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Whether ruining a commute or devastating entire countries, inclement weather has the power to capture attention and headlines. This book examines the science that gives us a greater understanding of the patterns that produce hurricanes, tornadoes, cyclones, and a host of related conditions. It also discusses another persistent issue of inclement weather, which is how to better predict climatic extremes.
62) La meteorología
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El hombre se ha interesado por predecir los fenómenos meteorológicos desde la más remota Antigüedad, debido a la importante influencia que dichos fenómenos tienen en el desarrollo de la vida en general; no obstante, la meteorología, como ciencia, es relativamente joven. Gracias a sus teorías y estadísticas, en la actualidad podemos entender cómo tienen lugar los distintos fenómenos meteorológicos y explicar con exactitud las causas que...
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Una estación meteorológica posible se constituye en una herramienta, no sólo para la recolección de valiosos datos en lugares apartados, sino también como un excelente ejercicio académico para que niños y estudiantes conozcan algunos conceptos de clima e identifiquen patrones del tiempo atmosférico y su relación con la vida diaria (e.g. comportamieto de las aves, floración, formación de lluvias, prácticas agrícolas), aprendiendo mediante...
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The word “terraforming” conjures up many exotic images and perhaps even wild emotions, but at its core it encapsulates the idea that worlds can be changed by direct human action.
The ultimate aim of terraforming is to alter a hostile planetary environment into one that is Earth-like, and eventually upon the surface of the new and vibrant world that you or I could walk freely about and explore. It is not entirely clear that this high goal of terraforming...
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Australia's favourite science guru explains the facts about climate change - and how we can fix it
Is the planet reeeeeally warming up?
But carbon's natural, isn't it?
How could planes fly without fossil fuels?
What's a pteropod and why should I care?
Kelp? How can it help?
One of Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki's jobs as Australia's most popular science communicator is to answer people's questions about climate change.
Now, in this never dull, easy-to-understand...
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Discover the meaning behind 80 weather-related sayings from one of Canada's top meteorologists.
On Cindy Day's grandmother's farm, the weather wasn't predicted with a computer or official forecast but by accumulated wisdom and careful observation. Cindy's grandma was a constant prognosticator, making predictions about the weather that more often than not, proved correct!
Grandma Says is a collection of 80 weather-related sayings that Cindy recalls...
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Water is fundamental to all life. From the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, to the extreme water shortages that have struck California in recent years, modern societies often take its abundance for granted until it unexpectedly becomes scarce. Drought is one of the many problems anthropogenic climate change may exacerbate, but it is also a complex phenomenon at the intersection of a range of scientific disciplines and public policy issues. In this innovative...
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Extrait: "De la terre échauffée par les rayons du soleil vainqueur de l'hiver, montent des senteurs champêtres. Au bord des prés, le long des chemins, fleurissent les peupliers, les frênes, les ormes, et les érables, que nous appelons « azeraüs ». Sous les futaies, au bas des talus rocheux, les pervenches tapissent le sol et, le long des haies - des « randals » - les prunelliers développent leurs fleurs blanches."
À PROPOS DES ÉDITIONS...
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"Winner of the 2001 Book Award in Science, Phi Beta Kappa" "One of Choices Outstanding Academic Titles for 2001" Richard B. Alley is the Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences at Pennsylvania State University and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. The author of more than 240 scientific papers, he was also the host of the PBS miniseries Earth: The Operators' Manual.
In the 1990s Richard B. Alley and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery...
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This is weather beyond your wildest imagination-yet it's all true: showers of worms from the sky, watermelon snow, gory storms, and other freakish and fun phenomena! These stories are anything but ordinary, and they will leave you stunned, horrified, amazed, and sometimes even amused at the incredible things nature can do. Gathered from historic records, present-day news reports and research studies, and spanning the globe from the Sahara to the tundra...
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Découvrez toutes les réponses à vos questions sur la météorologie, cette science en constante évolution, utile dans le quotidien de tout un chacun.
Peut-on toucher un arc-en-ciel? Pourquoi le cyclone a-t-il un œil et porte-t-il un nom? Que signifie un ciel rouge à l'aube ou au crépuscule ? Qu'est-ce qu'une aurore boréale? Qui a inventé la rose des vents? À quoi servent les girouettes? Qu'est-ce que le Gulf Stream ? Comment se forment...
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Flash floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, mudslides, thunderstorms, and wildfires - these devastating events are happening around the world at an alarming rate. As a Meteorologist on CNN and HLN, Bonnie Schneider reports on these natural disasters, explaining when they're likely to strike, and telling viewers how to respond when they do. In Extreme Weather, Schneider distills that information into a guide for readers. She interviews experts...
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The shocking inside story of the fight to halt climate change over the past twenty-five years by a world-renowned scientist.
Ours is the age of global warming. Rising sea levels, extreme weather, forest fires. Dire warnings are everywhere, so why has it taken so long for the crisis to be recognised?
Here, for the first time, climate scientist Peter Stott reveals the bitter fight to get international recognition for what, among scientists, has been...
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"Jean Jouzel, one of the two winners of the Vetlesen Prize of the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation for 2012" Jean Jouzel, Claude Lorius, and Dominique Raynaud are internationally acclaimed scientists who have won many awards for their work documenting long-term climate change through the study of deep ice cores. Jouzel and Raynaud are members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and Lorius was awarded the 2009 Blue Planet Prize.
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Remarkable revelations of nature's diversity, revealed in hundreds of snowflake images taken by American photographer Bentley during a 50-year period. Over 850 illustrations of snow crystals, with no two designs exactly alike, will inspire artists, designers, and craftspeople in search of extraordinary patterns for textiles, wallpaper, and other creative projects.
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The science is in: Global warming is for real. But what does it all really mean, and what can or should we do about it? This clear, fluid narrative by a leading scientist and educator takes a scrupulously balanced approach in explaining for the reader the history of global climate monitoring and change, and the who's, how's, what's, when's, where's and why's of the interaction between human activity and recent trends in the Earth's climate.
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El cambio climático es el problema científico más importante de nuestro tiempo, catalizador de un profundo cambio social basado en nuestra percepción del mismo. Mientras que muchos libros explican lo que ya sabemos sobre el cambio climático, este libro explora lo que admitimos que no entendemos sobre él (las incógnitas conocidas). Al hacerlo, revela un mecanismo del cambio climático que hasta ahora se había pasado por alto, que opera en segundo...
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As global climate change proliferates, so too do the health risks associated with the changing world around us. Called for in the President's Climate Action Plan and put together by experts from eight different Federal agencies, The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health: A Scientific Assessment is a comprehensive report on these evolving health risks, including:
Temperature-related death and illness
Air quality deterioration
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Le titre de cette étude aurait dû être : « Du magnétisme en général et du magnétisme de la terre en particulier »; mais on a désigné aussi par le nom de magnétisme un ensemble de phénomènes physiologiques bien plus connus des gens du monde que le magnétisme proprement dit, qui est du ressort de la physique et de la météorologie. Or il ne s'agira ici que des propriétés physiques et de la théorie de l'aimant, enfin, de la terre considérée...
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Sur le plan scientifique, la géothermie s'attache à l'étude du régime thermique du globe et aux mécanismes de transfert thermique — conductifs et convectifs. Elle tente d'intégrer l'ensemble des données géologiques, géochimiques et géophysiques dans des modèles satisfaisants. Abstraction faite ...
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