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UNINA9910818815503321 |
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Autore |
Lamb H. H. |
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Titolo |
Climate : present, past and future. Volume 1, Fundamentals and climate now / / H.H. Lamb |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-63975-6 |
0-203-80431-7 |
1-299-47683-X |
1-136-63976-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (645 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Earth & Environmental Sciences |
Meteorology & Climatology |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"First published in 1972 by Methuen & Co. Ltd"--T.p. verso. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-596) and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Climate: Present, Past and Future; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Tables; Figures; Acknowledgments; Foreword by Sir Graham Sutton; Introduction; Part I Fundamentals; 1 Concepts and definitions: the weather, the atmosphere and the sun; 2 Radiation and the Earth's heat supply; 3 The atmosphere in motion; 4 Seasonal changes; 5 The stratosphere; 6 Cyclic and quasi-periodic phenomena; 7 Anomalous patterns of atmospheric circulation, weather and climate; 8 The oceans; 9 The water cycle; 10 Some observed causes of climatic variation; APPENDIXES TO PART I |
I Supplementary tablesII The production and decay of radioactive carbon in the atmosphere; III Orbit data; IV Departures from the long-term average of monthly mean pressure at sea level associated with different phases of the sunspot cycle; Part II Climate now; 11 Observational reference data and classification of climates; World maps; World-wide classification of climates; World climatic table; References; Geographical index; Subject index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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First published in 1972, this first volume of Professor Lamb's study of our changing climate deals with the fundamentals of climate and climatology, as well as providing global data on the contemporary |
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