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Isaac's Storm
A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
by Erik Larson
September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over six thousand people in what... (more)
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The Little Ice Age
How Climate Made History, 1300-1850
by Brian M. Fagan
"< The Little Ice Age > could do for the historical study of climate what Michel Foucault's classic Madness and Civilization did for the historical study of mental illness: make it a respectable subject for scholarly inquiry." -- Scientific American . The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how this altered climate... (more)
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Cold: Adventures in the World's Frozen Places
by Bill Streever
From avalanches to glaciers, from seals to snowflakes, and from Shackleton's expedition to "The Year Without Summer," Bill Streever journeys through history, myth, geography, and ecology in a year-long search for cold--real, icy, 40-below cold. In July he finds it while taking a dip in a 35-degree Arctic swimming hole; in September while excavating our planet's ancient and not so ancient ice ages; and in October... (more)
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Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938
by R. A. Scotti
This spellbinding narrative, focusing on the extraordinary human drama that unfolded as an unlikely alignment of meteorological conditions conspired to bring a deadly tropical cyclone to the Northeast in the summer of 1938, summons back the most ferocious storm ever to hit the East Coast. It was a natural disaster so intense that it indelibly marked not only the lives of families across seven states but also the... (more)
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Floods, Famines, and Emperors
El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations
by Brian M. Fagan
In 1997 and early 1998, one of the most powerful El Niños ever recorded disrupted weather patterns all over the world. Europe suffered through a record freeze as the American West was hit with massive floods and snowstorms; in the western Pacific, meanwhile, some island nations literally went bone dry and had to have water flown in on transport planes.Such effects are not new: climatologists now know the El Niño... (more)
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The Winds of Change
Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations
by Eugene Linden
The Winds of Change places the horrifying carnage unleashed on New Orleans, Mississippi, and Alabama by Hurricane Katrina in context. Climate has been humanity's constant, if moody, companion. At times benefactor or tormentor, climate nurtured the first stirrings of civilization and then repeatedly visited ruin on empires and peoples. Eugene Linden reveals a recurring pattern in which civilizations become... (more)
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The Two-Mile Time Machine
Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future
by Richard B. Alley
Richard Alley, one of the world's leading climate researchers, tells the fascinating history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings of ice from cores drilled in Greenland. In the 1990s he and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery that the last ice age came to an abrupt end over a period of only three years. Here Alley offers the first popular account of the wildly fluctuating... (more)
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The Long Summer
How Climate Changed Civilization
by Brian M. Fagan
Humanity evolved in an Ice Age in which glaciers covered much of the world. But starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to climb. Civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, the era known as the Holocene-the long summer of the human species. In The Long Summer , Brian Fagan brings us the first detailed record of climate change during these 15,000 years of warming, and shows... (more)
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The Great Warming
Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
by Brian M. Fagan
How the earth’s previous global warming phase, from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries, reshaped human societies from the Arctic to the Sahara—a wide-ranging history with sobering lessons for our own time. From the tenth to the fifteenth centuries the earth experienced a rise in surface temperature that changed climate worldwide—a preview of today’s global warming. In some areas, including Western Europe,... (more)
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Ice Age (Penguin Press Science S.)
by John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin
The Theory That Came In From The Cold.
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End of Evolution
by Peter Douglas Ward
A paleontologist and author of On Methuselah's Trail draws on present-day research and the fossil record to recreate prehistoric life and to search for clues to the catastrophic mass extinctions that have transformed the evolution of life.
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Wind: How the Flow of Air Has Shaped Life, Myth, and the Land
by Jan DeBlieu
The winds of the world have sculpted the land and all aspects of nature, but they've also shaped humans — histories, cultures and settlements. Ephemeral and powerful, the wind is impossible to capture in a single phrase or image. In Wind, Jan DeBlieu sets out to better understand this force of nature by exploring its many aspects and effects, large and small, in a quest that spans the United States. The... (more)
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Ice Ages: Solving the Mystery
by Katherine Palmer Imbrie, John Imbrie
This book tells the exciting story of the ice ages--what they were like, why they occurred, and when the next one is due. The solution to the ice age mystery originated when the National Science Foundation organized the CLIMAP project to study changes in the earth's climate over the past 700,000 years. One of the goals was to produce a map of the earth during the last ice age. Scientists examined cores of sediment... (more)
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Climate, History and the Modern World
by H. H. Lamb
In this internationally acclaimed book, Hubert Lamb explores what we know about climate, how the past record of climate can be reconstructed, the causes of climatic variation, and its impact on human affairs now and in the historical and prehistorical past. This second edition incorporates important new material on recent advances in weather forecasting, global warming, the ozone layer, pollution and... (more)
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Boundary Layer Climates
by T. R. Oke
Explains those climates formed near the ground in terms of the cycling of energy and mass through systems.
Monsoons
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Monsoons
Presented here is a multifaceted view of the monsoon - its lore, its societal impact, and its meteorology. The book includes an economic analysis of the value of weather and climate data in developing countries, thorough treatment of monsoon variability on paleoclimate time scales, topographical influences on monsoons and ocean-monsoon interactions, the latest information on the tools being used to predict the... (more)
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Volcano Weather: The Story of 1816, the Year Without a Summer
by Henry M. Stommel
Volcano Weather, written by Henry and Elizabeth Stommel. The story of the year without a summer, 1816. Elizabeth Stommel, a Minneapolis, MN native and her husband Henry wrote this fascinating book about the year without a summer. In 1816, New England, New York and Canada suffered their coldest summer in history. Yes, Summer! The book is an absorbing combination of historical facts, scientific data and wonderful... (more)
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Atmospheric Data Analysis (Cambridge Atmospheric and Space Science Series)
by Roger Daley
Atmospheric Data Analysis is intended to fill a void in the atmospheric science literature and curricula. The book is self contained, and includes topics important in several other fields outside atmospheric observation, including atmospheric dynamics and statistics. It outlines the physical and mathematical basis of all aspects of atmospheric analysis. The emphasis is on the theoretical foundation of the subject... (more)
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Introduction to Geochemical Modeling
by Francis Albare?de
Modern geochemistry aims to provide an accurate description of geological processes, and a set of models and quantitative rules that help predict the evolution of geological systems. This work is an introduction to the mathematical methods of geochemical modeling, largely based on examples presented with full solutions. It shows how geochemical problems, dealing with mass balance, equilibrium, fractionation and... (more)
The challenge of climate: man and his environmentRobert Silverberg
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The challenge of climate: man and his environment
by Robert Silverberg