| 书目名称 | Weather and Climate Extremes | | 副标题 | Changes, Variations | | 编辑 | Thomas R. Karl,Neville Nicholls,Anver Ghazi | | 视频video | | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | Are extreme weather events becoming more common? How do extremeweather events impact society? These are critical questions that mustbe examined as we confront the possibility that the world willexperience a change in climate over the next century. Much of theresearch in climatology over the past decade has focused on potentialchanges in long- term averages of temperature, precipitation and otherfactors. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that changes inaverage values will be accompanied by changes in extreme events.Furthermore, extreme weather events will impact society to a greaterextent as people around the world continue to locate in morehazard-prone areas such as coastal zones. This book represents a majorstep forwards in developing a comprehensive set of information aboutchanges in extreme events by providing a review of the problems indata availability, quality and analysis that make deriving a clearpicture of world-wide changes in extreme events so difficult. ..Audience:. The book is intended for policy-makers, professionals,graduate students and others interested in learning how extremeweather events have changed, and how they impact society both now andin the futur | | 出版日期 | Book 1999 | | 关键词 | Climatology; Precipitation; Storm; Weather; climate change; temperature | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9265-9 | | isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-5223-0 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-015-9265-9 | | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1999 |
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