Skip to main content
Elsevier
View Cart
Your Account

Books in Meteorology

BooksJournals

Climate Change and Rainfall Extremes in Africa

  • 1st Edition
  • May 1, 2025
  • Victor Ongoma
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 8 8 6 7 - 8
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 8 8 6 8 - 5
Climate Change and Rainfall Extremes in Africa: Occurrence, Impacts and Adaptation provides the latest developments on extreme rainfall in Africa, along with an analysis of current impacts, future implications, and community adaptations. The book's chapters are organized into three parts: 1) Understanding Rainfall Extremes, 2) Regional Rainfall and Hydrological Extremes, and 3) Prediction, Impacts, and Adaptation to Rainfall Extremes. Specific sections examine rainfall variability in Africa (and across the world), how climate change has contributed to the increasing severity of events, focus on different regions and various meteorological extremes, including tropical cyclones, drought, flooding, rising water levels, and changes in rainfall concentration.Final sections look ahead to the future of forecasting rainfall, economic implications, damage assessment, adaptation, community resilience, and risk reduction measures. This timely resource will deepen readers' understanding of how climate change and extreme rainfall in Africa (and elsewhere) are impacting communities and what can be done to mitigate the effects.

South Asian Summer Monsoon

  • 1st Edition
  • February 1, 2025
  • Madhavan Nair Rajeevan + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 9 4 5 - 8
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 3 9 4 4 - 1
South Asian Summer Monsoon: Processes, Prediction, and Societal Impacts provides a stronger understanding of the monsoon environment and new information on the structure and dynamics of monsoon weather systems, onset and withdrawal processes, South Asian monsoon variability at all time scales, from Diurnal to multi-decadal, and human influence on the changing monsoon climate. Readers will also find updates on the present status and capability of short-to-medium range, extended-range, and seasonal monsoon prediction methods. Finally, the book's authors discuss the role of monsoon forecasts for sectoral applications in agriculture, water resources, drought and flood management, disaster management, public health, and energy.

Multi-Scale Precipitation Variability Over the Tropics

  • 1st Edition
  • January 1, 2025
  • Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 4 0 3 0 - 3
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 4 0 3 1 - 0
Multi-Scale Precipitation Variability Over the Tropics: New Insights from Observations and Modelling explores the latest developments in the observation and modelling of tropical precipitation. Researchers will benefit from this detailed analysis of recent advancements in the field. The text first examines recent satellite and RADAR observations and how those breakthroughs enhance our understanding. This is followed by a review of NASA A-train observations as well as extreme events. The editors also look at predicting precipitation variability with a state-of-the-art ensemble forecast system. The text wraps with a discussion of multiscale cloud and precipitation variability with the backdrop of a changing climate.This text will provide researchers with new insights and a deeper understanding of the latest advances in the observation and modelling of tropical precipitation.

Extreme Weather Forecasting

  • 1st Edition
  • October 11, 2022
  • Marina Astitha + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 1 2 4 - 4
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 2 4 3 - 2
Extreme Weather Forecasting reviews current knowledge about extreme weather events, including key elements and less well-known variables to accurately forecast them. The book covers multiple temporal scales as well as components of current weather forecasting systems. Sections cover case studies on successful forecasting as well as the impacts of extreme weather predictability, presenting a comprehensive and model agnostic review of best practices for atmospheric scientists and others who utilize extreme weather forecasts.

Conceptual Boundary Layer Meteorology

  • 1st Edition
  • August 27, 2022
  • April L. Hiscox
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 7 0 9 2 - 2
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 7 0 9 3 - 9
Conceptual Boundary Layer Meteorology: The Air Near Here explains essential boundary layer concepts in a way that is accessible to a wide number of people studying and working in the environmental sciences. It begins with chapters designed to present the language of the boundary layer and the key concepts of mass, momentum exchanges, and the role of turbulence. The book then moves to focusing on specific environments, uses, and problems facing science with respect to the boundary layer.

