Human Impacts on Weather and Climate

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Cambridge University Press, 1. feb. 2007
This 2007 edition of Human Impacts on Weather and Climate examines the scientific and political debates surrounding anthropogenic impacts on the Earth's climate and presents the most recent theories, data and modeling studies. The book discusses the concepts behind deliberate human attempts to modify the weather through cloud seeding, as well as inadvertent modification of weather and climate on the regional scale. The natural variability of weather and climate greatly complicates our ability to determine a clear cause-and-effect relationship to human activity. The authors describe the basic theories and critique them in simple and accessible terms. This fully revised edition will be a valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in atmospheric and environmental science, and will also appeal to policy makers and general readers interested in how humans are affecting the global climate.

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109
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Side 55 - The echo distribution and cloud boundaries are as before. Trajectories 1, 2, and 3 represent the three stages in the growth of large hailstones. The transition from stage 2 to stage 3 corresponds to the reentry of a hailstone embryo into the main updraft prior to a final upand-down trajectory during which the hailstone may grow large, especially if it grows close to the boundary of the vault as in the case of the indicated trajectory 3. Other...

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William Cotton is a Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA).

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