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© 2010, Paperback, 424 pages |
Adaptive
Governance and Climate Change |
©2009, Paperback, 440 pages |
Eloquent Science: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Better Writer,
Speaker, and Atmospheric Scientist
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by Jack Williams
Former USA Today Weather Page editor Jack Williams has written the most
comprehensive, up-to-date guide to the weather and atmosphere, covering
everything from daily weather patterns to air pollution and global
warming. This book serves as a primer on the science behind the
weather, and shows how integral oceanic and atmospheric science are to
navigating our place in the physical world. It is also the ultimate
reference for anyone working in the fields of meteorology and
climatology.
© 2009, Hardcover, 368 pages
ISBN 13: 978-0-226-89898-8
AMS Order Code: AMSWX
List price: $35 Member price: $25
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by Richard C. J. Somerville
Nearly seven billion people are collectively such a potent force that their influence on the global environment has begun to rival that of Mother Nature. Scientist Richard C. J. Somerville is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, and one of the authors of the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in equal shares to the IPCC and Al Gore for bringing the science behind global change to the world. In The Forgiving Air, Somerville weaves those critical findings into a more accessible story, making the most important issues of our time understandable to all.
"Richard Somerville is one of the world’s top climate scientists. He’s also one of the clearest when it comes to explaining climate science and policy. His book is the ultimate resource for students, educators, and policy makers seeking to understand one of the most critical issues of our times."
— James Gustave Speth, dean of the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and author of The Bridge at the Edge of the World
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© 2008, 224 pages paperback
ISBN 13: 978-1-878220-85-1
List: $22; AMS Member: $16 AMS Order Code: TFA
by James Rodger Fleming
This is the untold story of the remarkable scientist who established the
carbon dioxide theory of climate change. Guy Stewart Callendar discovered
that global warming could be brought about by increases in the concentration
of atmospheric carbon dioxide due to human activities, primarily through
burning fossil fuels. He did this in 1938! Using never-before-published original
scientific correspondence, notebooks, family letters, and photographs, science
historian James Rodger Fleming introduces us to one of Britain’s leading
engineers and explains his life and work through two World Wars to his
continuing legacy as the scientist who established The Callendar Effect.
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AMS has received a SNAP EXCEL Gold Award for this publication. Additional information about the award.
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© 2007, 176 pages hardcover
ISBN 10: 1-878220-76-4; ISBN 13: 978-1-878220-76-9
List: $34.95; Member: $24.95; AMS Order Code: CLDR
Railroads and Weather: From Fogs to
Floods and Heat to Hurricanes, the Impacts of Weather and Climate on American
Railroading Stanley A. Changnon
“Railroads and Weather is a must-read for meteorologists wanting to understand the impact of their products on the rail community...as well as railroad operations personnel, and history buffs who just love trains.”
—Richard A. Wagoner, National Center for Atmospheric Research
This is the first book to cover the impacts of weather on this massive
industry. With 120 photos, this book covers major storms of the last century,
as well as the evolution of the industry’s planning and response strategies,
and the equipment and technology they use to combat weather impacts. This
book promises to be a favorite of meteorologists interested in weather impacts,
as well as railroad and history buffs of all ages.
2006. 136 pages, hardcover; ISBN 10: 1-878220-73-X;
ISBN 13: 978-1-878220-73-8;
AMS Code RLRDS.
List price- $29.95; AMS member price- $24.95
By T. N. Carlson
Mid-Latitude Weather Systems is the first text to make extensive
use of conventional weather charts and equations to fully illustrate the
behavior and evolution of weather patterns. With the use of well-documented
caste studies, Pennsylvania State University Professor of Meteorology Toby
Carlson has achieved a unique presentation of selected concepts, which facilitate
a clear interpretation of this active and challenging area of study. Presenting
a fusion between the mathematical and descriptive fields of meteorology and
integrated coverage of synoptic and dynamic approaches, Mid-Latitude Weather
Systems provides students with an invaluable course text and reference source
to gain an unclouded appreciation of the underlying processes and behavior
of mid-latitude weather patterns.
1998. 507 pages; softcover; ISBN 1-878220-30-6,
AMS Code MLWS.
List price - $52.00; AMS member price - $42.00;
AMS student member price - $32.00
Zbigniew Sorbjan
Hands-on Meteorology presents the subject of atmospheric
science in an exciting, intriguing, and entertaining way. Utilizing a "hands-on"
approach, readers perform simple experiments that demonstrate concepts of
basic meteorology: air pressure, heat, temperature, moisture, and wind. The
experiments use common, everyday, inexpensive materials such as candles,
bottles, cans, and balloons. Hands-on Meteorology also contains meteorological
anecdotes, historical narratives, references to important cultural events,
and biographical sketches of prominent scientists. This book is addressed
to all those who are enthusiastic about learning and teaching about the atmosphere,
weather, and climate and should prove entertaining for readers of all ages.
