Vegetation, Water, Humans and the Climate: A New Perspective on an Interactive System (Global Change: The IGBP Series) (Global Change - The IGBP Series)
Contributors: Pavel Kabat (Editor); Martin Claussen (Editor); Paul A. Dirmeyer (Editor); John H.C. Gash (Editor); Lelys Bravo de Guenni (Editor); Michel Meybeck (Editor); Roger Sir Pielke (Editor); Charles J. Vörösmarty (Editor); Ronald W.A. Hutjes (Editor); Sabine Lütkemeier (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: June 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 566
ISBN-13: 9783540424000
Subjects: Climatology; Environmentalist thought & ideology; Research; Earth sciences; Physics; Science; Vegetation and climate; Environmental Science; Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology; Science/Mathematics; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Science / Meteorology; climate; environmental change; integrated terrestrial experiments; terrestrial aquatic systems; vegetation; Hydrology
First sentence: Traditionally, climate has been considered as the mean state of the atmosphere (e.g. Hann 1908), or averaged weather, including its statistical ensemble properties (WMO 1984).