Weather, Climate and Climate Change: Human Perspectives
Greg O'Hare, University of Derby
John Sweeney
Rob Wilby, Environment Agency of England and Wales

ISBN-10: 0130283193
ISBN-13: 9780130283191

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper; 444 pp
Published: 04/07/2005

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A timely and accessible analysis of one of the most contentious issues facing the world today - the processes and consequences of natural and human induced changes in both the structure and function of the climate system.

Integrating the latest scientific developments throughout, the text centres on climate change control, addressing how weather and climate impact on environment and society.

  • An introductory examination of the major components of the climate system including: the impact of mass energy on wind motion, atmosphere/ocean interactions, synoptic weather systems, local and urban climates, air pollution episodes, ice cores and ice ages, global warming and climate extremes including drought, storm and flood.
  • Detailed analysis of how future weather and climates can be modelled.
  • Investigates climate and climate change within a regional framework and through the examination of the climate of high, middle and low latitudes.
  • Case studies illustrate and synthesise the main themes within the text.
  • A chapter on climate-human adjustment draws on case studies from both the developed and developing world to explore critical issues such as the varying adaptive capacity, vulnerability and risk of regions and societies to extreme weather events.

1. Introduction
2. Mass Components of the Climate System
3. Energy in the Climate System
4. Motions of the Climate System
5. Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions
6. Changes in the Climate System
7. Modelling the Climate System
8. Weather, Climate and Climate Change of the High Latitudes
9. Weather, Climate and Climate Change of the Mid Latitude Oceanic Margins
10. Weather, Climate and Climate Change of the Mid Latitude Continental Interiors
11. Weather, Climate and Climate Change of the Low Latitudes
12. Human Adjustment to Climate Change

Weather, Climate and Climate Change: Human Perspectives

provides an up-to-date and accessible analysis of one of the most crucial and contentious issues facing the world today - the processes and consequences of natural and human-induced changes in the structure and function of the climate system. The theory of, and evidence for, climate change forms a central role in the text along with how weather and climate impacts on environment and society. Examining the issues as a continuum, the authors present an argument that is both highly topical and contextualised for students and academics alike.

Features include:

  • An introductory examination of the major components of the climate system including coverage of the impact of mass and energy on wind motion, atmosphere/ocean interactions, synoptic weather systems, local and urban climates, air pollution episodes, ice cores and ice ages, global warming and climate extremes including drought, storm and flood.
  • A detailed analysis of how future weather and climates can be modelled.
  • An investigation of climate and climate change within a regional framework and through the examination of the climate of high, middle and low latitudes.
  • Case studies which illustrate and synthesise the main themes within the text.
  • A chapter on ?Climate-human adjustment? which draws on case studies from both the developed and the developing world to explore critical issues such as the varying adaptive capacity, vulnerability and risk of regions and societies to extreme weather events.
  • Latest scientific developments which are integrated in context throughout the text.

 

Weather, Climate and Climate Change will be essential reading to students, academics and professionals in the fields of climate, meteorology and global climate change and of broader interest to those in physical geography and environmental studies/science in general.

Greg O?Hare is Professor of Geography at the University of Derby.

John Sweeney is Senior Lecturer in Geography at National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland.

Rob Wilby is the Climate Change Science Manager at the  Environment Agency, having taken leave of absence from the Department of Geography, King's College London. 

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