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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).
Van Pelt Library QB603.A85 L67 2019
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lorenz, Ralph, 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Planets--Atmospheres.
- Planets.
- Planets--Atmospheres--Thermodynamic equilibrium.
- Climatology.
- Atmosphere.
- Mars (Planet)--Atmosphere.
- Mars (Planet).
- Venus (Planet)--Atmosphere.
- Venus (Planet).
- Titan (Satellite)--Atmosphere.
- Titan (Satellite).
- Earth (Planet).
- Saturn (Planet)--Titan (Satellite).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 320 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliography (pages 281-311) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781108471541
- 1108471544
- OCLC:
- 1077482199
- Publisher Number:
- 99979967824
- 40028910410
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