Wang Yeqiao (ed.) Atmosphere and Climate

2nd Edition. — CRC Press, 2020. — 389 p. — (The Handbook of Natural Resources Volume 6). — ISBN13: 978-1138339675.Authored by world-class scientists and scholars, The Handbook of Natural Resources, Second Edition, is an excellent reference for understanding the consequences of changing natural resources to the degradation of ecological integrity and the sustainability of life. Based on the content of the bestselling and CHOICE-awarded Encyclopedia of Natural Resources, this new edition demonstrates the major challenges that the society is facing for the sustainability of all well-being on the planet Earth. The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in studying natural resources are presented in six stand-alone volumes, arranged along the main systems of land, water, and air. It reviews state-of-the-art knowledge, highlights advances made in different areas, and provides guidance for the appropriate use of remote sensing and geospatial data with field-based measurements in the study of natural resources.Volume 6, Atmosphere and Climate, covers atmospheric pollution and the complexity of atmospheric systems and their interactions with human activity. As an excellent reference for fundamental information on air systems, the handbook includes coverage of acid rain and nitrogen deposition, air pollutants, elevated carbon dioxide, atmospheric circulation patterns, and climate change effects on polar regions and climatology. New in this edition are discussions on aerosols monitoring and mapping, greenhouse gases, the Greenland ice sheet, and mountainous regions. This book presents the key processes, methods, and models used in studying the impact of air pollution on ecosystems worldwide.AtmosphereAcid Rain and Nitrogen Deposition
Acid Rain and Precipitation Chemistry
Air Pollutants: Elevated Carbon Dioxide
Albedo
Arctic Oscillation
Asian Monsoon
Atmospheric Acid Deposition
Atmospheric Circulation: General
Circulation Patterns: Atmospheric and Oceanic
Dew Point Temperature
Estimating Arctic Sea-Ice Shortwave Albedo
Fronts
Land–Atmosphere Interactions
Ozone and Ozone Depletion
Transpiration and Physical Evaporation: United States Variability
Water Storage: AtmosphericWeather and ClimateAgroclimatology
Climate: Classification
Climate: Extreme Events
Climate and Climatology
Climatology: Moist Enthalpy and Long-Term Anomaly Trends
Crops and the Atmosphere: Trace Gas Exchanges
Drought: Management
Drought: Precipitation, Evapotranspiration, and Soil Moisture
Drought: Resistance
El Nino, La Nina, and the Southern Oscillation
Meteorology: Tropical
Ocean–Atmosphere Interactions
Oceans: Observation and Prediction
Tropical Cyclones
Urban Heat Islands
Wind Speed Probability DistributionClimate ChangeClimate Change
Climate Change: Boreal Forests
Climate Change: Coastal Marine Ecosystems
Climate Change: Polar Regions
Climate Change: Effects on Habitat Suitability of Tree of Heaven along the Appalachian Trail
Climate Change: Ecosystem Dynamics along the Appalachian Trail
Spatial and Temporal Variations in Global Land Surface Phenology
Spatiotemporal Variations in Precipitation and Temperature over Northeastern Eurasia, 1961–2010