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Desert Meteorology.
Aridity prevails over more than one third of the land area of the Earth and over a significant fraction of the oceans as well. Yet to date there has been no comprehensive reference volume or textbook dealing with the weather processes that define the character of desert areas. Desert Meteorology fil...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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West Nyack :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Aridity prevails over more than one third of the land area of the Earth and over a significant fraction of the oceans as well. Yet to date there has been no comprehensive reference volume or textbook dealing with the weather processes that define the character of desert areas. Desert Meteorology fills this gap by treating all aspects of desert weather, such as large-scale and local-scale causes of aridity; precipitation characteristics in deserts; dust storms; floods; climate change in deserts; precipitation processes; desertification; land-surface physics of deserts; numerical modelling of de. |
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| Notas: | The effect of mineral aerosols on the desert radiation budget. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (621 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 549-586) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511186325 0511186320 1280457856 9781280457852 9786610457854 6610457859 0511185456 9780511185458 0511187254 9780511187254 0511535783 9780511535789 |