Climate: Past, Present and FutureRoutledge, 02.09.2003 - 624 Seiten 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 |
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The atmosphere in motion | 68 |
Seasonal changes | 138 |
The stratosphere | 187 |
Cyclic and quasiperiodic phenomena | 212 |
Anomalous patterns of atmospheric circulation | 254 |
The oceans | 307 |
The water cycle | 346 |
Some observed causes of climatic variation | 385 |
monthly mean pressure at sea level associated | 496 |
Observational reference data and classification of climates | 501 |
References | 555 |
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