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Books Relevant to Climatology


This is a list of textbooks that might be useful to those engaging in the practice of paleoclimatology. As the topic comprises many subtopics, there are various subcategories from which to choose, e.g. oceanography, data analysis, etc.



Paleoclimatology

Isotopes and Climates - R. Bowen

Quaternary Paleoclimatology: Methods of Paleoclimatic Reconstruction - R. Bradley

Climate Through the Ages - C. Brooks

Weather Cycles: Real or Imaginary - W. J. Burroughs

Paleoclimatology - T. Crowley and G. North

Ice Age Earth: Late Quaternary Geology and Climate - A. Dawson

The Nature and Causes of Climate Change - C. Goodess, J. Palutikof, and T. Davies

Global Physical Climatology - D. Hartmann

A Climate Modelling Primer - A. Henderson-Sellers and K. McGuffie

Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions - P. V. Hobbs, ed.

Cloud Dynamics - R. A. Houze, Jr.

Climate, Earth Processes and Earth History - R. Huggett

Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Modelling - B. Kagan

Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction - E. B. Kraus and J. A. Businger

Canon of Insolation and the Ice-Age Problem - M. Milankovitch

Physics of Climate - J. P. Peixoto and A. H. Oort

Composition, Chemistry, and Climate of the Atmosphere - H. B. Singh, ed.

Climate System Modeling - K. Trenberth

Fundamentals of Atmospheric Energetics - A. Wiin-Nielsen and T.-C. Chen

Biotic Feedbacks in the Global Climatic System - G. M. Woodwell and F. T. Mackenzie


Oceanography

See oceanography book section.


Meteorology

The Ceaseless Wind: An Introduction to the Theory of Atmospheric Motion - J. Dutton
Fundamentals of Atmospheric Dynamics and Thermodynamics - C. Riegel
Fundamentals of Atmospheric Energetics - A. Wiin-Nielsen and T.-C. Chen
Cloud Dynamics - R. Houze, Jr.


Data analysis

Atmospheric Data Analysis - R. Daley
Random Vibrations, Spectral and Wavelet Analysis - D. Newland


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