Product Description: An amazing, enlightening, and endlessly entertaining look at how weather has shaped our world. Throughout history, great leaders have fallen, the outcomes of mighty battles have been determined, and the tides of earth-shattering events have been turned by a powerful, inscrutable force of nature: the weather...read more

Human Impacts on Weather and Climate is a nonmathematical presentation of the basic physical concepts of how human activity may affect weather and climate. This book assesses the current hypotheses and examines whether the impacts are measurable. It critically evaluates the scientific status of weather modification by cloud seeding, human impacts on regional weather and climate, and human impacts on global climate, including the greenhouse gas hypothesis. Human Impacts on Weather and Climate will be valuable for upper-division undergraduate courses or graduate courses in meteorology, geophysics, earth and atmospheric science, as well as for policy makers and readers with an interest in how humans are affecting the atmosphere.

Examines climate and meteorological conditions in different regions of the world, from the icy tundras to the arid deserts

Product Description: When E.G. Ban mentions the weather, he is not making small-talk. He's referring to eleven thousand years ago, when the earth underwent a major climatic transformation, terminating the last ice age. As a result of this drastic change, a once verdant garden of Eden was transformed into the barren deserts of today's North Africa and the Middle East, while Europe's glacier cover to be gradually replaced by thick, fertile forests...read more

Product Description: This is the first book to introduce readers beyond the meteorological community to both the usefulness of the atmosphere and the serious nature of the weather and climate game. This book should be of interest to students and decision-makers in agriculture, geography, economics and business...read more