Droughts
By: Michael Allaby.
Series: Dangerous weather
Publisher: Facts On File
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9780816035199
Subjects: Droughts
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: What is a drought? 1; title: WHEN THE RAINS FAIL 3; title: Air movements in the tropics and subtropics 3; title: George Hadley and Hadley cells 8; title: Subtropical deserts 10; title: Adiabatic warming and cooling 12; title: Desert life 14; title: Polar deserts 20; title: Precipitation, evaporation, sublimation, and ablation 24; title: Evaporation, condensation, and theformation of clouds 28; title: Ocean currents and sea-surface temperature 31; title: The Coriolis effect 32; title: El Nino and La Nfia 36; title: Jet streams and storm tracks 43; title: Blocking highs 47; title: Vorticity and angular momentum 48.