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Owen-Rhea-Meteorological-Library May 2014 Owen Rhea’s Meteorological Library 1 John Owen Rhea’s Meteorological Library Inventory Contact Rosemary Rhea: 530-823-0549 [email protected] Topic Directory: General Meteorology 2 Climatology 5 Forecasting and Analysis 9 General Circulation and Fluid Dynamics 12 Tropical Meteorology 17 Air Pollution and Dispersion 19 Mesoscale Modeling 20 Cloud Physics and Convection Modeling 24 Remote Sensing, Instrumentation and Measurement 28 Mountain Meteorology 33 Snow & Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting 35 Hydrology and Snow Hydrology 37 Water Management 41 Weather Modification 44 Colorado Weather Modification 48 Utah Weather Modification 50 California Weather Modification 50 AMS Journals 64 Papers written by Owen Rhea 65 May 2014 Owen Rhea’s Meteorological Library 2 General Meteorology THE ATMOSPHERE - A CHALLENGE The Science of Jute Gregory Charney Richard S. Lindzen, Edward N. Lorenz, George W. Platzman American Meteorological Society Boston, Massachusetts Copyright 1990 by the American Meteorological Society ISBN l-R7R220-03-9 Library of Congress catalog card number 90-81190 PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOREST-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTION WORKSHOP Lake Placid, New York October 1-4, 1985 Published: May 1987 Coordinated and Edited by Harry Moses, Volker A. Mohnen, William E. Reifsnyder, and David H. Slade Workshop cosponsored by: U.S. Department of Energy State University of New York - Albany Yale University UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Office of Energy Research Office of Health and Environmental Research Washington, D.C. 20545, New York, Toronto, London Historical Essays on Meteorology 1919-1995 The Diamond Anniversary History Volume of the American Meteorological Society Edited by James Rodger Fleming American Meteorological Society 1996 ISBN 1-878220-17-9 Paper) May 2014 Owen Rhea’s Meteorological Library 3 WEATHER AND LIFE An Introduction to Biometeorology William P. Lowry COPYRIGHT © 1967, BY WILLIAM PRESCOTT LOWRY Copyright CD 1969, BY ACADEMIC PRESS, INC. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER: 69-18334 Second Printing, 1970, BY California Natural History Guides: The Department of Atmospheric Science at CSU a 20 Year Perspective 1982 By Faculty Members Techniques for Observing the Weather B.C. Haynes John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Copyright 1947 GENERAL METEOROLOGY PUBLISHED FORMERLY UNDER THE TITLE SYNOPTIC AND AERONAUTICAL METEOROLOGY HORACE ROBERT BYERS, Sc.D. Professor of Meteorology. The University of Chicago McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC. NEW YORK AND LONDON 1944 RAGING FORCES Earth in Upheaval Leslie Allen, Thomas Y. Canby, Ron Fisher, Noel Grove, Tom Melham The National Geographic Society May 2014 Owen Rhea’s Meteorological Library 4 Copyright © 1995 ATMOSPHERE U.S. STANDARD SUPPLEMENTS, 1966 Prepared under sponsorship of ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE SERVICES ADMINISTRATION NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION UNITED STATES AIR FORCE UNDERSTANDING OUR ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT Morris Neiburger (University of California, Los Angeles), James G. Edinger (University of California, Los Angeles) William D. Bonner (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) W. H. FREEMAN AND COMPANY 1971 ISBN 0-7167-0257-6 The Atmosphere Richard A. Anthes, Hans A. Panofsky, John .J. Cahir (Meteorology Department The Pennsylvania State University) And Albert Rango (National Aeronautics and Space Administration/ Goddard Space Flight Center) Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, A Bell & Howell Company Copyright ©, 1975, by Bell & Howell Company All rights reserved. International Standard Book Number 0-675-08698-1 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 75-3539 Introduction to THEORETICAL METEOROLOGY SEYMOUR L. HESS, Florida State University HOLT, RINEHART And WINSTON, NEW YORK Copyright © 1959 by Seymour L. Hess May 2014 Owen Rhea’s Meteorological Library 5 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 59-9 I 18 ISBN: 03- 005745-0 Climatology Climate and Weather Hermann Flohn Translated from the German by B.V. deG.Walden World University Library McGraw-Hill Book Company New York Toronto © Hermann Flohn 1969 Translation © George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Limited 1969 Reprinted 1973 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 67.22971 Monthly Station Normals of Temperature, Precipitation, and Heating and Cooling Degree Days 1961-90 CALIFORNIA James R. Owenby and D.S. Ezell January 1992 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Climatic Data Center 10th conference on Applied Climatology Sponsored by AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY 45 BEACON STREET, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETS, USA 02108-3693 CLIMATOLOGY BERNARD HAURWITZ, Ph. D. JAMES M. AUSTIN, Ph., D. FIRST EDITION May 2014 Owen Rhea’s Meteorological Library 6 McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC. NEW YORK AND LONDON 1944 Instructor's Manual for PRINCIPLES OF CLIMATOLOGY A MANUAL IN EARTH SCIENCE HANS NEUBERGER JOHN CAHIR The Pennsylvania State University HOLT, RINEHART AND WINSTON, INC. New York Chicago San Francisco Atlanta Dallas Montreal Toronto London Sydney Copyright ® 1970 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston ISBN: 03-084744-3 CLIMATES AND WEATHER EXPLAINED Edward Linacre and Bart Geerts First published 1997 by Routledge, 1 1 New Ferrer Lane, London Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge, New York © 1997 Edward Linacre and Hart Geerts British Library Cataloging in Publication Data Climates and weather explained: an introduction from a southern perspective Edward Linacre and Bart Geerts. 