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The Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather Second Edition is a thoroughly up-to-date resource with many additions, and revisions since the publication of the First Edition in 1996. In over 330 entries, the Encyclopedia covers essential topics that include the processes that produce weather, the circulation of the atmosphere that generates the world's climates, classification of climates, important scientific concepts used by climatologists and meteorologists, as well as the history atmospheric sciences, biographies of noteworthy contributors to the field, and significant weather events from extreme tropical cyclones to tornadoes to hurricanes. New to this edition are articles on headline-grabbing topics that include the Kyoto Protocol, global warming, tradable permits, and extreme weather.
Each entry is fully cross-referenced, to both definitions of weather- and climate-related terms as well as additional sources for further study. Over 300 photographs, maps, and charts offer highly evocative depictions of various weather and climate conditions around the world and across time. The three-volume Encyclopedia is also equipped with historical examples of disasters caused by bad weather, milestones in the development of the atmospheric sciences, and the geological time scale, making it a comprehensive and authoritative resource for anyone doing research in this area or working in the field.
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Dr. Stephen H. Schneider (1945-2010) was the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Professor of Biological Sciences, Professor (by courtesy) of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and a Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. Dr. Schneider served on the international research panel on global warming that shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with former Vice President Al Gore.
Dr. Michael D. Mastrandrea is Assistant Consulting Professor at the Stanford University Woods Institute for the Environment and a Lecturer in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER).
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0199765324
- ISBN 13 9780199765324
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number2
- Number of pages1488
- EditorSchneider Dr. Stephen H., Root Terry L.
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