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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC is the leading international body for assessing the science related to climate change It provides policymakers with regular assessments of the scientific basis of human induced climate change its impacts and future risks and options for adaptation and mitigation This IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land SRCCL is the most comprehensive and up to date scientific assessment of the multiple interactions between climate change and land assessing climate change desertification land degradation sustainable land management food security and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems It assesses the options for governance and decision making across multiple scales It serves policymakers decision makers stakeholders and all interested parties with unbiased up to date policy relevant information This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core

A comprehensive and lucid account of the physics and dynamics of the lowest one to two kilometers of the Earth's atmosphere in direct contact with the Earth's surface, known as the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). Dr. Garratt emphasizes the application of the ABL problems to numerical modeling of the climate, which makes this book unique among recent texts on the subject. He begins with a brief introduction to the ABL before leading to the development of mean and turbulence equations and the many scaling laws and theories that are the cornerstone of any serious ABL treatment. Modeling of the ABL is crucially dependent for its realism on the surface boundary conditions, so chapters four and five deal with aerodynamic and energy considerations, with attention given to both dry and wet land surfaces and the sea. The author next treats the structure of the clear-sky, thermally stratified ABL, including the convective and stable cases over homogeneous land, the marine ABL, and the internal boundary layer at the coastline. Chapter seven then extends this discussion to the cloudy ABL. This is particularly relevant to current research because the extensive stratocumulus regions over the subtropical oceans and stratus regions over the Arctic have been identified as key players in the climate system. In the final chapters, Dr. Garratt summarizes the book's material by discussing appropriate ABL and surface parameterization schemes in general circulation models of the atmosphere that are being used for climate stimulation.

This book provides a detailed introduction to the principles of Doppler and polarimetric radar, focusing in particular on their use in the analysis of weather systems. The design features and operation of practical radar systems are highlighted throughout the book in order to illustrate important theoretical foundations. The authors begin by discussing background topics such as electromagnetic scattering, polarization, and wave propagation. They then deal in detail with the engineering aspects of pulsed Doppler polarimetric radar, including the relevant signal theory, spectral estimation techniques, and noise considerations. They close by examining a range of key applications in meteorology and remote sensing. The book will be of great use to graduate students of electrical engineering and atmospheric science as well as to practitioners involved in the applications of polarimetric radar systems.

La desertificación representa, cada día más, un grave problema económico, social y ecológico para muchos países de todas las regiones del mundo. La Comunidad Internacional, consciente del problema, ha comenzado a mostrar una preocupacion creciente por detener este fenomeno. Ya en la Conferencia de Nairobi (1977) y especialmente en la Conferencia de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Medio Ambiente y el Desarrollo (CNUMAD, 1992) se propuso canalizar todos los esfuerzos a traves de un convenio internacional especifico. Finalmente el 22 de diciembre de 1996 entro en vigor la Convencion de las Naciones Unidas de Lucha contra la Desertificacion en los paises afectados por sequia grave o desertificacion, en particular Africa (CLD) que fue concebida como un marco juridicamente vinculante para dar una respuesta global al deterioro medioambiental y lograr medios de subsistencia sostenibles.

Geomorfología Climática Mateo Gutiérrez Elorza Este libro proporciona una visión global de los procesos geomorfológicos y de los modelados resultantes. Consta de 25 capítulos divididos en ocho partes que tratan de: Geomorfologia de las zonas glaciares, periglaciares, aridas, eolica, aplicada a las zonas aridas, de las zonas tropicales, y cambio climatico. Para estudiantes de Geomorfoligia y para profesionales interesadoos en la importancia del clima en la generacion de las formas de relieve.

In its ninth edition, Atmosphere, Weather and Climate is the essential introduction to weather processes and climatic conditions around the world, their observed variability and changes, and projected future trends. It presents a comprehensive coverage of global meteorology and climatology, and in this new edition the latest scientific ideas are expressed in a clear, non-mathematical matter.