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Variations in the Global Water Budget

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  • © 1983

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Editors:
  1. Alayne Street-Perrott

    1. School of Geography, University of Oxford, UK

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  2. Max Beran

    1. Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, UK

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  3. Robert Ratcliffe

    1. Royal Meteorological Society, UK

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Table of contents (37 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Techniques of Measurement and Analysis: I. Atmospheric Processes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction to Techniques of Measurement And Analysis: Atmospheric Processes

      • J. T. Houghton
      Pages 2-4

    3. The Atmospheric Branch Of The Hydrological Cycle And Climate

      • José P. Peixóto, Abraham H. Oort
      Pages 5-65

    4. The Atmospheric Water Vapour Budget Over Europe

      • Mikko Alestalo
      Pages 67-79

    5. Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Water Content from Satellites

      • A. K. Gorodetsky, V. I. Syachinov
      Pages 81-87

    6. Comparison of Water Vapour Data from Monex-79 and the Tiros-N Satellite

      • P. N. Pathak
      Pages 89-92

    7. Atmospheric Water Distributions Determined by the Seasat Multichannel Microwave Radiometer

      • P. K. Taylor, T. H. Guymer, K. B. Katsaros, R. G. Lipes
      Pages 93-106

    8. Variations of Deuterium and Oxygen-18 in Continental Precipitation and Groundwater, and Their Causes

      • C. Sonntag, K. O. Münnich, H. Jacob, K. Rozanski
      Pages 107-124

  3. Techniques of Measurement and Analysis: II. Surface Processes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Introduction to Techniques of Measurement and Analysis: Surface Processes

      • M. A. Beran, F. Alayne Street-Perrott
      Pages 126-128

    3. Monthly and Areal Patterns of Mean Global Precipitation

      • L. Jaeger
      Pages 129-140

    4. Comparison of Rainfall Rates Derived from Radar and Nimbus 5 Microwave Observations in the Tropical Atlantic

      • E. Ruprecht, W. Medrow, E. Raschke
      Pages 141-146

    5. Evaporation Models in the Global Water Budget

      • W. J. Shuttleworth
      Pages 147-171

    6. The Use of Long-Term River Level and Discharge Records in the Study of Climatic Variations in the Federal Republic Of Germany

      • H. J. Liebscher
      Pages 173-184

    7. Plant and Soil Water Storage in Arctic And Boreal Forest Ecosystems

      • P. C. Miller
      Pages 185-196

    8. Recent Fluctuations of Alpine Glaciers and Their Meteorological Causes: 1880–1980

      • L. Reynaud
      Pages 197-205

    9. Radiometric Chronology of Some Himalayan Glaciers

      • N. Bhandari, V. N. Nijampukar, C. P. Vohra
      Pages 207-217

  4. Secular Variability: Interactions and Teleconnections

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217
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    2. Introduction to Secular Variability: Interactions and Teleconnections

      • R. A. S. Ratcliffe
      Pages 218-220
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About this book

R.E. Newell President, International Commission on Climate International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics Water is the active ingredient in the global climatic system, its physical properties ensuring that it plays a major role. Its high thermal capacity provides a mechanism for moderating mid­ latitude winter temperatures; solar energy is absorbed by the surface layers of the middle latitude oceans in summer and is released to the atmosphere in winter as the ocean cools. The variation of saturation vapour pressure with temperature is the factor which causes oceanic surface temperatures at low latitudes to be limited by evaporation to values near 29°C, thereby limiting tropical marine air temperatures to about the same value. The substantial amount of energy involved in phase changes - the latent heat - governs the passage of solar energy to the atmo­ sphere; visible solar radiation is absorbed at the Earth's surface, energy is supplied to evaporate water and the latent heat is released to the atmosphere when and where condensation occurs, which is often a considerable distance from the source of the moisture. The infrared radiative characteristics of water vapour, namely the broad vibration-rotation bands typical of a triatomic molecule, permit it to act as the principal agent of energy loss from the atmosphere, throu?,h infrared radiation to space.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Geography, University of Oxford, UK

    Alayne Street-Perrott

  • Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, UK

    Max Beran

  • Royal Meteorological Society, UK

    Robert Ratcliffe

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Variations in the Global Water Budget

  • Editors: Alayne Street-Perrott, Max Beran, Robert Ratcliffe

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6954-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1983

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1364-3Due: 31 May 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-009-6956-8Published: 11 November 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-6954-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 532

  • Topics: Hydrogeology

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