Lamb H.H. Climate: Present, Past and Future. Volume 1. Fundamentals and Climate Now

Taylor&Francis, 2012. — 645 p. — ISBN: 0415682223.First published in 1972, this first volume of Professor Lamb ’ s study of our changing climate deals with the fundamentals of climate and climatology, as well as providing global data on the contemporary climates of the twentieth century.FundamentalsConcepts and definitions: the weather, the atmosphere and the sun
Radiation and the Earth's heat supply
The atmosphere in motion
Seasonal changes
The stratosphere
Cyclic and quasi-periodic phenomena
Anomalous patterns of atmospheric circulation, weather and climate
The oceans
The water cycle
Some observed causes of climatic variationSupplementary tables
The production and decay of radioactive carbon in the atmosphere
Orbit data
Departures from the long-term average of monthly mean pressure at sea level associated with different phases of the sunspot cycleClimate nowObservational reference data and classification of climatesWorld maps
World-wide classification of climates
World climatic table