Edited by Stephen H. Schneider, Terry L. Root, and 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:
• The processes that produce our weather
• The circulation of the atmosphere that produces the world's climates
• Classification of climates
• Important scientific concepts used by climatologists and meteorologists
• The history of ideas underlying the atmospheric sciences
• Over 60 new articles on topics such as “Global Warming,” the “Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,” “Tradable Permits,” “Extreme Weather,” “Kyoto Protocol” and more
• Biographical accounts of those who have made significant contributions to climatology and meteorology
• Particular weather events, from extreme tropical cyclones and tornadoes to local winds.
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.
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.
Print edition ISBN: 9780199765324
e-reference edition ISBN: 9780195313864
Print edition publication date: 2011
Copyright: © Oxford University Press 2011
