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    Climate and other environmental changes are drawing unprecedented concern and attention from national governments, international organizations and local communities. Global warming has left noticeable impacts on the environment and the ecosystems it supports (including humans), and has important implications for sustainable economic and social development in the future. Satellite observations of ... Leer más

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    Series series Princeton Science Library
    The remarkable scientific story of how Earth became an oxygenated planetThe air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it come to be this way? Donald Canfield covers this vast history, emphasizing its relationship to the evolution of life and the evolving ... Leer más

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  • The Sun's Influence on Climate

    Series series Princeton Primers in Climate
    The Earth's climate system depends entirely on the Sun for its energy. Solar radiation warms the atmosphere and is fundamental to atmospheric composition, while the distribution of solar heating across the planet produces global wind patterns and contributes to the formation of clouds, storms, and rainfall. The Sun’s Influence on Climate provides an unparalleled introduction to this vitally ... Leer más

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  • Turbulence and Dispersion in the Planetary Boundary Layer

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive review of our current understanding of the planetary boundary layer, particularly the turbulent exchanges of momentum, heat and passive scalars between the surface of the Earth and the atmosphere.It presents and discusses the observations and the theory of the turbulent boundary layer, both for homogeneous and more realistic heterogeneous surface conditions, as ... Leer más

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    Weather for Kids - Earth Sciences

    Series series Children's Weather Books
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  • An Introduction to Lightning

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    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
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  • Handbook of Slope Stabilisation

    Edición de J. A. R. Ortigao, Alberto Sayao ...
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  • Storm Chaser

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  • Mineral Dust

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  • Characterizing Stellar and Exoplanetary Environments

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  • Persistent Pollution – Past, Present and Future

    School of Environmental Research - Organized by Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht

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