Boeken Meteoroloog

Het Weer - observeren, interpreteren en voorspellen

Blue Machine

All of the Earth's ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight - a blue machine. Earth is home to a huge story that is rarely told - that of our ocean. Not the fish or the dolphins, but the massive ocean engine itself: what it does, why it …

Principles of Planetary Climate

This book introduces the reader to all the basic physical building blocks of climate needed to understand the present and past climate of Earth, the climates of Solar System planets, and the climates of extrasolar planets. These building blocks include thermodynamics, infrared radiative transfer, scattering, surface heat transfer and various processes governing the evolution of …

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Population And Climate Change

Population and Climate Change provides the first systematic in-depth treatment of links between two major themes of the twenty-first century: population growth and associated demographic trends such as aging, and climate change. It is written by a multidisciplinary team of authors from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, who integrate both natural science and …

The Coming Global Superstorm

The dawn of the twenty-first century saw some of the most violent weather on record. Scientific evidence suggests this trend marks the beginning of a climatological nightmare: a massive and unprecedented storm of unimaginable destructive force. Triggered by global warming, the North Atlantic Current -- counter to our own Gulf Stream -- will switch its …

Wetenschappelijke bibliotheek 156 - Het weer

Hoe zijn we aan onze kennis over het weer gekomen? Je komt erachter aan de hand van honderd belangrijke gebeurtenissen, ontdekkingen en uitvindingen. Slecht weer is geen straf van de goden, weten we dankzij de wetenschap. Maar hoe hebben we alle kennis over het weer verzameld? Dit boek neemt ons mee op een intrigerende reis …

The Secret World of Weather

Author of the international bestsellers The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues & Signs and How to Read Water illuminates another subject of perennial interest and importance: the weather.

Global Warming

How much of global warming is due to human activities? How far will it be possible to adapt to changes of climate? Sir John Houghton's definitive, full colour guide to climate change answers these questions and more by providing the best and latest information available, including the latest IPCC findings. The simple, logical flow of …

Voor Dummies - Het weer voor Dummies

Verwonder je je over indrukwekkende weersverschijnselen als donder en bliksem? Vraag je je af hoe deze natuurkrachten tot stand komen? Dit boek geeft je in begrijpelijk Nederlands inzicht in meteorologische begrippen: van jetstream tot tornado en van stratosfeer tot El Niño. Je vindt experimenten en activiteiten die je thuis kunt uitvoeren, en krijgt uitleg over …