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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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  Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938

  by David Brooks, 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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  Isaac's Storm : The Drowning of Galveston

  by Isaac Monroe Cline, 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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  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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  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)
• Future Weather & the Greenhouse EffectJohn Gibbons, John R. Gribbin

  

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  Future Weather & the Greenhouse Effect

  by John Gibbons, John R. Gribbin

• Mathematical problems in the geophysical sciences (Lectures in applied mathematics, v. 13-14)

  

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  Mathematical problems in the geophysical sciences (Lectures in applied mathematics, v. 13-14)

• Atmospheric Circulation Systems: Their Structure and Physical InterpretationErik Herbert Palmen

  

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  Atmospheric Circulation Systems: Their Structure and Physical Interpretation

  by Erik Herbert Palmen

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  Sun, Weather, And Climate

  by John R. Herman

  This work reviews both long and short-term meteorological variations related to solar activity and the few physical linking mechanisms that have been suggested to explain the relationships. Several new mechanisms are postulated with varying degrees of completeness to supplement those already reported in the literature. Physical background material is provided where appropriate to assist the reader in grasping the... (more)
• An Introduction to Climate (McGraw-Hill series in geography)Glenn Thomas Trewartha

  

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  An Introduction to Climate (McGraw-Hill series in geography)

  by Lyle H. Horn, Glenn Thomas Trewartha

• Tropical meteorology and tropical cyclonesHerbert Riehl

  

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  Tropical meteorology and tropical cyclones

  by Herbert Riehl

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  Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather: 2-Volume Set

  With more than 300 entries covering topics from acid rain to zonal circulation, the Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather is the most comprehensive, up-to-date reference work available on the past, present, and future of the global environment. Authored by leading scholars from around the world, the encyclopedia masterfully brings together information derived from recent advances in computing, physics, mathematics,... (more)
• Climatic History and the FutureH. H. Lamb

  

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  Climatic History and the Future

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• Climatology from SatellitesEric C. Barrett

  

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  Climatology from Satellites

  by E. C. Barrett

• Ice Age (Penguin Press Science S.)John and Mary Gribbin

  

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  Ice Age (Penguin Press Science S.)

  by John and Mary Gribbin

  The Theory That Came In From The Cold.
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  The Ice-Age History of Southwestern National Parks

  by Scott A. Elias

  With its warm, dry climate and abundance of caves and rockshelters, the Southwest is a repository of fossils that provide unparalleled opportunities to study the ancient past. During the last ice age - more than 10,000 years ago - the desert regions of the American Southwest flourished, with conifer woodlands blanketing a landscape where camels, mammoths, dire wolves, short-faced bears, and ground sloths thrived.... (more)
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  El Nino: Unlocking the Secrets of the Master Weather-Maker

  by J. Madeleine Nash

  It brings droughts, mud slides, killer storms, and even epidemics and hordes of frogs and rats. Now for the first time, here is the complete -and fascinating-story of the powerful weather-maker known as El NiÒo. In this saga of scientists and civilians, murderous storms and ecological shifts, award-winning Time(r) magazine science writer J. Madeline Nash reveals the mysterious sources of El NiÒo and its... (more)
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  The Emergence of Numerical Weather Prediction: Richardson's Dream

  by Peter Lynch

  Lewis Fry Richardson dreamt that scientific weather prediction would one day become a practical reality. Before his ideas could bear fruit several advances were needed: better understanding of the dynamics of the atmosphere; stable computational algorithms to integrate the equations; regular observations of the free atmosphere; and powerful automatic computer equipment. By 1950 advances in all these fronts were... (more)