Fire and Rain California’s Changing Weather and Climate /
This book shows how California’s weather and climate have drastically changed and what we can expect in the near future. California’s weather and climate are becoming as common a topic in the media as inflation and wars. It comes into our lives during heat waves when we require more cooling and duri...
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| Format: | Electronisk eBog |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer,
2023.
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| Udgivelse: | 1st ed. 2023. |
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| Online adgang: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32273-0 |
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- Chapter 1. Introduction: The Most Climatically Diverse State in the U.S
- Chapter 2. The Physical Environment: Causes of Regional Climate Types
- Chapter 3. California Sunshine: The Most Sunshine in the U.S
- Chapter 4. Temperatures are Rising (isn’t surprising)
- Chapter 5. Fog: A Menace or Friend?
- Chapter 6. Precipitation: It Does Rain in California
- Chapter 7. Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions: Do El Niños Predict Rainfall?
- Chapter 8. Winds: Sea Breezes and Santa Anas
- Chapter 9. Mid-latitude Cyclones: Pacific Storms Refresh the Parched Land
- Chapter 10. Thunderstorms: Lightning, Hail and Tornadoes, Oh My
- Chapter 11. Climate Change: The Future Ain’t What it Used to Be
- Chapter 12. Air Pollution: Smoggiest Place in the U.S
- Chapter 13. California Agriculture: Leading the Continent in Produce.