１０年単位の気候変動：社会的影響と予測可能性 Natural Decadal Climate Variability : Societal Impacts (Drought and Water Crises)

Mehta, Vikram M.

CRC Press Inc（2017/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 316 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781466554528
• DDC分類 551.6

Full Description

Natural Decadal Climate Variability: Societal Impacts is an important work for understanding the natural decadal climate variability (DCV), a phenomenon which has made long lasting impacts on civilizations, especially on water availability and agriculture. This book comprehensively covers multiyear to decadal variations in instrument measured precipitation and temperature, water availability and river flows, crop production, agricultural irrigation, inland water-borne transportation, hydroelectricity generation, and fish and crustacean captures since the 1960s. A longer term perspective is provided with the use of multi-century data on dry and wet epochs based on tree ring information, and corroborating evidence from other literature. This valuable work will benefit climate scientists, meteorologists, hydrologists, agronomists, water transportation planners, resource economists, policymakers, professors, and graduate students and anyone else who has an interest in learning how natural climate phenomena has influenced societies for at least the past 1000 years.

Contents

Foreword. About the Author. Prologue. Introduction to Decadal Climate Variability Phenomena. Ancient Observers Riding Decadal Hydrologic Cycles. Modern Observers Riding Decadal Hydrologic Cycles. River Flow and Its Impacts. Land's Bounty. Oceans' Bounty. Epilogue. List of Abbreviations. Glossary of Terms. References.