ISBN0231174926 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0231542860 (e-book)
9780231174923 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780231542869 (e-book)
一般注記1. Feeling the heat -- Local astronomy -- The blue-green planet -- Blackbody radiation -- The green house effect -- Heat transfer -- 2. Under the heavens and the seas -- Surface irradiance and surface features -- Long-term orbital effects -- Water cycle -- Oceanic circulations: heat pumps -- El Nĩo-Southern Oscillation -- 3. The air we breathe -- Compostion and structure -- Absorption and emisssion -- Tropospheric circulations-- 4. Dynamic planet -- Greenhouses and other worlds -- Energy-balanced model for planet Earth -- Snowball Earth -- All change -- General circulation models -- Past and future climate change -- The future -- 5. Oceans of data -- Development of data collection -- Land surface data -- Ocean surface data -- Atmospheric data -- Data from space -- Data storage and transfer -- 6. Statistically speaking -- Statistics are everywhere - probably -- Measurement error -- Starting conditions and chaos -- Prediction, amid randomness and chaos -- 7. A condensed account of clouds, rain, and snow -- Clouds are crucial -- Clouding the issue -- Fog -- Precipitation -- Thunderstorms -- 8. Weather mechanisms -- The story so far -- A stampede of forces -- Re: lapses -- There's nothing stable in the world -- Uproar's your only music -- Enter the vortex -- Front and center -- 9. Weather extremes, the new normal -- Feeling the heat -- Drought -- In from the cold -- Water, water everywhere -- Storms -- Winds of (mis)fortune -- Climate attribution -- 10. The world of weather forecasting -- Prediciton: forcasts improving rapidly -- The weather industry -- The face of weather forecasting -- Climate for change -- And that wraps up your weather for today.