The Weather and Climate of Southern Africa - P. D. Tyson, R. A. Preston-Whyte

The Weather and Climate of Southern Africa

Buch | Softcover
408 Seiten
2000 | 2nd Revised edition
Oxford University Press Southern Africa (Verlag)
978-0-19-571806-5 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
This book is the second, fully revised edition of The Atmosphere and Weather of Southern Africa. It provides a thorough, in-depth, and well-illustrated introduction to the meteorology of southern Africa, and includes a new emphasis on climatology.
The Weather and Climate of Southern Africa, the second edition of The Atmosphere and Weather of Southern Africa, further consolidates and expands Tyson and Preston-Whyte's in-depth textbook on the meteorology of southern Africa. It offers an introduction to the structure of the atmosphere, and detailed, well-illustrated discussions on the physics of meteorology, measurement, weather systems, ocean-atmosphere interactions, pollution, climactic change, and forecasting. With a new emphasis on the growing field of climatology, this book is especially pertinent to environmental studies in and on the developing countries of southern Africa, and the relationship of the subcontinent to global weather and climatic changes.

Tyson is at University of the Witwatersrand.

Climatology and the modern science; composition and structure of the atmosphere; pressure, temperature and density relationships; the adiabatic process; moisture and precipitation; the tephigram; atmospheric heat transfer; horizontal motion and winds; vertical motion and cumulus convection; large-scale weather-producing processes and systems; the general circulation of the southern hemisphere; atmospheric circulation and weather over southern Africa; ocean-atmosphere interactions; boundary-layer phenomena; the transport of aerosols and trace gases; climatic change and variability; the prediction of future conditions.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.7.2000
Zusatzinfo numerous halftones and line illustrations
Verlagsort Goodwood
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 240 mm
Gewicht 698 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Meteorologie / Klimatologie
ISBN-10 0-19-571806-2 / 0195718062
ISBN-13 978-0-19-571806-5 / 9780195718065
Zustand Neuware
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