the latest research on atmospheric, climatic, and hydrologic sciences
The Handbook of Weather, Climate, and Water: Atmospheric Chemistry, Hydrology, and Societal Impacts is the first of two stand-alone volumes that will be landmarks in the meteorological literature for many years to come. Each volume encompasses both fundamental topics and critical issues that have recently surfaced in studies of the hydrosphere and atmosphere. Renowned experts have contributed to every part of this handbook. Each overview chapter is followed by topic-specific chapters written by specialists who present comprehensive discussions at a greater level of detail and complexity.
The Handbook of Weather, Climate, and Water: Atmospheric Chemistry, Hydrology, and Societal Impacts covers topics that are essential for grasping the scientific bases of major issues such as global climate warming, the ozone hole, acid rain, floods, droughts, and other natural disasters. Cross-references between chapters allow readers to easily pursue a specific interest beyond a particular subtopic or individual chapter.
Other topics include:- Aerosols and smog
- Cloud chemistry
- Greenhouse gases
- Remote sensing techniques in hydrology
- Hydrologic forecasting and simulation
- Tropical deforestation effects on the climate system
- Societal impacts of the El Niño phenomenon
- The Handbook of Weather, Climate, and Water: Atmospheric Chemistry, Hydrology, and Societal Impacts will be an essential addition to the libraries of professionals and academics in the environmental sciences, and a valuable source book for university and technical libraries throughout the world.
Contents
Section I: Atmospheric Chemistry.- Overview: atmospheric chemistry
- Oxidizing power of atmosphere
- Tropospheric ozone
- Nitrogen oxides and other reactive nitrogen species
- Carbon monoxide in the atmosphere
- Atmospheric methane
- Biogenic nonmethane hydrocarbons
- Atmospheric sulfur
- Convective transport
- Boundary layer processes and flux measurements
- Sources and composition of aerosol particles
- Aerosols: formation and microphysics in the troposphere
- Photochemical smog: ozone and its precursors
- Biomass burning
- Acid rain and deposition
- Fundamentals of visibility
- Cloud chemistry
- Dry deposition
- Fate of atmospheric trace gases: wet deposition
- Large-scale circulation of the stratosphere
- Stratospheric ozone observations
- Aerosol processes in the stratosphere
- Hydrology overview
- Rainfall
- Snow hydrology and water resources (western united states)
- Evaluating the spatial distribution of evaporation
- Infiltration and soil moisture processes
- Groundwater flow processes
- Surface runoff generation
- Flow routing
- Hydrologic modeling for runoff forecasting
- Stochastic characteristics and modeling of hydroclimatic processes
- Stochastic simulation of precipitation and streamflow processes
- Stochastic forecasting of precipitation and streamflow processes
- Remote sensing and geographical information systems applications in hydrology
- Floods
- Climate and society
- Household food security and coping with climatic variability in developing countries
- Drought in the u.s. great plains
- Floods on the mississippi river system of the united states
- Drought in Northwest Africa
- Hurricane as an extreme meteorological event
- El niño in australia
- Biological and societal impacts of climate variability: an example from peruvian fisheries
- Drought in south africa
- Transboundary fisheries: pacific salmon
- Transboundary river flow changes
- Lessons from the rising caspian
- Acid rain and society
- Impacts of climate change
- Impacts of stratospheric ozone depletion
- Tropical deforestation and climate
- Desertification
- Imaginable surprises
L'auteur - Thomas D. Potter
THOMAS D. POTTER, PhD, is Professor of Meteorology at
the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, and Director of
NOAA Cooperative Institute for Regional Prediction.
L'auteur - Bradley R. Colman
BRADLEY R. COLMAN, ScD, is Science Operations Officer
for the National Weather Service in Seattle, Washington,
and is an Affiliate Associate Professor at the University
of Washington.
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PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Wiley |
Auteur(s) | Thomas D. Potter, Bradley R. Colman |
Parution | 21/02/2003 |
Nb. de pages | 996 |
Format | 16 x 24 |
Couverture | Relié |
Poids | 1519g |
Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
EAN13 | 9780471214892 |
ISBN13 | 978-0-471-21489-2 |
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