Product Description: Earths life-enabling atmosphere, unique in the known universe, is the topic of this engaging title. Readers will learn about the atmospheres layers, composition, and evolution. The atmospheres role in creating weather is explained, with topics such as atmospheric pressure, cloud formation, and precipitation clearly addressed...read more

John Marshall Tanner, a private detective, investigates the mysterious, threatening phone calls his secretary has been receiving from a man who seems to know everything about her

Product Description: Although scarcely 20 years have passed since the creation of the first laser, laser engineering has enjoyed a variety of applications in science and in practice. Among these applications, a special pI ace is held by those related to the propagation of laser radiation in the atmosphere...read more

Product Description: The NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Transport Processes in the Middle Atmosphere" was held in Erice, Sicily, from November 23 through November 27, 1986. In addition to NATO, the workshop was supported by the International School of Atmospheric Physics of the Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture, and by the National Research Council of Italy...read more

Product Description: Prior to the space age, meteorologists rarely paid particular attention to the height regions above the tropopause. What was known about the upper atmosphere above about 100 km came essentially from ionospheric and geomagnetic research...read more

This book is an extensive yet self-contained reference of single microparticle studies as they have been performed for many years by the authors. With the range of theoretical and experimental tools available it has become possible to use the many unique properties of droplets and small particles to investigate phenomena as diverse as, linear and nonlinear optics, solution thermodynamics, gas/solid and gas/liquid chemical reactions, transport properties such as gas phase diffusion coefficients, rate processes in the continuum and non-continuum regimes, trace gas uptake by aerosol droplets related to atmospheric chemistry and ozone depletion, phoretic phenomena, Raman spectroscopy, particle charge, evaporation and condensation processes. Throughout the book the main concern of the authors was to provide the reader with a visualization of the significance and application of the theory by experimental results.

Product Description: The author of Dirt and Oak brings to life this quickest, most sustaining, most communicative element of the earth. Air sustains the living. Every creature breathes to live, exchanging and changing the atmosphere. Water and dust spin and rise, make clouds and fall again, fertilizing the dirt...read more

Product Description: Among the chemical and physical processes involved in the transformation of pollutants between their sources and their ultimate deposition, those associated with clouds, aerosols and precipitation must be rated as the most difficult both to study and to understand...read more

Product Description: Protecting the Ozone Layer: Lessons, Models, and Prospects Since the mid-1980s, the international community has adopted several significant instruments designed to reverse the degradation of the life support systems of the planet...read more

Product Description: The NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Coupling Processes in the Lower and Middle atmosphere held in Loen, Norway in May 1992 was, in the estimation of apparently all participants, an enormous success. The 18 invited speakers included many of the leaders in the field and resulted in the attendance of a large number of contributing speakers and observers...read more

Product Description: An exploration of the fluids on the surface of the earth and the gases that surround us. The work explores the evolution of these interactions during the earths history, theories regarding the future of the atmosphere and oceans and specific causes and e

This entertaining rap explains that we cannot live for more than a few minutes without air and why it is important to breathe clean air. Children will learn about photosynthesis, how trees help clean the air, how air moves, different names for air, how air has no shape but fills space, its presence in water, and how wind can be harnessed as a clean source of energy.

We have the many layers of gases that surround our planet to thank for making Earth a habitable place. This instructive volume explains how Earths atmosphere warms the planet, moderates its diurnal and nocturnal temperatures, and protects it from harmful rays. The book discusses how Earths atmosphere evolved over time and presents the ways scientists have learned about these changes. Special attention is paid to the changes in the atmosphere that people have caused over the last two centuries, making this a very timely and topical read.

Product Description: This series explores Earths atmosphere and local space neighborhood.

Product Description: How did eighteenth-century travellers experience, describe and represent the urban environments they encountered as they made the Grand Tour? This fascinating book focuses on the changing responses of the British to the cities of Florence, Rome, Naples and Venice, during a period of unprecedented urbanisation at home...read more

Product Description: Our knowledge of the heliosphere in three dimensions near solar minimum has advanced significantly in the last 10 years, largely as a result of the on-going ESAINASA Ulysses mission. Similar advances in our understanding of the global heliosphere near solar maximum are to be expected with the return of Ulysses to high solar latitudes in 2000/200 I...read more

Product Description: Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Cambio climatico y calentamiento global / Climate change and global warmingAuthor: Lopez, Victor Manuel LopezPublisher: Editorial Trillas Sa De CvPublication Date: 2009/09/30Number of Pages: 239Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress:...read more