Description
Advancing technology and improved scientific understanding have propelled the atmospheric sciences from a fledging discipline to a global enterprise that contributes to safety and vitality in a broad range of public and private endeavors. Integrating a comprehensive assessment of the atmospheric sciences with a vision for the future, this book links progress in science with needs for atmospheric information.
Aimed at federal authorities, the private sector, and the scientific and education communities, this book identifies imperatives in atmospheric observations, recommends directions for research, and examines issues related to research priorities and management of the discipline and its services to the nation.
In a detailed look at five subdisciplines--atmospheric physics, atmospheric chemistry, dynamics and weather forecasting, upper atmosphere and near-earth space physics, climate and climate change--this book offers research priorities and recommendations to guide the science as it enters the twenty-first century.
