Global Energy and Water Cycles - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521032857 ISBN 13: 9780521032858

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

The abundance of water in all three phases makes the Earth unique in the Solar System. Knowledge of the fluxes and changes of phase of water is essential for an understanding of weather, climate, and life itself. This book provides a state-of-the-art treatment of advances in our understanding through improvements in global models, in the representation of the processes included in the models, and in related observations. It deals with fluxes within the atmosphere, at and beneath the land and ocean surface, and the interaction between them. In order to provide authoritative and coherent coverage of an area of environmental science that is developing rapidly, the book draws on the expertise of many of the world's leading researchers across a wide range of meteorology, hydrology and oceanography.

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Book Description:

Knowledge of the fluxes and changes of phase of water are essential for an understanding of weather, climate and, indeed, of life itself. This book provides a state-of-the-art treatment of models and processes related to these fluxes. In order to provide authoritative and coherent coverage of an area of environmental science that is developing rapidly, the book draws upon the expertise of many of the world's leading researchers in meteorology, hydrology and oceanography. The book will be of main interest to graduate students and researchers in these subjects, but it will also appeal to final-year undergraduate students.

Review:

"Almost all of the relevant processes involved in the water and energy cycle...have their own subsections in the book. These include such diverse fields as numerical schemes for water-vapour advection, cloud physics, the movement of water through the soil and the ocean's response to fresh water. Each section presents cutting edge science, emphasizes uncertainties and projects what future research is needed and likely." Nature

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0521032857
• ISBN 13: 9780521032858
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 308
• Editor: Browning K. A., Gurney R. J.