Climate Change in the Himalayas

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Pant, G. B. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Pradeep Kumar, P. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Revadekar, Jayashree V. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Singh, Narendra (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Climate change.; Environmental geography.; Meteorology.; Hydrology.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Climate Change.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Environmental Geography.; Hydrology/Water Resources.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.

This book analyzes the issues associated with climate change in the Himalayas. The purpose of choosing the Himalayas as a focus is because it is a particularly fragile mountain system, highly sensitive to climate change impacts, and it contains one of the largest human populations affected by climat...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Climate and Climate change: An Overview
• 2. The Himalaya
• 3. Weather Systems over Himalaya: Cloud and Precipitation Processes
• 4. Climate models, Projections and Scenarios
• 5. Climate Change: Central Himalayan Perspective
• 6. Central Himalaya: Climate change Signatures
• 7. Climate change impacts: Central Himalaya
• 8. Climate change and Uttarakhand: Policy Perspective.