Lightning in the Tropics
From a Source of Fire to a Monitoring System of Climatic Changes
Seiten
2010
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-60741-764-4 (ISBN)
Nova Science Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-1-60741-764-4 (ISBN)
Most lightning on Earth occurs in the tropical region, mainly in the central portion of African Continent, in the Amazon region in South America and in Indonesia. This book aims to review the knowledge about lightning in the tropical region, and indicates how this knowledge can be used to investigate and predict future impacts of global warming.
Most lightning on Earth occurs in the tropical region, mainly in the central portion of the African Continent, in the Amazon region in South America and in Indonesia. Despite this fact, no book about tropical lightning is currently available. There is also no book about the relation between global warming and tropical lightning. Although this relationship is not very well understood at the present time, it has been considered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) community as extremely important in the study of global warming. The reason for this is that lightning can contribute through feedback mechanisms to global warming. The purpose of the present book is to review the current knowledge about lightning in the tropical region, trying to compare observations made at different times and places and with different techniques, and indicate how this knowledge can be used to investigate and predict future impacts of global warming on Earth.
Most lightning on Earth occurs in the tropical region, mainly in the central portion of the African Continent, in the Amazon region in South America and in Indonesia. Despite this fact, no book about tropical lightning is currently available. There is also no book about the relation between global warming and tropical lightning. Although this relationship is not very well understood at the present time, it has been considered by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) community as extremely important in the study of global warming. The reason for this is that lightning can contribute through feedback mechanisms to global warming. The purpose of the present book is to review the current knowledge about lightning in the tropical region, trying to compare observations made at different times and places and with different techniques, and indicate how this knowledge can be used to investigate and predict future impacts of global warming on Earth.
Preface; Introduction; Basic Concepts; Observations by satellites; Observations by lightning location systems; Observations by other techniques; Lightning and global warming; Final remarks; Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 25.3.2010 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 260 x 180 mm |
| Gewicht | 398 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-60741-764-2 / 1607417642 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-60741-764-4 / 9781607417644 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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