1996. 306 pages, paperbound; ISBN 1-878220-20-9,
AMS Code HOM.
List price - $26.95; AMS member price - $21.00
Edited by Peter S. Ray
In 1984, the American Meteorological Society, the Cooperative Institute
for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration cosponsored the Intensive Course on Mesoscale Meteorology
and Forecasting, held in Boulder, Colorado. This volume is an edited version
of the lectures, including complete illustrations and extensive bibliographic
references. The 31 chapters consider all aspects of mesoscale meteorology.
After an introduction that discusses mesoscale classifications and typical
forecast problems, the volume is organized in sections on observing techniques
and systems, internally generated circulations, mesoscale convective systems,
externally forced circulations, modeling, and short-range forecasting techniques
and technology. As a textbook of mesoscale meteorology it will serve both
practicing and student meteorologists.
1986. 793 pages, illustrated, hardbound; ISBN
0-933876-66-1, AMS Code MESOMET. List price
- $76.25; AMS Member price - $66.25; Student price - $56.25
David M. Ludlum
From the colonists' first encounter with the American climate to
the launch of the first weather satellite in space, weather has influenced
battles, wars, elections, sports events, balloon launches, airship flights,
and many other history-making events. Want to know what part the weather
played in ending the Siege in Yorktown? Why President Harrison caught his
fatal cold on Inauguration Day? Which was the worst-ever Saturday for football
all across the country? David Ludlum, America's acknowledged dean of weather
history, answers these questions and describes many more historical weather
events and their consequences.
1984. 275 pages,
illustrated, paperbound; ISBN 978-0-933876-98-9, AMS Code WEAFAC.
Price - $30.00
Edited by Melvyn A. Shapiro and Sigbjørn Grønås
This monograph contains expanded versions of the invited papers
presented at the International Symposium on the Life Cycles of Extratropical
Cyclones, held in Bergen, Norway, 27 June–1 July 1994. The symposium coincided
with the 75th anniversary of the introduction of Jack Bjerknes’s frontal-cyclone
model presented in his seminal article “On the Structure of Moving Cyclones.”
The first nine chapters present a historical overview of extratropical cyclone
research and forecasting from the early eighteenth century into the mid-twentieth
century. The succeeding chapters review and present contemporary research
on the theory, observations, analysis, diagnosis, and prediction of extratropical
cyclones. The sequence of presentations transcends the planetary scale to
mesoscale scales of motion. This monograph should be of interest to historians
of meteorology, researchers and forecasters. It contains material appropriate
for teaching courses in advanced undergraduate and graduate meteorology.
The chapter bibliographies provide a valuable source for key references on
many aspects of extratropical cyclones.
1999. 359 pages, hardbound, ISBN 1-878220-35-7,
AMS Code LEC.
List price - $75.00; AMS member price - $55.00
Edited by Ira W. Geer
A glossary of over 3,000 terms on weather and climate for a general
audience. Produced under the Project ATMOSPHERE initiative, the development
of the Glossary of Weather and Climate was inspired by increasing
contemporary interests in the atmosphere and global change and by the absence
of a timely and reasonable comprehensive glossary for the public. The objective
of the glossary is to provide a readily understandable, up-to-date reference
for terms that are frequently used in discussions or descriptions of meteorological
and climatological phenomena. In addition, the glossary includes definitions
of related oceanographic and hydrologic terms.
1996. 272 pages, hard- and paperbound; ISBN
1-878220-19-5, ISBN 1-878220-21-7 (paperbound), AMS Code WCGLOS.
List price - $26.95; AMS member price - $21.00;
hardcover - $34.95
Edited by Kuo-Nan Liou and Zhou Xiuji
A collection of paperbounds presented at the Beijing International
Radiation Symposium. The Symposium provided a forum for scientific exchanges
among scientists in China and abroad in the fields of atmospheric radiation,
remote sensing, and climate applications. The presentations and discussions
at the Symposium focused on the challenges and prospects for atmospheric
radiation in relation to remote sensing, weather prediction and climate studies.
Co-published with Science Press. 1987. 699
pages, hardbound; ISBN 7-03-000208-3/P*34, AMS Code BEIJING.
Price - $60.00
Edited by David Atlas
This fully illustrated volume covers the history of radar meteorology,
deals with the issues in the field from both the operational and the scientific
viewpoint, and looks ahead to future issues and how they will affect the
current atmosphere. With over 200 contributors, the volume is a product of
the entire community and represents an unprecedented compendium of knowledge
in the field.
1990. 806 pages, hardbound; ISBN 0-933876-86-6,
AMS Code RADMET.
List price - $111.00; AMS member price - $91.00;
Student price - $75.00
Edited by J.C. Wyngaard
This illustrated volume contains seven of the nine "cornerstone"
talks featured at the workshop. Emphasis is placed on the means by which
specialists in PBL research may help modelers of more general systems, as
well as how large-scale, general model results help stimulate specialists.
