Book Description
A comprehensive and authoritative text on the formation and evolution of planetary atmospheres, for graduate-level students and researchers.
Author : David C. Catling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 41,60 MB
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521844126
A comprehensive and authoritative text on the formation and evolution of planetary atmospheres, for graduate-level students and researchers.
Author : David C. Catling
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 10,95 MB
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 1316824527
As the search for Earth-like exoplanets gathers pace, in order to understand them, we need comprehensive theories for how planetary atmospheres form and evolve. Written by two well-known planetary scientists, this text explains the physical and chemical principles of atmospheric evolution and planetary atmospheres, in the context of how atmospheric composition and climate determine a planet's habitability. The authors survey our current understanding of the atmospheric evolution and climate on Earth, on other rocky planets within our Solar System, and on planets far beyond. Incorporating a rigorous mathematical treatment, they cover the concepts and equations governing a range of topics, including atmospheric chemistry, thermodynamics, radiative transfer, and atmospheric dynamics, and provide an integrated view of planetary atmospheres and their evolution. This interdisciplinary text is an invaluable one-stop resource for graduate-level students and researchers working across the fields of atmospheric science, geochemistry, planetary science, astrobiology, and astronomy.
Author : C. Sagan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 34,14 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401030634
Proceedings of the IAU Symposium No. 40, held in Marfa, Texas, U.S.A., October 26-31, 1969
Author : David C. Catling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 35,64 MB
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 0199586454
Examines the origins of life on Earth and the search for extraterrestrial life, through an understanding of the factors that have allowed life to exist on this planet and the commonalities on others that may enable life elsewhere.
Author : Svante Arrhenius
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 35,1 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Cosmogony
ISBN :
Author : John D. Barrow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521871026
An interdisciplinary book for scientists interested in the origin and existence of life in our universe, first published in 2007.
Author : Wilford Zdunkowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 12,28 MB
Release : 2003-04-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521006668
A graduate-level text book for students in meteorology, containing numerous exercise sets and solutions.
Author : Andrew Ingersoll
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 2013-08-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 1400848237
This concise, sophisticated introduction to planetary climates explains the global physical and chemical processes that determine climate on any planet or major planetary satellite--from Mercury to Neptune and even large moons such as Saturn's Titan. Although the climates of other worlds are extremely diverse, the chemical and physical processes that shape their dynamics are the same. As this book makes clear, the better we can understand how various planetary climates formed and evolved, the better we can understand Earth's climate history and future.
Author : Trond H. Torsvik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 33,92 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Science
ISBN : 1107105323
This book provides a complete Phanerozoic story of palaeogeography, using new and detailed full-colour maps, to link surface and deep-Earth processes.
Author : Jonathan I. Lunine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521644235
This is an outstanding overview of the history of the Earth from a unique planetary perspective for introductory courses in the earth sciences. The book approaches Earth history as an evolution, encompassing the origin of the cosmos through the inner working of living cells. Earth: Evolution of a Habitable Planet tells how the Earth has come to its present state, why it differs from its neighboring planets, what life's place is in Earth's history, and how humanity affects the processes that make our planet livable. Today's human influences are contemplated in the context of natural changes on Earth. This book brings a fresh perspective to the study of the Earth for students who wish to learn how our planet evolved to its present form.