Climate: Present, Past and Future (Routledge Revivals)
Volume 1: Fundamentals and Climate Now
1st Edition
Published on 15. September 2011
Book
Hardback
618 pages
978-0-415-67950-3 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1972, this first volume of Professor Lamb's study of our changing climate deals with the fundamentals of climate and climatology, as well as providing global data on the contemporary climates of the twentieth century.
Reviews / Votes
@quote: 'Professor Lamb has indeed served us well, in a complex field of study of the utmost significance to mankind' - The Times Higher Education Supplement@ quote: 'Destined to become one of the classics of climatology' - Geographical Magazine
@quote: 'Professor Lamb is to be congratulated on producing such an informative book, one which is almost certainly destined to become a classic synthesis of our present understanding of physical and dynamical climatology.' - Times Literary Supplement
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Weight
1370 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-67950-3 (9780415679503)
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Climate: Present, Past and Future (Routledge Revivals)
Volume 1: Fundamentals and Climate Now
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Content
Part I: Fundamentals 1. Concepts and Definitions: the Weather, the Atmosphere and the Sun 2. Radiation and the Earth's Heat Supply 3. The Atmosphere in Motion 4. Seasonal Changes 5. The Stratosphere 6. Cyclic and Quasi-Periodic Phenomena 7. Anomalous Patterns of Atmospheric Circulation, Weather and Climate 8. The Oceans 9. The Water Cycle 10. Some Observed Causes of Climactic Variation Part II: Climate Now 11. Observational Reference Data and Classification of Climates