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  • Challenges and Opportunities in Agrometeorology

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The global food security and sustainable agriculture are the key challenges before the scientific community in the present era of enhanced climate variability, rapidly rising population and dwindling resources. No part of the world is immune from meteorological extremes of one sort or another posing threat to the food security. Agrometeorology has to make most efficient use of the opportunities ... Leer más

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  • Satellite-based Applications on Climate Change

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    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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  • Storm Chaser

    de Mike Olbinski ...
    "Olbinski chases storms . . . capturing lightning, tornadoes and dramatic cloud formations in images that convey the awesome power and beauty of nature." — International Business TimesThe storms that cross the Great Plains of North America each spring are some of nature's most spectacular. They can also be some of the most dangerous. Most people who live in areas susceptible to these storms keep a ... Leer más

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  • Rocks Of The World

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  • Global Environmental Change and Land Use

    Edición de C.A. Rovers, Han Haarman, A. Verhagen ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The interaction between environmental change and human activities is com plex, requiring the concepts and tools of a number of disciplines for its effective analysis. Land-use and land-cover change has only recently become a topic susceptible to scientific research, as these concepts and tools have been devel oped and made available. Rooted in a broad community concemed with global change, ... Leer más

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  • Oxygen

    A Four Billion Year History

    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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  • Issues in the Impacts of Climate Variability and Change on Agriculture

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    Edición de Linda O. Mearns ...
    This book presents a collection of articles concerning key topics which examine the impacts of climate change and variability on agriculture. The application region is the southeastern United States. The main topics include an investigation of the effect of variations in the spatial scale of climate change scenarios on an agricultural integrated assessment, methods of simulating adaptations of ... Leer más

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  • Characterizing Stellar and Exoplanetary Environments

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    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
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  • The Sun's Influence on Climate

    Series series Princeton Primers in Climate
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    Series series Very Short Introductions
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