Making sense of weather and climate : : the science behind the forecasts /

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Publisher: Columbia University Press,

Publication date: c2017.

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Capacity, size, etc.: x, 292 pages : ; 24 cm.

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Note (General)：: 1. Feeling the heat -- Local astronomy -- The blue-green planet -- Blackbody radiation -- The green house effect -- Heat transfer -- 2. Under the heav...

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東京都立中央図書館
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Material Type: 図書
ISBN: 0231174926 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0231542860 (e-book)
9780231174923 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780231542869 (e-book)
Title: Making sense of weather and climate : : the science behind the forecasts /
Publication, Distribution, etc.: New York : : Columbia University Press,
Publication Date: c2017.
Extent: x, 292 pages : ; 24 cm.
Contributor: Mark Denny.
Text Language Code: eng
NDC 10th ed.: 451.28 : Meteorology
Target Audience: 一般
Note (General): 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.
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Call No.: 451.2-D41-M
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Bibliographic ID (SomokuID): 1352028892
7109720213
OCLC No.: 2016022754
https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2016022754
(OCoLC)950448528
https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/(OCoLC)950448528