Meteorology category: 1039 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
This collection focuses on the development of novel approaches to address one of the most pressing challenges of civil engineering, namely the mitigation of natural hazards. Numerous engineering books to date have focused on, and illustrate considerable progress toward, mitigation of individual...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
This book deals primarily with monitoring, prediction and understanding of Tropical Cyclones (TCs). It was envisioned to serve as a teaching and reference resource at universities and academic institutions for researchers and post-graduate students. It has been designed to provide a broad outlook...
Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides
Volume 4 Diversity of Landslide Forms
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2017
This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), University of Ljubljana (UL) and Geological Survey of Slovenia in Ljubljana,...
Storminess and Environmental Change
Climate Forcing and Responses in the Mediterranean Region
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
This book describes recent developments in the modeling of hydro-climatological processes in time and space. The topic brings together a wide range of disciplines, such as climatology, hydrology, geomorphology and ecology, with examples of problems and related modeling approaches. Parsimonious hydro-climatological...
Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides
Volume 3 Advances in Landslide Technology
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), University of Ljubljana (UL) and Geological Survey of Slovenia in Ljubljana,...
The Weather Experiment
The Pioneers Who Sought to See the Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
A history of weather forecasting, and an animated portrait of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made it possible
By the 1800s, a century of feverish discovery had launched the major branches of science. Physics, chemistry, biology, geology, and astronomy made the natural world explicable...
by Tom Shachtman
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2000
“A lovely, fascinating book, which brings science to life.” —Alan Lightman
Combining science, history, and adventure, Tom Shachtman “holds the reader’s attention with the skill of a novelist” as he chronicles the story of humans’ four-centuries-long quest to master the secrets...
The Ravaging Tide
Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2006
If, like many Americans, you believe the ongoing tragedy of Hurricane Katrina was a once-in-a-lifetime fluke, you need to read this book. In the coming years and decades, the safety of your region, your town, your home may depend on the warnings you'll encounter on these pages. That's because the...
by John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
John and Mary Gribbin tell the remarkable story of how we came to understand the phenomenon of Ice Ages. They focus on the key personalities obsessed with the quest for answers to tantalizing questions.How frequently do Ice Ages occur? How do astronomical rhythms affect the Earth's climate?...
by Robert J. Trapp
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
This new textbook seeks to promote a deep yet accessible understanding of mesoscale-convective processes in the atmosphere. Mesoscale-convective processes are commonly manifested in the form of thunderstorms, which are fast evolving, inherently hazardous, and can assume a broad range of sizes and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Our desire to understand the global carbon cycle and its link to the climate system represents a huge challenge. These overarching questions have driven a great deal of scientific endeavour in recent years: What are the basic oceanic mechanisms which control the oceanic carbon reservoirs and the partitioning...
by A.P. Dimri, Amulya Chevuturi
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
This book examines the meteorological phenomenon known as Western Disturbances (WDs) and traces their influence on the Indian subcontinent. It fully details the unique characteristics and dynamics of these disturbances, which produce large-scale instabilities in the atmosphere over northern India...
Extreme Weather
A Guide To Surviving Flash Floods, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Heat Waves, Snowstorms, Tsunamis and Other Natural Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Flash floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, hurricanes, mudslides, thunderstorms, and wildfires - these devastating events are happening around the world at an alarming rate. As a Meteorologist on CNN and HLN, Bonnie Schneider reports on these natural disasters, explaining when they're likely to strike,...
by David Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
“Folklore Guide to the Weather” contains a series of folklore saying pertaining to the weather and how to predict and read it. Although there are many such sayings, the ones within this volume are those that contemporarily couldn't be explained by science, but which the author believes are reliable...