Boundary Layer Climates
2nd Edition
Published on 4. September 2015
Book
Hardback
464 pages
978-1-138-17043-8 (ISBN)
Description
This modern climatology textbook explains those climates formed near the ground in terms of the cycling of energy and mass through systems.
Reviews / Votes
`A fine text for students wishing to understand the physical processes ocurring near the earth's surface while avoiding the more mathematical approach adopted by many specialized micrometeorological texts.' - Royal Meteorological Society`Text and diagrams are a model of clarity, logicality and precision, sensitively designed to appeal toall those seeking a basic but comprehensive and scrupulously scientific understanding of the processes in the lower kilometre or so of the atmosphere.' - World Meteorological Organisation
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
857 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-17043-8 (9781138170438)
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Person
Dr T R Oke
Content
Part I Atmospheric systems, CHAPTER 1 ENERGY AND MASS EXCHANGES, CHAPTER 2 PHYSICAL BASIS OF BOUNDARY LAYER CLIMATES, CHAPTER 3 CLIMATES OF SIMPLE NON-VEGETATED SURFACES, CHAPTER 4 CLIMATES OF VEGETATED SURFACES, CHAPTER 5 CLIMATES OF NON-UNIFORM TERRAIN, CHAPTER 6 CLIMATES OF ANIMALS, Part III Man-modified atmospheric environments, CHAPTER 7 INTENTIONALLY MODIFIED CLIMATES, CHAPTER 8 INADVERTENT CLIMATE MODIFICATION, CHAPTER 9 AIR POLLUTION IN THE BOUNDARY LAYER