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A lightning strike to an unprotected object or system can be disastrous - in the United States lightning is responsible for over 30% of all electric power failures, causes billions of dollars worth of property damage, and an average of 85 fatalities a year. This accessible text describes all aspects of lightning protection and includes many illustrative drawings and photographs. The author examines the physical behavior of lightning, various types of lightning damage, the role of lightning detection and warning in effective protection, as well as options for deflecting or eliminating lightning. U.S. and international lightning protection standards are discussed. This book will be essential reading for everyone involved in the business of lightning protection, including meteorologists, atmospheric scientists, architects, engineers, and fire-safety experts. Insurance practitioners and physicians will find this reference of significant value.

Obra indispensable para los agricultores, de utilidad para los marinos, médicos higienistas y demás clases sociales.

Treball col•lectiu que recull el vocabulari meteorològic, genuí i tradicional, de cada poble que conforma les Garrigues. El llibre se suma als 18 que ja s'han publicat sobre altres comarques catalanes. Treball de gran importància per recuperar un lèxic que els temps moderns han fet oblidar a les noves generacions. El resultat, la recuperació d'un vocabulari creat en una societat agrària l'estructura i la dinàmica de la qual ha canviat radicalment i que en molts casos passava de pares a fills oralment.

Lightning: Physics and Effects is the first book that covers essentially all aspects of lightning, including lightning physics, lightning protection and the interaction of lightning with a variety of objects and systems as well as with the environment. It is written in a style that will be accessible to the technical non-expert and is addressed to anyone interested in lightning and its effects. This will include physicists, engineers working in the power, communications, computer and aviation industries, meteorologists, atmospheric chemists, foresters, ecologists, physicians working in the area of electrical trauma and architects. This comprehensive reference volume contains over 300 illustrations, 70 tables containing quantitative information and a bibliography of more than 6000 references.

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.

Solar radiation data is important for a wide range of applications, e.g. in engineering, agriculture, health sector, and in many fields of the natural sciences. A few examples showing the diversity of applications may include: architecture and building design e.g. air conditioning and cooling systems; solar heating system design and use; solar power generation; weather and climate prediction models; evaporation and irrigation; calculation of water requirements for crops; monitoring plant growth and disease control; and, skin cancer research. Solar radiation data must be provided in a variety of forms to suit these applications. The radiation reaching the upper atmosphere of the Earth is a quantity rather constant in time. But the radiation reaching some point on Earth surface is random in nature. The main cause is the fact that various gases within the atmosphere absorb solar radiation at different wavelengths, and clouds and dust also affect it. There are two ways to obtaining solar radiation data at ground level: by measurement and by modelling.The book will facilitate the calculation of solar radiation required by engineers, designers and scientists and, as a result, will increase the access to needed solar radiation data.

Antonio Madridejos (Barcelona, 1965) és filòleg i periodista, especialista en ciència, tecnologia i medi ambient. Treballa a El Periódico de Catalunya, on des del 1997 és el responsable de l’àrea de

«Muchas veces me preguntan si de verdad está cambiado el clima. En mi respuesta hay una afirmación: el clima siempre ha cambiado, y a veces de forma más espectacular y mucho más temible que como lo e

L'objectiu d'aquest llibre és fixar en lletra impresa les paraules que els nostres pares i sobretot avis i padrins empraven habitualment per a referir-se als fenòmens meteorològics que regien les seves collites i les seves vides, quan l'agricultura i la ramaderia eren les activitats fonamentals i quan tota predicció meteorològica els venia de l'observació directa del cel, de l'experiència i dels coneixements transmesos generació rere generació. Aquests coneixements i aquesta experiència han creat un vocabulari i un tou de locucions i dites d'una riquesa excepcional.

Tormentas, nevadas, temperaturas extremas o anticiclones nos siguen fascinando y, en ocasiones, horrorizando. Son un resquicio incontrolable en un mundo previsible, lo que paradójicamente contrasta con los pobres conocimientos que la mayoria de las personas tiene sobre Meteorologia. Nadie es ajeno a los caprichos de la atmosfera. Los 75 capitulos que forman este libro despejan de forma rigurosa y amena dudas e incognitas del fascinante y desconocido universo de la ciencia del tiempo .

La Climatología Dinámica utiliza una metodología sintética, dirigida al estudio interrelacionado de los principales elementos climáticos (temperatura, presión atmosférica, humedad, precipitación, etc.). Desde una perspectiva, el conocimiento de la dinámica atmosférica resulta vital para comprender la distribución espacial de las variables climáticas y su variación a lo largo del tiempo

Ilustrado con más de cien fotografías de los telespectadores, El libro de El Tiempo, del equipo de TVE que día a día nos ofrece la información meteorológica y nos explica los porqués de cada fenómeno, te ofrece todos los secretos de esta ciencia, y te explica la tecnica fotografica para retratar todo lo que en el cielo te llame la atencion. Y te abre las puestas de su casa, Television Española, para que conozcas de primera mano como es la cocina del Tiempo. Este libro nace como muestra de agradecimiento a todos aquellos que colaboran con el programa cada dia, y del que parte de los beneficios se destinaran a fines solidarios.