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  title info:
    title: Vegetation, water, humans and the climate
    sub title: a new perspective on an interactive system
  name:
    name part: Kabat, P.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxiii, 566 pages) : illustrations, maps.
  abstract: This book presents a state-of-the-art scientific overview of the influence of terrestrial vegetation and soils within the Earth system. It deals especially with interactions between the terrestrial biosphere and the atmosphere via the hydrological cycle and their interlinkage with anthropogenic activities. Measurements gathered in integrated field experiments in the Sahel, the Amazon, North America and South-east Asia confirm the importance of these interactions, but a substantial data consolidation effort still needs to be undertaken. Observations are complemented by modelling studies, including regional models that simulate flows and transport in river catchments, coupled land-cover and regional climate systems, and Earth-system and global circulation models. Water, nutrient and sediment fluxes in river basins are also discussed and are shown to be highly impacted and regulated by humans through land use, pollution and river engineering. Finally, the book discusses environmental vulnerability and methodologies for assessing the risks associated with regional and global climatic and environmental variability and change. The editors emphasise that the results reported in this book are based on the research work of many individual scientists and teams around the world associated with the objectives of the IGBP-BAHC and WCRP-GEWEX international research programmes.
  table of contents: pt. A. Does land surface matter in climate and weather? -- pt. B. How measurable is the earth system? -- pt. C. The value of land-surface data consolidation -- pt. D. The integrity of river and drainage basin systems : challenges from environmental change -- pt. E. How to evaluate vulnerability in changing environmental conditions?
  note: Kabat [and others], (eds.).
  note: Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2004.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Climatology
    topic: Research
  subject:
    topic: Hydrology
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Vegetation and climate
  subject:
    topic: Bioclimatology
  subject:
    topic: Nature
    topic: Effect of human beings on
  subject:
    topic: Bioclimatology
  subject:
    topic: Climatology
    topic: Research
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Hydrology
  subject:
    topic: Nature
    topic: Effect of human beings on
  subject:
    topic: Vegetation and climate
  classification: QC981.5 .V44 2004eb
  classification: 551.6/072
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Vegetation, water, humans and the climate
    origin info:
      publisher: Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2004
    identifier: (DLC) 2004102329
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Global change--the IGBP series
  identifier: 9783642189487 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 3642189482 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 3540424008 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 9783642623738
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
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    record content source: E7B
    record creation date: 040218
    record change date: 20260422172913.3
    record identifier: in00003553354
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng