Fundamentals and Climate NowPsychology Press, 1972 - 613 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 |
Inhalt
the weather the atmosphere | 3 |
Radiation and the Earths heat supply | 14 |
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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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
albedo amplitude anomalies Antarctic Antarctica anticyclones Arctic Arctic Ocean atmospheric circulation average centre changes circumpolar climatic cloud cold trough convection cyclonic density distribution Earth's surface easterly effects energy equator equatorial eruptions Europe evaporation FLOHN flow frequency Greenland height high latitudes ice ages Iceland increase indicated January jet stream July latent heat layer low latitudes lower m/sec maxima maximum meridional middle latitudes moisture monsoon months mountain normal North Atlantic northern hemisphere observed occur oscillation ozone Pacific pattern period polar pole poleward present epoch pressure gradient prevailing produce rain rainfall range regions ridge salinity sea level sea surface seasonal sector snow solar beam solar constant solar disturbance solar radiation southern stratosphere subtropical anticyclones summer sunspot cycle sunspot number surface temperature surface winds thermal gradient tropical tropopause troposphere upper westerlies upper winds values variations warm water vapour wave lengths weather wind circulation winter zonal zone
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Atmosphere, Weather, and Climate Roger Graham Barry,Richard J. Chorley Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1987 |