Planetary Climates - Brossura

Ingersoll, Andrew P.

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ISBN 10: 0691145059 ISBN 13: 9780691145051

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 2013

Riassunto

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.

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"Prof Andrew Ingersoll has made many important contributions to planetary science through his career, and in Planetary Climates he wields his immense expertise to really get across the weirdness of weather systems on other worlds." --Lewis Dartnell, BBC Sky at Night

"[This] is an ideal introduction for science students and nonspecialist scientists, as well as general readers with a scientific background." --Lunar and Planetary Information Bulletin

"Like all works in the excellent 'Princeton Primers in Climate' series, this book presents content in the main body in a nontechnical manner, with little mathematical detail, but then includes detailed technical/mathematical information in sidebars and boxes so that various levels of more advanced discussion can be individually tailored to a particular group of students." --Choice

L'autore:

Andrew P. Ingersoll, the Earle C. Anthony Professor of Planetary Science at the California Institute of Technology, is an expert on the weather and climate of Earth and the other planets.

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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0691145059
• ISBN 13: 9780691145051
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 278