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The past 100 years are a key period for understanding climate variability and climate change as it marks the changeover from a climate system dominated by natural influences to a climate system dominated by anthropogenic influences. This volume compiles a number of contributions to a workshop held in Gwatt, Switzerland, in July 2006 dealing with different aspects of climate change, variability, and extremes during the past 100 years. The individual contributions cover a broad range of topics, ranging from the re-evaluation of historical marine data to the effect of solar variability on the stratosphere. ''This volume brings together a fascinating and varied set of papers on climatic variability and change. The papers highlight what modelers can learn by greater study of observations, while the latter were informed about the types of observations required to reduce model uncertainties'' - Phil Jones, University of East Anglia. ''The authors of this volume extend the classical reanalysis perspective for studying climate phenomena during the past 100 years!'' - Heinz Wanner, Director, Swiss NCCR Climate.

More than 20 years after the last book on the subject the worldwide precipitation community has produced a comprehensive overview of its activities, achievements, ongoing research and future plans. Measuring Precipitation from Space presents state-of-the-art rainfall estimation algorithms, validation strategies, precipitation modelling, and assimilation in numerical weather prediction models. Clouds and precipitation observations and modelling are addressed for the improvement of the rainfall product quality. Special attention is given to the applications to monitoring and forecasting weather events and to climate monitoring in a frame of growing public interest. No other book can offer to scientists, Ph.D. or equivalent students, professionals in environmental disciplines, and decision makers such a powerful tool to understand the basics of remote sensing for precipitation, to make use of existing products and to have a glimpse of the near future missions and instruments. Other categories of readers will find in the book reference material for their questions on weather and climate applications. The essays are written by the most qualified experts in the field of passive and active remote sensing, cloud and mesoscale modelling, validation and space mission planning. Top academic and research institutions and space agencies have concurred to the first joint effort ever.

incluida en el seno de una colección dedicada a recoger y perpetuar en forma de libro algunas de las grandes exposiciones realizadas por el museo Geológico-museo de Historia Natural Británico, la presente monografia se plantea el estudio del fenomeno volcanico. Acompañado de un centenar de fotografias, ilustraciones y diagramas, la gran mayoria de ellos en color, el texto nos instruye sobre como se originan los volcanes, informandonos de su comportamiento y del modo en que el hombre ha aprendido a convivir con ellos, asi como a utilizarlos en su provecho y a comprender y predecir su actividad. La traduccion de la obra corre a cargo de la doctora Menchu Ortiz de Lanzagorta, Catedratica de Ciencias Naturales en institutos de bachillerato y autora a su vez de varios textos y manuales didacticos en la materia de su especialidad.por su lenguaje y contenidos generales, la obra es un instrumento de lectura, de consulta y trabajo tan util para profesionales y universitarios (especializados en vulcanologia, geologia y geografia fisica, pero tambien en otras ramas de los estudios de Ciencias) como en bibliotecas y departamentos de Biologia y Ciencias Naturales en centros de enseñanza secundaria y bachilleratos. Accesible tanto como lectura como en calidad de material auxiliar y de ampliacion para los estudiantes de esos mismos niveles, es tambien obra idonea para incluir en los fondos de bibliotecas cientificas y generales, por abarcar un publico muy amplio interesado en la materia aqui estudiada.incluida en el seno de una colección dedicada a recoger y perpetuar en forma de libro algunas de las grandes exposiciones realizadas por el museo Geológico-museo de Historia Natural Británico, la presente monografia se plantea el estudio del fenomeno volcanico. Acompañado de un centenar de fotografias, ilustraciones y diagramas, la gran mayoria de ellos en color, el texto nos instruye sobre como se originan los volcanes, informandonos de su comportamiento y del modo en que el hombre ha aprendido a convivir con ellos, asi como a utilizarlos en su provecho y a comprender y predecir su actividad. La traduccion de la obra corre a cargo de la doctora Menchu Ortiz de Lanzagorta, Catedratica de Ciencias Naturales en institutos de bachillerato y autora a su vez de varios textos y manuales didacticos en la materia de su especialidad.

Synoptic meteorology, the study of large-scale weather systems and forecasting using observation, and dynamic meteorology, the study of the laws of physics involved in air movement, are treated in this major new text in two volumes. The author, a meteorologist noted for his research on tornadoes and severe storms, based his work on material he has taught for the past 14 years at the University of Oklahoma. There are no modern texts on the topic. Volume II covers the formation, motion and climatology of extratropical weather systems in the context of the quasigeostrophic theory and "IPV" thinking, the formation and structure of fronts and jets, applications of semigeostrophic theory, and the observed structure and dynamics of precipitation systems in midlatitudes.