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Exploring planetary climate : a history of scientific discovery on Earth, Mars, Venus, and Titan / Ralph D. Lorenz (John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory).

By: Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2019]Description: xii, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781108471541
  • 1108471544
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 551.50999/2 23
LOC classification:
  • QB603.A85 L67 2019
Contents:
Foreword / by Ellen R. Stofan, Former NASA Chief Scientist -- Preface -- 1. The age of wonder : learning the earth, oceans and sky : 440 BC to ~1760 -- 2. Planets and greenhouses : 1760 to ~1870 -- 3. The age of numbers : calculation of planetary climates : 1870 to ~1930 -- 4. Feeling the heat : 1920 to 1963 -- 5. First contact : the dawn of planetary exploration : 1960 to 1979 -- 6. Return of the ice : 1975 to 1989 -- 7. Mars attracts : 1990 to 2000 -- 8. A new millennium : 1994 to 2004 -- 9. Dune worlds : 2004 to 2012 -- 10. Looking ahead : 2012 to 2020 -- 11. Worlds beyond : exoplanet climate -- 12. Conclusions.
Awards:
  • ASLI Choice Award
Summary: "This book chronicles the history of climate science and planetary exploration, focusing on our ever-expanding knowledge of Earth's climate, and the parallel research underway on some of our nearest neighbours: Mars, Venus and Titan. From early telescopic observation of clouds and ice caps on planetary bodies in the seventeenth century, to the dawn of the space age and the first robotic planetary explorers, the book presents a comprehensive chronological overview of planetary climate research, right up to the dramatic recent developments in detecting and characterising exoplanets. Meanwhile, the book also documents the discoveries about our own climate on Earth, not only about how it works today, but also how profoundly different it has been in the past. Highly topical and written in an accessible and engaging narrative style, this book provides invaluable historical context for students, researchers, professional scientists, and those with a general interest in planetary climate research."--Back cover.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab QB603 .A85 .L67 2019 1 Available 50583020009357
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Includes bibliography (pages 281-311) and index.

Foreword / by Ellen R. Stofan, Former NASA Chief Scientist -- Preface -- 1. The age of wonder : learning the earth, oceans and sky : 440 BC to ~1760 -- 2. Planets and greenhouses : 1760 to ~1870 -- 3. The age of numbers : calculation of planetary climates : 1870 to ~1930 -- 4. Feeling the heat : 1920 to 1963 -- 5. First contact : the dawn of planetary exploration : 1960 to 1979 -- 6. Return of the ice : 1975 to 1989 -- 7. Mars attracts : 1990 to 2000 -- 8. A new millennium : 1994 to 2004 -- 9. Dune worlds : 2004 to 2012 -- 10. Looking ahead : 2012 to 2020 -- 11. Worlds beyond : exoplanet climate -- 12. Conclusions.

"This book chronicles the history of climate science and planetary exploration, focusing on our ever-expanding knowledge of Earth's climate, and the parallel research underway on some of our nearest neighbours: Mars, Venus and Titan. From early telescopic observation of clouds and ice caps on planetary bodies in the seventeenth century, to the dawn of the space age and the first robotic planetary explorers, the book presents a comprehensive chronological overview of planetary climate research, right up to the dramatic recent developments in detecting and characterising exoplanets. Meanwhile, the book also documents the discoveries about our own climate on Earth, not only about how it works today, but also how profoundly different it has been in the past. Highly topical and written in an accessible and engaging narrative style, this book provides invaluable historical context for students, researchers, professional scientists, and those with a general interest in planetary climate research."--Back cover.

ASLI Choice Award

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