The book "Introduction to Geographic Information Systems" by Kang-tsung Chang offers an in-depth introduction to GIS, combining core principles with practical applications. Targeted at students and professionals in fields like geography, environmental studies, and urban planning, it covers foundational GIS topics such as spatial data structures, data collection, management, and spatial analysis…
This textbook presents all aspects of climate system dynamics, on all timescales from the Earth's formation to modern human-induced climate change. It discusses the dominant feedbacks and interactions between all the components of the climate system: atmosphere, ocean, land surface, and ice sheets. It addresses one of the key challenges for a course on the climate system: students can come from…