Desert Meteorology [Paperback]

This comprehensive volume will satisfy all who need to know more about the weather and climate of arid lands.Aridity prevails over more than one-third of the land area of Earth, and over a significant fraction of the oceans. Yet to date there has been no comprehensive reference volume or textbook that deals with the weather processes of desert areas. Desert Meteorology fills this gap by treating all aspects of desert weather. It will satisfy all who need to know more about the weather and climate of arid lands, and will appeal especially to advanced students and researchers in environmental science, meteorology, physical geography, hydrology, and engineering.Aridity prevails over more than one-third of the land area of Earth, and over a significant fraction of the oceans. Yet to date there has been no comprehensive reference volume or textbook that deals with the weather processes of desert areas. Desert Meteorology fills this gap by treating all aspects of desert weather. It will satisfy all who need to know more about the weather and climate of arid lands, and will appeal especially to advanced students and researchers in environmental science, meteorology, physical geography, hydrology, and engineering.Aridity prevails over more than one-third of the land area of Earth, and over a significant fraction of the oceans. Until this book, there has been no comprehensive reference volume or textbook that deals with the weather processes of desert areas. Treating all aspects of desert weather, this text/reference will satisfy all who need to know more about the weather and climate of arid lands, especially advanced students and researchers in environmental science, meteorology, physical geography, hydrology, and engineering.1. Introduction; 2. The atmospheric dynamics of deserts; 3. The climates of the world deserts; 4. Atmospheric and surface energy budgets of deserts; 5. Surface physics of the unvegetated sandy desert landscape; 6. Vegetation effects on desert surfacelƒ+