1997 ISBN 0-415-12519-7 ISBN 0-415-12520-0 DYNAMICS OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATE Richard S. Scorer, Emeritus Professor and Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Mathematics and Environmental Technology, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London May 2014 Owen Rhea’s Meteorological Library 7 JOHN WILEY & SONS, Published in association with PRAXIS PUBLISHING Chichester COPYRIGHT 1997- Praxis Publishing Ltd Based on Environmental/ Aerodynamics first published in 1978. This book published in 1997 by John Wiley & Sons Ltd in association with Praxis Publishing Ltd ISBN 0-471-96815-3 Cloth ISBN 0-471-96816-1 Paperback PHYSICS OF CLIMATE Jose P. Peixoto Professor of Physics, Geophysical Institute University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal Abraham H. Oort Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/NOAA U.S. Department of Commerce Princeton, New Jersey 08542 Foreword by Edward N. Lorenz, Professor Emeritus of Meteorology MIT American Institute of Physics, .second printing, 1992 © 1992 American Institute of Physics Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Peixoto, Jose Pinto Physics of Climate / Jose P. Peixoto, Abraham H. Oort. ISBN 0-88318-711-6 (case). - ISBN 0-88318-712-4 (perfect) I. Climatology, 2. Dynamic meteorology. 3. Atmospheric physics. 1. Oort, Abraham H. II. Title. QC981.P434 1991 551.5-dc20 PHYSICAL CLIMATOLOGY WILLIAM D. SELLERS THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS / CHICAGO & LONDON ISBN: 0-226-74699-2 Library of Congress Catalog Cord Number: 65-24983 © 1965 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved Published 1965. Fourth Impression 1972 May 2014 Owen Rhea’s Meteorological Library 8 CLIMATOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED STATES NO. 20 CLIMATIC SUMMARIES FOR SELECTED SITES, 1951-80 CALIFORNIA CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY DEGRE~· DAYS PRECIPITATION PROBABILITY FREEZE DATA GROWING DEGREE UNITS NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER ASHEVILLE, N.C. NOAA, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION / NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE DATA, AND INFORMATION SERVICE/ NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER, ASHEVILLE, N.C. CLIMATOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED STATES NO. 20 CLIMATIC SUMMARIES FOR SELECTED SITES, 1951-80 OREGON CLIMATOLOGICAL SUMMARY DEGRE~· DAYS PRECIPITATION PROBABILITY FREEZE DATA GROWING DEGREE UNITS NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER ASHEVILLE, N.C. NOAA, NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION / NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE DATA, AND INFORMATION SERVICE/ NATIONAL CLIMATIC DATA CENTER, ASHEVILLE, N.C. Climatic Summaries for Military Weather Stations Department of Water Resources January 1978 CLIMATOLOGY OF INVERSIONS Atmospheric Science Paper No. 238 THESIS submitted By George J. Schewe May 2014 Owen Rhea’s Meteorological Library 9 In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado Fall, 1975 CLIMATE AND AGRICULTURE An Ecological Survey JEN-HU CHANG UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII ALDINE PUBLISHING COMPANY / CHICAGO Copyright @ 1968 by Jen-hu Chang First published 196~ by Aldine Publishing Company 529 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago Second Printing 1971 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 67-273R9 Designed by Bernard Schleifer Forecasting and Analysis FIRE WEATHER ••• A GUIDE FOR APPLICATION OF METEOROLOGICAL INFORMATION TO FOREST FIRE CONTROL OPERATIONS Mark J. Schroeder, Weather Bureau, Environmental Science Services Administration U.S. Department of Commerce And Charles C. Buck, Forest Service. U.S. Department of Agriculture MAY 1970 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. FOREST SERVICE I AGRICULTURE HANDBOOK 360 RESEARCH MEMORANDUM METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH COMMERCIAL AERONAUTICS May 2014 Owen Rhea’s Meteorological Library 10 By a Working Group of the NACA Subcommittee on Meteorological Problems NACA Headquarters NATIONAL -ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS WASHINGTON June 21, 1955 CONFERENCE ON WEATHER FORECASTING AND ANALYSIS AND AVIATION METEOROLOGY Sponsored by the AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY and the NATIONAL WEATHER ASSOCIATION OCTOBER 16-19, 1978 SILVER SPRING, MD. Copyright © 1978, American Meteorological Society. EIGHTH CONFERENCE ON WEATHER FORECASTING AND ANALYSIS AMERICAN
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