Book Description
Everything you ever wanted to know about Australia's weather, from the sweltering tropical forests of the north to the arid inland deserts.
Author : Richard Whitaker
Publisher : Jacana Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9781741757347
Everything you ever wanted to know about Australia's weather, from the sweltering tropical forests of the north to the arid inland deserts.
Author : Keith Colls
Publisher :
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 23,87 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9781863022873
Author : Keith Colls
Publisher : Reed New Holland
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,97 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9781877069956
Australia has a unique climate. Learn more about it in this third edition of The Australian Weather Book. This book is a colourful overview of Australia's climate and weather, written in an easily accessible way.
Author : Henry Ambrose Hunt
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 2021-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
The author, from his observations as a meteorologist, shares with readers his report regarding types of Australian weather. Many of these appear to be peculiar to Australia, and at the same time connected with Equatorial and other weather. That they throw much new light upon the source of the greater part of Australian rain, and show how these rain storms develop out of ordinary weather conditions is certain; at the same time, they form an important contribution to the study of weather in the Southern Hemisphere generally.
Author : Tim Flannery
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 19,88 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1555846335
The #1 international bestseller on climate change that’s been endorsed by policy makers, scientists, writers, and energy executives around the world. Tim Flannery’s The Weather Makers contributed in bringing the topic of global warming to worldwide prominence. For the first time, a scientist provided an accessible and comprehensive account of the history, current status, and future impact of climate change, writing what has been acclaimed by reviewers everywhere as the definitive book on global warming. With one out of every five living things on this planet committed to extinction by the levels of greenhouse gases that will accumulate in the next few decades, we are reaching a global climatic tipping point. The Weather Makers is both an urgent warning and a call to arms, outlining the history of climate change, how it will unfold over the next century, and what we can do to prevent a cataclysmic future. Originally somewhat of a global warming skeptic, Tim Flannery spent several years researching the topic and offers a connect-the-dots approach for a reading public who has received patchy or misleading information on the subject. Pulling on his expertise as a scientist to discuss climate change from a historical perspective, Flannery also explains how climate change is interconnected across the planet. This edition includes a new afterword by the author. “An authoritative, scientifically accurate book on global warming that sparkles with life, clarity, and intelligence.” —The Washington Post
Author : Henry Ambrose Hunt
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 44,76 MB
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Nature
ISBN :
"The Climate and Weather of Australia" is a book about the atmospheric condition of Australia written by British meteorologist Henry Ambrose Hunt in collaboration with Griffith Taylor and E.T. Quayle. Hunt is noted for his contribution to meteorology in his adopted home of Australia. This textbook encompasses the climate and weather conditions in Australia, ranging from rainfall to humidity, and metrology of other atmospheric parameters.
Author : Ray Wilkie
Publisher :
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Australia
ISBN : 9780731625697
Author : Prudence Black
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 27,31 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742589251
Air hostesses took to the skies in the 1930s, proud and excited to have the most glamorous job in the world, barely looking over their shoulders as they boarded aircraft. Air travel had created a new type of modern workplace - this was a job like no other - filled with adventure, shiny new technology and work that was thrilling, demanding and exhausting. Young women flocked in droves to be measured, weighed and squeezed into snappy uniforms. Smile, Particularly in Bad Weather tells a story about the development of this pioneering profession. It describes the shift from the 1930s, when the girl-next-door took to the air with a great degree of bravado, through to the 1960s and the 'coffee, tea or me?' stereotype where airlines sexualised the air hostess as a point of marketing difference, then on to a crucial period where the air hostess fought back, no longer wanting to be stereotyped nor discriminated against in terms of fair working conditions. This job shaped working women to become something more, it tested their independence, it encouraged self-enhancement and sophistication and it took them to places they hadn't dreamt about.
Author : Andrew P. Sturman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 31,83 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN :
Comprehensively revised and updated in its second edition, The Weather and Climate of Australia and New Zealand provides an introduction to the basic concepts underlying the science of the atmosphere from a Southern Hemisphere perspective, and establishes the global setting within which the weather and climate of Australia and New Zealand operate. Only book with a Southern Hemisphere focus that is suitable for meteorology and climatology students in Australia and New Zealand Incorporates new material published in international literature since the publication of the first edition Caters specifically for students who are just developing an interest in the subject, as well as for those undertaking research that requires a good basic understanding of atmospheric processes and their operation in this region Explains the weather systems responsible for day to day variability experienced across the area, including tropical and mid-latitude phenomena, and approaches to weather forecasting Examines climate change and variability in depth, including a summary of evidence of past climates, as well as discussion of more recent and possible future climate changes Includes an extensive glossary to assist the new reader with terminology specific to meteorology and climatology Contains useful chapter-by-chapter further reading sections
Author :
Publisher : CSIRO
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 15,96 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Carbon dioxide mitigation
ISBN : 0643103260
"This publication provides the latest scientific knowledge on a series of climate change topics relevant to Australia and the world. It draws on peer-reviewed literature contributed to by thousands of researchers ... Climate change is the greatest ecological, economic, and social challenge of our time. Climate change research over many years shows links between human activities and warming of the atmosphere and oceans. This warming has caused changes to the climate system, such as changes in rain and wind patterns, and reductions in Arctic sea ice. Climate change adaptation involves taking action to adapt to climate change and to plan and prepare for the risk of future change. Climate change mitigation refers to actions that aim to limit greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, either by reducing emissions or by increasing the amount of carbon dioxide stored in natural sinks."--Publisher description.