Boundary Layer Climates by T. R. Oke
This modern climatology textbook explains those climates formed near the ground in terms of the cycling of energy and mass through systems.
Boundary Layer Climates
Summary
Offers a concise description of atmospheric layers sensitively pitched for the non-meteorological specialist in a variety of disciplines: in geography, agriculture, forestry, ecology, engineering, environment and planning.
Boundary Layer Climates Summary
Boundary Layer Climates Reviews
`A fine text for students wishing to understand the physical processes ocurring near the earth's surface while avoiding the more mathematical approach adopted by many specialized micrometeorological texts.' - Royal Meteorological Society
`Text and diagrams are a model of clarity, logicality and precision, sensitively designed to appeal toall those seeking a basic but comprehensive and scrupulously scientific understanding of the processes in the lower kilometre or so of the atmosphere.' - World Meteorological Organisation
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Dr T R Oke
Table of Contents
Part I Atmospheric systems, CHAPTER 1 ENERGY AND MASS EXCHANGES, CHAPTER 2 PHYSICAL BASIS OF BOUNDARY LAYER CLIMATES, CHAPTER 3 CLIMATES OF SIMPLE NON-VEGETATED SURFACES, CHAPTER 4 CLIMATES OF VEGETATED SURFACES, CHAPTER 5 CLIMATES OF NON-UNIFORM TERRAIN, CHAPTER 6 CLIMATES OF ANIMALS, Part III Man-modified atmospheric environments, CHAPTER 7 INTENTIONALLY MODIFIED CLIMATES, CHAPTER 8 INADVERTENT CLIMATE MODIFICATION, CHAPTER 9 AIR POLLUTION IN THE BOUNDARY LAYER
Additional information
GOR002853769
9780415043199
0415043190
Boundary Layer Climates by T. R. Oke
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
19871217
464
N/A
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