Includes summary of major PBL experiments. 1980. 322
pages, softbound; ISBN 0-933876-51-3, AMS Code WPBL.
List price - $45.00; AMS member price - $35.00
Edited by Akula Venkatram and John C. Wyngaard
This volume is concerned with the physics and the application of
air-pollution modeling on scales up to about 50 km. Its eight chapters, comprising
the diverse points of view of seven authors, remain substantially in their
original, lecture-note form. The result is not a smoothly flowing monograph
but instead a richly textured, lively collection of the seasoned thoughts
and perspectives of experienced researchers and practitioners.
1988. 390 pages, illustrated, hardbound; ISBN
0-933876-67-X, AMS Code APM.
List price - $60.00; AMS Member price - $50.00
Edited by Duane A. Haugen
This publication of the AMS contains all the lectures that were
presented at the AMS Workshop on Meteorology and Environmental Assessment
held in Boston, MA on September 29-October 3, 1975. Topics include: The dispersion
of materials in the atmospheric boundary layer, atmospheric dispersion models
for environmental pollution applications, plume rise predictions, turbulent
diffusion and pollutant transport in shoreline environments, urban diffusion
problems, atmospheric transformations of pollutants, observational systems
and techniques in air pollution meteorology, and federal government requirements
for environmental impact assessment.
1982. 296 pages, illustrated, hardbound; ISBN
0-933876-42-4, AMS Code LAPEIA.
List price - $45.00; AMS member price - $40.00
Edited by Elmar R. Reiter, Zhu Baozhen, and Qian Yongfu
Scientific paperbounds on mountain meteorology, especially as it
affects Asia and China. Topics include: Planetary and large-scale effects
of mountains on general circulation and climate, observational aspects, theoretical
aspects, and numerical modeling, mesoscale effects of mountains on heavy
rainfall and several local storms, observational aspects, and mountain-valley
circulations and their effects on meteorological fields.
Co-published with Science Press (Beijing).
1983. 18-23 May 1982, 699 pages, illustrated, hardbound; ISBN 0-933876-58-0,
AMS Code SINO.
Price - $57.50
Edited by Xu Yigang
In this proceeding there are paperbounds presented by the participants
at a meeting held in Beijing, China, 20-24 March 1984, including those on
the following important aspects relating to mountain meteorology: the field
observation, the dynamic and thermal effects of the mountains on the general
circulation, the results obtained through the numerical models with the large-scale
topography, and the circulation systems on the Plateau.
Co-published with Science Press (Beijing).
1986. 1036 pages, illustrated, hardbound ; ISBN 0-933876-61-0, AMS Code TIBET.
Price - $62.50
Published by For Spacious Skies
Beautiful laminated wall cloud chart, 34" x 25.5". Full-color photographs
of not only all major cloud types but many optical phenomena as well.
Definitions below each photo; forecasting tips as well! Ideal for students,
weather and sky enthusiasts, and in classrooms.
AMS Code SKYWATCH List
price - $13.00
Edited by Thomas D. Potter and Bradley R. Colman
This volume covers a variety of basic topics, including the fundamental
physical forces governing atmospheric motions, turbulence, chaos theory and
predictability, and numerical weather prediction
Published by Wiley-Interscience. 2003. 973 pages, hardbound; ISBN
0-471-21490-6; AMS Code WCWD
Price - $150.00
Edited by Thomas D. Potter and Bradley R. Colman
This volume covers topics that are essential for grasping the scientific
bases of major issues such as global climate change, the ozone hole, acid
rain, floods, droughts, and other natural disasters
Published by Wiley-Interscience. 2003. 966
pages, hardbound; ISBN 0-471-21489-2; AMS Code WCWA
Price - $150.00
Price for set of proceeding two volumes-$275.00
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Key scientific research by authors including Kerry Emanuel, Robert Burpee, Edwin Kessler, and Louis Uccellini illustrates the evolution of the fields of synoptic meteorology, weather analysis, forecasting, and climatology. It is published in honor of the late Fred Sanders, emeritus professor of meteorology at MIT, whose influence was vast: he coined the term “bomb” for explosively intensifying winter storms; he established the roles of low-level horizontal confluence and convergence in frontal collapse; and he invented the field of oceanic mesometeorology. This monograph is both an essential tool for educating future weather researchers and a testament to Sanders’s legacy of teaching. 
The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803–06) systematically recorded weather
and climate data during their 4,162-mile journey. This volume collects
all such data from their various journals, describes the importance of
this first-of-its-kind meteorological undertaking, and includes a color
pictorial of the Lewis and Clark Trail. It will serve as a compelling
resource for weather, history, and Lewis and Clark buffs alike, as well
as for scientists looking back at weather and climate in the early 1800s.
