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Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather (2 ed.)

Edited by Stephen H. Schneider, Terry L. Root, Michael D. Mastrandrea

For most of history, humans have made every possible effort to accurately foretell the weather, evolving from the use of guesswork, rule of thumb, and signs in the sky to the development of contemporary forecasting techniques drawn from two scientific disciplines, climatology and meteorology.

Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather, Second Edition summarizes this knowledge and presents it in a compendium of over 330 entries that cover:

Each entry features numerous cross references and definitions of weather and climate-related terms as well as additional sources for further study. Over 250 photographs, maps, and charts offer highly evocative depictions of various weather and climate conditions.

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Print Publication Date:
2011
Print ISBN-13:
9780199765324
Published to Oxford Reference:
2011
Current Online Version:
2011
eISBN:
9780195313864

Authors

Stephen H. Schneider, editor

Terry L. Root, editor

Michael D. Mastrandrea, editor

Stephen H. Schneider was the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Professor of Biological Sciences, Professor (by courtesy) of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and a Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. Dr. Schneider received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Plasma Physics from Columbia University in 1971. He studied the role of greenhouse gases and suspended particulate material on climate as a postdoctoral fellow at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in 1972 and was a member of the scientific staff of NCAR from 1973-1996, where he co-founded the Climate Project.

Terry L. Root is a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, and Professor (by courtesy) in the department of Biology, at Stanford University. Dr. Root received her Ph.D. in Biology from Princeton University in 1987. Dr. Root’s work has been published in several journals as well as in the books Wildlife Responses to Climate Change: North American Case Studies and Atlas of Wintering North American Birds: An Analysis of Christmas Bird Count Data. Dr. Root was part of the Collective IPCC Nobel Peace Prize for contributions to the Third and Fourth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007.

Michael D. Mastrandrea (Associate Editor in Chief) Stanford University, Woods Institute for the Environment, is a Lecturer in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER). His research focuses on the physical, biological, and societal impacts of climate change, policy strategies for reducing climate risks, and their accurate and effective translation for the general public, policy makers, and the business community. Dr. Mastrandrea’s work has been published in several journals, including Science Magazine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He also serves on the Editorial Board for the journal Climatic Change, is co-editor of the book Climate Change Science and Policy, and co-author of the book Preparing for Climate Change.

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