Gasp!: The Swift and Terrible Beauty of Air
 It's the first sign of life: that quick inhalation parents wait to hear their babies take, that reassuring gasp of air. From then, each of us breathes 19,000 times daily. That's 650 million inhalations over an average lifespan, all taken involuntarily. ... [... more]
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The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and ...
The question on every American's mind: Can Katrina happen to me where I live? The answer, unfortunately, is yes, yes, and again yes. If you are one of the 150 million Americans who live within 100 miles of a coastline -- and even if you live much farther ... [... more]
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Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years
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Physical Oceanography: Developments Since 1950
This book aims to provide current scientists as well as future generations with a historical overview of the developments in physical oceanography over the last four decades. Senior scientists that have played major roles during that time contributed ... [... more]
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High Resolution Numerical Modelling of the Atmosphere ...
Many key issues in dynamical meteorology and physical oceanography depend on interactions among diverse spatial scales. Atmospheric examples are the role of small-scale gravity waves in the zonal-mean momentum balance in the middle atmosphere, the role ... [... more]
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Regional Frequency Analysis: An Approach Based on L-Moments
Extreme environmental events, such as floods, droughts, rainstorms, and high winds, have severe consequences for human society. Regional frequency analysis helps to solve the problem of estimating the frequency of these rare events at one site by using ... [... more]
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Northeast Snowstorms
Named one of the top 5 meteorology books by "The Wall Street Journal," Northeast Snowstorms is the most comprehensive treatment of winter storms ever compiled. From the foremost experts in the field, this two-volume set includes summaries of ... [... more]
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Climate Change Begins at Home: Life on the Two-Way ...
Climate change is one of the greatest threats that humankind faces in the twenty-first century. But while government and industry fail to act, this book argues, we could all work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 60%, the level necessary to halt the ... [... more]
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The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane ...
The ultimate inside story of the Katrina tragedy—from the cofounder of the LSU Hurricane Center After warning for years about the looming threat of catastrophic flooding in New Orleans, Ivor van Heerden was one of the highest-profile media experts during ... [... more]
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Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change and What It Means ...
Watch out for natural climate change. From warm to cold, wet to dry, it doesn't behave the way scientists thought it did. A drastic climate shift more sudden and troublesome than we'd ever imagined could already be underway. As scientists carefully ... [... more]
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Collision Processes and Excitation of UV Emission from ...
Over the past few decades, the excitation and ionization of atmospheric gases has become an area of intense research. A large amount of data have been accumulated concerning the various elementary processes which occur when photons, electrons and ions ... [... more]
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Florida's Hurricane History
The Sunshine State has an exceptionally stormy past. Vulnerable to storms that arise in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico, Florida has been hit by far more hurricanes than any other state. [... more]
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