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From Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees: How Everything Moves
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
From the speed of light to moving mountains--and everything in between--ZOOM explores how the universe and its objects move.
If you sit as still as you can in a quiet room, you might be able to convince yourself that nothing is moving. But air currents are still wafting around you. Blood rushes...
by Lucy Jago
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Science, biography, and arctic exploration coverage in this extraordinary true story of the life and work of Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland, the troubled genius who solved the mysteries of one of nature’s most spectacular displays.
Captivated by the otherworldly lights of the...
by Hengnian Li
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Geostationary Satellites Collocation aims to find solutions for deploying a safe and reliable collocation control. Focusing on the orbital perturbation analysis, the mathematical foundations for orbit and control of the geostationary satellite. The mathematical and physical principle of orbital maneuver...
Synchronization and Triggering: from Fracture to Earthquake Processes
Laboratory, Field Analysis and Theories
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Processes of synchronization and interaction play a very special role in different physical problems concerning the dynamics of the Earth’s interior; they are of particular importance in the study of seismic phenomena, and their complexity is strongly affected by the variety of geological structures...
Basics of Geological Remote Sensing
An introduction to applications of remote sensing in geological mapping and mineral exploration
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
This new ebook provides an introduction to the basics of remote sensing for geologists and others in the mineral industries. It is aimed at students and professionals, working in geology and mineral exploration, and draws on a lifetime of experience in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. It uses examples...
Schumann Resonance for Tyros
Essentials of Global Electromagnetic Resonance in the Earth–Ionosphere Cavity
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Schumann resonance has been studied for more than half a century. The field became popular among researchers of the terrestrial environment using natural sources of electromagnetic radiation—lightning strokes, primarily—and now many Schumann observatories have been established around the world....
by Francesco Tampieri
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
This book offers a comprehensive review of our current understanding of the planetary boundary layer, particularly the turbulent exchanges of momentum, heat and passive scalars between the surface of the Earth and the atmosphere.
It presents and discusses the observations and the...
Large-Scale Perturbations of Magnetohydrodynamic Regimes
Linear and Weakly Nonlinear Stability Theory
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
New developments for hydrodynamical dynamo theory have been spurred by recent evidence of self-sustained dynamo activity in laboratory experiments with liquid metals.
The emphasis in the present volume is on the introduction of powerful mathematical techniques required to tackle modern multiscale...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
What is the first thing that ordinary people, for whom journalists are the proxy, ask when they meet a seismologist? It is certainly nothing technical like "What was the stress drop of the last earthquake in the Imperial Valley?" It is a sim ple question, which nevertheless summarizes...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2015
This book deals with fractals in understanding problems encountered in earth science, and their solutions. It starts with an analysis of two classes of methods (homogeneous fractals random models, and homogeneous source distributions or “one point” distributions) widely diffused in the geophysical...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Internal wave dynamics in lakes (and oceans) is an important physical component of geophysical fluid mechanics of ‘quiescent’ water bodies of the Globe. The formation of internal waves requires seasonal stratification of the water bodies and generation by (primarily) wind forces. Because they...
by A.E. Gledzer, Felix V. Dolzhansky, E.B. Gledzer
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
This newly-translated book takes the reader from the basic principles and conservation laws of hydrodynamics to the description of general atmospheric circulation. Among the topics covered are the Kelvin, Ertel and Rossby-Obukhov invariants, quasi-geostrophic equation, thermal wind, singular Helmholtz...
Megacities
Our Global Urban Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
As urbanization continues, and even accelerates, scientists estimate that by 2015 the world will have up to 60 ‘megacities’ – urban areas with more than five million inhabitants. With the irresistible economic attractions of urban centers, particularly in developing countries, making the influx...
by Victor W. Hatch
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This is the most significant breakthrough in over 100 years. Scientists, such as Einstein, Hawking and others have been seeking a “Grand Unified Theory, GUT” that would unify electromagnetic, gravity and other forces without success. Since the force of gravity is an electrical force their search...