Waters of the world : the story of the scientists who unraveled the mysteries of our oceans, atmosphere, and ice sheets and made the planet whole /
Dry, Sarah
Waters of the world : the story of the scientists who unraveled the mysteries of our oceans, atmosphere, and ice sheets and made the planet whole / Sarah Dry - Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, c2021 - 332 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Hot Ice -- 3. See-Through Clouds -- 4. Number of the Monsoon -- 5. Hot Towers -- 6. Fast Water -- 7. Old Ice -- 8. Conclusion.
From the glaciers of the Alps to the towering cumulonimbus clouds of the Caribbean and the unexpectedly chaotic flows of the North Atlantic, Waters of the World is a tour through 150 years of the history of a significant but underappreciated idea: that the Earth has a global climate system made up of interconnected parts, constantly changing on all scales of both time and space. A prerequisite for the discovery of global warming and climate change, this idea was forged by scientists studying water in its myriad forms.
9780226816845
HYDROLOGY
GB 659.6 .D79 2019
Waters of the world : the story of the scientists who unraveled the mysteries of our oceans, atmosphere, and ice sheets and made the planet whole / Sarah Dry - Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, c2021 - 332 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Hot Ice -- 3. See-Through Clouds -- 4. Number of the Monsoon -- 5. Hot Towers -- 6. Fast Water -- 7. Old Ice -- 8. Conclusion.
From the glaciers of the Alps to the towering cumulonimbus clouds of the Caribbean and the unexpectedly chaotic flows of the North Atlantic, Waters of the World is a tour through 150 years of the history of a significant but underappreciated idea: that the Earth has a global climate system made up of interconnected parts, constantly changing on all scales of both time and space. A prerequisite for the discovery of global warming and climate change, this idea was forged by scientists studying water in its myriad forms.
9780226816845
HYDROLOGY
GB 659.6 .D79 2019