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Las Unidades Didácticas de Meteorología y Climatología están dirigidas a los estudiantes de Ciencias Ambientales de la UNED. También pueden ser adecuadas para cualquier lector interesado en los fundamentos de la meteorologia y de los procesos que determinan el clima y el cambio climatico. Es un libro introductorio con un enfoque principalmente practico. Sin renunciar al necesario rigor, se ha reducido en lo posible el formalismo matematico para hacer enfasis en el significado fisico de los mecanismos fundamentales que determinan el tiempo atmosferico y el clima. El texto esta profusamente ilustrado y contiene numerosos problemas resueltos, ejercicios y cuestiones.

Si desea conocer esta ciencia más a fondo, aquí encontrará toda la información que necesita: gracias a las explicaciones claras y didácticas del libro, así como a los numerosos esquemas y fotografías, podra comprender los diferentes fenomenos (tormentas, ciclones...) y prever el tiempo a partir de datos cientificos (variacion de la temperatura, cambio de la presion atmosferica, forma y altura de las nubes...). Encontrara tambien informacion muy util para sus excursiones por la montaña o para la navegacion.

The past 100 years are a key period for understanding climate variability and climate change as it marks the changeover from a climate system dominated by natural influences to a climate system dominated by anthropogenic influences. This volume compiles a number of contributions to a workshop held in Gwatt, Switzerland, in July 2006 dealing with different aspects of climate change, variability, and extremes during the past 100 years. The individual contributions cover a broad range of topics, ranging from the re-evaluation of historical marine data to the effect of solar variability on the stratosphere. ''This volume brings together a fascinating and varied set of papers on climatic variability and change. The papers highlight what modelers can learn by greater study of observations, while the latter were informed about the types of observations required to reduce model uncertainties'' - Phil Jones, University of East Anglia. ''The authors of this volume extend the classical reanalysis perspective for studying climate phenomena during the past 100 years!'' - Heinz Wanner, Director, Swiss NCCR Climate.

More than 20 years after the last book on the subject the worldwide precipitation community has produced a comprehensive overview of its activities, achievements, ongoing research and future plans. Measuring Precipitation from Space presents state-of-the-art rainfall estimation algorithms, validation strategies, precipitation modelling, and assimilation in numerical weather prediction models. Clouds and precipitation observations and modelling are addressed for the improvement of the rainfall product quality. Special attention is given to the applications to monitoring and forecasting weather events and to climate monitoring in a frame of growing public interest. No other book can offer to scientists, Ph.D. or equivalent students, professionals in environmental disciplines, and decision makers such a powerful tool to understand the basics of remote sensing for precipitation, to make use of existing products and to have a glimpse of the near future missions and instruments. Other categories of readers will find in the book reference material for their questions on weather and climate applications. The essays are written by the most qualified experts in the field of passive and active remote sensing, cloud and mesoscale modelling, validation and space mission planning. Top academic and research institutions and space agencies have concurred to the first joint effort ever.

The familiar ring around the moon is an example of an atmospheric halo, which is a signature of ice crystals in the air, though the focus here is on odd radius halos. The shape of the ice crystals responsible is only just becoming understood, and is determined by angle x, which has yet to be identified. Tape and Moilanen (their affiliations are not stated), discuss the phenomenon and its possible causes. Some of the material is accessible to lay readers with some scientific background, and some requires college-level mathematics. One of their goals is to encourage the former to notice atmospheric halos--for example different sized ones around the sun--and to marvel at the mystery they present as well as their beauty.

Se nos ha convencido de que el planeta se calienta, pero ¿es realmente así? Luis Campos sostiene que por el contrario estamos en la antesala de una nueva glaciación. Evidente es que los polos ahora se deshielan, que la temperatura del mar es mas elevada originando sequias, desertizacion...Mas esta realidad no hace cierta la teoria facil que vaticina el calentamiento del planeta, a la que se ha apuntado la meteorologia oficial, confundida y de corto alcance.