A wide-ranging look at all aspects of the global climate system
Discusses the relationship and differences between climate and weather
Looks at the origins of our modern climate system, as well ... Read more
The crash of the Indian plate into Asia is the biggest known collision in geological history, and it continues today. The result is the Himalaya and Karakoram - one of the largest mountain ranges on E ... Read more
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This book is an introductory text to a range of numerical methods used today to simulate time-dependent processes in Earth science, physics, engineering, and many other fields. The physical problem of ... Read more
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This book is an introductory text to a range of numerical methods used today to simulate time-dependent processes in Earth science, physics, engineering, and many other fields. The physical problem of ... Read more
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To this day, there is a great amount of controversy about where, when and how the so-called supercontinents--Pangea, Godwana, Rodinia, and Columbia--were made and broken. Continents and Supercontinent ... Read more
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Humans have had a long relationship with the ebb and flow of tides on river deltas around the world. The fertile soils of river deltas provided early human civilizations with a means of farming crops ... Read more
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Explores the extraordinary nature of the desert and its landscape
Written by a scholar with an international reputation in the field
Demonstrates the great variety within deserts, their climate ... Read more
Offers an uncomfortable truth, that the majority of 'natural disasters' are created or exacerbated by human choices
Explores how we can and should act to stop people dying when nature unleashes i ... Read more
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The British have always been obsessed by the weather. Astronomers at Durham Observatory began weather observations in 1841; weather records continue unbroken to this day, one of the longest continuous ... Read more
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Introduces Earth System Science as an important and growing interdisciplinary area of research
Traces how Earth System Science has emerged as a field in its own right since the 1960s alongside co ... Read more
