climatology

Discusses how global climate change touches the native people of the Alaskan arctic in normal, everyday situations.

Explains fundamental concepts of atmospheric science and explores their practical applications. Discusses the effect of weather and climate on societal activities.

Uses a study of climates around the world as the basis for understanding the math concepts of mean, median, and model.

Describes the forces that create seasons, and the changes that affect both air and water on a global scale.

Looks at how human activities have affected Earth's environment over the course of the twentieth century, discussing climate, global warming, deforestation, endangered species, environmental pollution, and other topics, and explores the need to establish new policies and practices for interacting with and using natural resources.

A color-illustrated overview of weather and climate that covers the way weather works; the effects of weather, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and lightning; world climates; and climate changes.

Discusses how world climate varies over a period of time and the effect major changes could have on the Earth's population.

Features a glossary of over 2,200 words and terms related to weather and climate; contains biographies of more than one hundred people who have contributed to the understanding of weather and climate; and includes a chronology of events in the history ofweather and climate, and a selection of key charts and tables.

From an ice age that gave humans an evolutionary leg up to an El Ni?o that frustrated Hitler's battle plans, an exploration of climate shifts of the past shows that the weather is often a critical player in important events.