Waters of the world : the story of the scientists who unravelled the mysteries of our seas, glaciers, and atmosphere - and made the planet whole
Dry, Sarah2019
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How is the climate where you are? And how did it get that way? How does the great complex global interaction of ice, ocean, and atmosphere combine to generate the rain that sustains us? And who figured all its secret processes out? From the glaciers of the Alps to the towering cumulonimbus clouds of the Caribbean and the unexpectedly chaotic flows of the North Atlantic, 'Waters of the World' is a tour through 150 years of the history of a significant but underappreciated idea: that the Earth has a global climate system made up of interconnected parts, constantly changing on all scales of both time and space. A prerequisite for the discovery of global warming and climate change, this idea was forged by scientists studying water in its myriad forms. This is their story.
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Imprint:
London : Scribe Publications, 2019.
Collation:
332 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
97819116173349781925713145
Dewey class:
551.509551.5
Language:
English
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BRN:
362693
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Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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Beaumaris Library | Adult Non Fiction - Science and Technology | 551.5 DRY | Available |