For most of history, humans have made every possible effort to
accurately foretell the weather, evolving from the use of
guesswork, rule of thumb, and signs in the sky to the development
of contemporary forecasting techniques drawn from two scientific
disciplines, climatology and meteorology. The Encyclopedia of
Climate and Weather 2nd Edition provides a comprehensive history of
the development of this practice, as well as provides a thoroughly
up-to-date resource with many additions, revisions, and updates to
this field of ever-increasing importance since the publication of
the First Edition in 1996. In over 330 entries, the Encyclopedia
covers essential topics that include the processes that produce
weather, the circulation of the atmosphere that produces the
world's climates, classification of climates, important scientific
concepts used by climatologists and meteorologists, as well as the
history atmospheric sciences, biographies of noteworthy
contributors to the field, and significant weather events, from
extreme tropical cyclones to tornadoes to hurricanes. New to this
edition are articles on headline-grabbing topics that include the
Kyoto Protocol, global warming, tradable permits, and extreme
weather. Each entry is fully cross-referenced, to both definitions
of weather- and climate-related terms as well as additional sources
for further study. Over 300 photographs, maps, and charts offer
highly evocative depictions of various weather and climate
conditions around the world and across time. The Encyclopedia is
also equipped with historical examples of disasters caused by bad
weather, milestones in the development of the atmospheric sciences,
and the geological time scale round out this survey, making it a
comprehensive and authoritative resource for anyone doing research
in this area or working in the field.
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