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Ecology

Environmental Security Concepts, Challenges, and Case Studies

Lanicci John, Murray Elisabeth Hope, Ramsay James D.

ISBN: PB: 9781944970413, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, November 2019
224 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 20 colour plates, 20 halftones, 10 maps

Security threats today are increasingly complex, dynamic, and asymmetric, and can affect environmental factors like energy, water, and food supply. As a result, it is becoming evident that the traditional model of nation-state based security is incom...

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Education

Navigating Tenure and Beyond A Guide for Early Career Faculty

Christopher Sundar A.

ISBN: PB: 9781944970437, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, March 2019
168 pp., 22.8x17.7 cm, 10 line drawings

This guide covers how to reach tenure through service, research, and teaching while empowering your graduate students and maintaining balance between your career and personal life. Sundar A. Christopher uses his own experience and hypothetical situat...

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Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program The First 20 Years

Turner D. D., Ellingson R. G.

ISBN: HB: 9781944970055, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, December 2018
100 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 10 colour plates, 10 halftones, 5 maps

The U. S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program was established in 1990 and is still going strong today. This monograph chronicles the history of the first 20 years of the ARM Program and provides descriptions of its...

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Multiscale Convection-Coupled Systems in the Tropics A Tribute to Dr. Michio Yanai

Tung Wen-wen, Fovell Robert G.

ISBN: HB: 9781944970048, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, December 2018
50 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 10 colour plates, 10 halftones, 5 maps

This monograph was inspired by the life and work of Professor Michio Yanai, a seminal figure and dedicated mentor in tropical meteorology. Conceived initially at the AMS Michio Yanai Symposium as "lessons" organized around the principal research area...

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Earth Sciences

America

Taken by Storm, 1938 A Social and Meteorological History of the Great New England Hurricane

Aviles Lourdes B.

ISBN: PB: 9781944970246, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
384 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 3 maps, 30 halftones

On September 21, 1938, one of the most powerful storms of the twentieth century came unannounced into the lives of New Yorkers and New Englanders, leaving utter devastation in its wake. The Great Hurricane, as it came to be known, changed everything,...

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Earth Sciences

Ice Formation and Evolution in Clouds and Precipitation Measurement and Modeling Challenges

Baumgardner Darrel, McFarquhar Greg M., Heymsfield Andrew J.

ISBN: HB: 9781944970260, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
320 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

Background and Overview Chapter 1. Overview of Ice Nucleating Particles – Zamin A. Kanji, Luis A. Ladino, Heike Wex, Yvonne Boose, Monika Burkert-Kohn, Daniel J. Cziczo, and Martina Krنmer Chapter 2. Cirrus Clouds – Andrew J. Heymsfield, Martina Krنm...

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Biography & Memoires

Earth Sciences

Verner Suomi The Life and Work of the Founder of Satellite Meteorology

Lewis John M.

ISBN: PB: 9781944970222, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 30 line drawings

As the space age got underway in the wake of Sputnik, one of the earliest areas of science to take advantage of the new observational opportunities it afforded was the study of climate and weather. This book tells the story of Finnish-American educat...

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Climate in the Age of Empire Weather Observers in Colonial Canada

Slonosky Victoria C.

ISBN: PB: 9781944970208, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 16 halftones

Though efforts to understand human-caused climate change have intensified in recent decades, weather observers have been paying close attention to changes in climate for centuries. This book offers a close look at that work as it was practiced in Can...

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Midlatitude Synoptic Meteorology: Lab Manual Dynamics, Analysis, and Forecasting

Lackmann Gary, Tyle Kevin R.

ISBN: PB + CD: 9781878220264, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, August 2017
144 pp., 24.2x18.6 cm, 20 line drawings

The past decade has been characterized by remarkable advances in meteorological observation, computing techniques, and data-visualization technology. However, the benefit of these advances can only be fully realized with the introduction of a systema...

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Weather in the Courtroom Memoirs from a Career in Forensic Meteorology

Haggard William H.

ISBN: PB: 9781940033952, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, February 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 12 line drawings, 12 maps

As director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center in the late 1960s and early '70s, William H. Haggard witnessed an explosion in the number of requests from attorneys needing weather data for their cas...

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