Bücher der Reihe Environmental Sciences

This book details the way in which the world's plant life partly controls its own environment. It explains some of the underlying mechanisms by which life controls how our planet works, the climate, the atmosphere and the oceans.

As the debate about the environmental cost of nuclear power and the issue of nuclear safety continues, a comprehensive assessment of the Chernobyl accident, its long-term environmental consequences and solutions to the problems found, is timely.

In its revised 2nd edition, this book examines current understanding of the relationship between sunspots and the Earth's climate.

This cutting edge book analyzes the effect of aerosols on the Earth's climate and introduces for the first time satellite aerosol remote sensing over land. The book is written by specialists working at the forefront of research in this important area.

The theory of the scattering of light by small particles is very important in a wide range of applications in atmospheric physics and atmospheric optics, ocean optics, remote sensing, astronomy and astrophysics and biological optics.

Focusing on changes in the marine environment, this book provides a comprehensive description of methods and concepts upon which modern climate change reconstructions and plausible future scenarios are built. The authors also discuss models and data problems.

Focusing on a region where torrential rains, cold-air surges and heat waves are a part of the economy, culture and rhythms of life, The Asian Monsoon examines the monsoon environment. The text analyses paleoclimate records, human influences on the monsoon climate and the monsoon's economic affects.

Pays considerable attention to various aspects of light absorption inside particles, including internal field distributions, MDR resonances, and absorption in restricted regions inside particles.

This updated and expanded second edition of a much lauded work provides a current overview of the impacts of climate change on tropical forests.

Here is a focused, comprehensive reference on recent research on severe convective storms and tornadoes. It features many illustrations of severe storm phenomena from mobile Doppler radars, operational Doppler radars, photographs and numerical simulations.

This book demonstrates that the method, based on the ground polar cap magnetic observations is a reliable diagnosis of the solar wind energy coming into the magnetosphere Method for the uninterruptive monitoring of the magnetosphere state (i.e.

This book describes the progress that has been made in the study of the process of ice rafting. It includes chapters on the concept of ice rafting and ice rafting and climate change.

In a fully updated second edition, this book offers both history and analysis of extreme climate change on Earth. The book provides an complete and independent summary of the latest data on ice ages and interglacial periods, independent of theory or analysis.

This book deals with a particular class of approximation methods in the context of light scattering by small particles. Soft particles occur in ocean optics, biomedical optics, atmospheric optics and in many industrial applications. This class of approximations has been termed as eikonal or soft particle approximations.

This new text offers experienced students a comprehensive review of available techniques for the remote sensing of aerosols. Aerosols may also be responsible for the loss of harvests, human health problems and ecological disasters. Thus, this detailed study of aerosol properties on a global scale could not be more timely.

This book details recent advances in radiative transfer and light scattering optics. Coverage includes: scattering of light by irregularly shaped particles suspended in atmosphere, atmospheric radiative forcing, and optical imaging in biological media.

Updated and revised, this second edition outlines theoretical concepts, simple models and numerical methods for modeling the general circulation of the atmosphere. New topics include the recent progress of high resolution global modeling, as well as aspects of high-resolution global nonhydrostatis models.