The Urban Heat Island

  • 1st Edition
  • May 24, 2021
  • Iain D. Stewart + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 0 1 7 - 7
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 5 6 9 0 - 2
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) is an area of growing interest for many people studying the urban environment and local/global climate change. The UHI has been scientifically studied for 200 years and, although it is an apparently simple phenomenon, there is considerable confusion around the different types of UHI and their assessment. The Urban Heat Island—A Guidebook provides simple instructions for measuring and analysing the phenomenon, as well as greater context for defining the UHI and the impacts it can have. Readers will be empowered to work within a set of guidelines that enable direct comparison of UHI effects across diverse settings, while informing a wide range of climate mitigation and adaptation programs to modify human behaviour and the built form. This opens the door to true global assessments of local climate change in cities. Urban planning and design strategies can then be evaluated for their effectiveness at mitigating these changes.

Drought Early Warning and Forecasting

  • 1st Edition
  • June 3, 2020
  • Chris Funk + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 4 0 1 1 - 6
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 4 0 1 2 - 3
Drought risk management involves three pillars: drought early warning, drought vulnerability and risk assessment, and drought preparedness, mitigation, and response. This book collects in one place a description of all the key components of the first pillar, and describes strategies for fitting these pieces together. The best modern drought early warning systems incorporate and integrate a broad array of environmental information sources: weather station observations, satellite imagery, land surface and crop model simulations, and weather and climate model forecasts, and analyze this information in context-relevant ways that take into account exposure and vulnerability. Drought Early Warning and Forecasting: Theory and Practice assembles a comprehensive overview of these components, providing examples drawn from the Famine Early Warning Systems Network and the United States Drought Monitor. This book simultaneously addresses the physical, social, and information management aspects of drought early warning, and informs readers about the tools, techniques, and conceptual models required to effectively identify, predict, and communicate potential drought-related disasters. This book is a key text for postgraduate scientists and graduate and advanced undergraduate students in hydrology, geography, earth sciences, meteorology, climatology, and environmental sciences programs. Professionals dealing with disaster management and drought forecasting will also find this book beneficial to their work.

Weather Analysis and Forecasting

  • 2nd Edition
  • June 15, 2016
  • Christo Georgiev + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 0 1 9 4 - 3
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 0 4 9 5 - 1
Weather Analysis and Forecasting: Applying Satellite Water Vapor Imagery and Potential Vorticity Analysis, Second Edition, is a step-by-step essential training manual for forecasters in meteorological services worldwide, and a valuable text for graduate students in atmospheric physics and satellite meteorology. In this practical guide, P. Santurette, C.G. Georgiev, and K. Maynard show how to interpret water vapor patterns in terms of dynamical processes in the atmosphere and their relation to diagnostics available from numerical weather prediction models. In particular, they concentrate on the close relationship between satellite imagery and the potential vorticity fields in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. These applications are illustrated with color images based on real meteorological situations over mid-latitudes, subtropical and tropical areas.

Weather and Climate on Planets

  • 1st Edition
  • October 22, 2013
  • K Y Kondratyev + 1 more
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 5 0 7 9 - 6
Weather and Climate on Planets discusses the problems of the meteorology of planets. Planetary meteorology is the study of the regularities of the atmospheres and their thermal regime and dynamics, specifically the properties of the planetary surfaces and the specific features of the interactions between the atmospheres and surfaces. This book contains four chapters and begins with an overview of origin and evolution of the solar system and planetary atmospheres. The introductory chapter describes some basic characteristics of planetary atmospheres, laboratory and numerical modeling of the atmospheric circulation, and the application of remote sounding. The remaining three chapters examine the weather, climate, and other meteorological aspects of planet Venus, Mars, and Jupiter. This book will be of value to meteorologists, astronomers, researchers, and students.

Storm and Cloud Dynamics

  • 1st Edition
  • October 22, 2013
  • William R. Cotton + 1 more
  • Renata Dmowska
  • English
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 2 - 8 8 3 8 - 3
This book focuses on the dynamics of clouds and of precipitating mesoscale meteorological systems. Clouds and precipitating mesoscale systems represent some of the most important and scientifically exciting weather systems in the world. These are the systems that produce torrential rains, severe winds including downburst and tornadoes, hail, thunder and lightning, and major snow storms. Forecasting such storms represents a major challenge since they are too small to be adequately resolved by conventional observing networks and numerical prediction models.