Meteorology category: 1039 books
Disasters and Democracy
The Politics Of Extreme Natural Events
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
In recyears, the number of presidential declarations of “major disasters” has skyrocketed. Such declarations make stricken areas eligible for federal emergency relief funds that greatly reduce their costs. But is federalizing the costs of disasters helping to lighten the overall burden of disasters...
by Mohammad Yamin
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
This book is at once a supplement to traditional foundation engineering textbooks and an independent problem-solving learning tool. The book is written primarily for university students majoring in civil or construction engineering taking foundation analysis and design courses to encourage them to...
Elasticity for Geotechnicians
A Modern Exposition of Kelvin, Boussinesq, Flamant, Cerruti, Melan, and Mindlin Problems
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
This book deals in a modern manner with a family of named problems from an old and mature subject, classical elasticity. These problems are formulated over either a half or the whole of a linearly elastic and isotropic two- or three-dimensional space, subject to loads concentrated at points or lines....
by Hanhua Zhu, Mengchong Chen, Yu Zhao
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This book examines how the state of underground structures can be determined with the assistance of force, deformation and energy. It then analyzes mechanized shield methods, the New Austrian tunneling method (NATM) and conventional methods from this new perspective. The book gathers a wealth of cases...
Spiegelzee
de zeespiegelgeschiedenis van de mens
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Wie zich zorgen maakt over een stijgende zeespiegel, zo schrijft Salomon Kroonenberg in ‘Spiegelzee’, vergeet dat de mensheid zoiets al eerder heeft meegemaakt. Zo’n 120.000 jaar geleden stond de zeespiegel zes meter hoger dan nu, en lag Amersfoort aan zee. In het koudste deel van de laatste...
Landslide Science for a Safer Geoenvironment
Vol.1: The International Programme on Landslides (IPL)
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Third World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) in June 2014. The complete collection of papers from the Forum is published in three full-color volumes and one mono-color volume.
The Water Problem
Climate Change and Water Policy in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Building water resilience is the single biggest challenge in a changing global climate.
The United States faces a water crisis as critical as the energy crisis that once dominated headlines. Like the energy crisis, a solution can be found. Pat Mulroy, for many years general manager of the Southern...
Dendroclimatology
Progress and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
A top priority in climate research is obtaining broad-extent and long-term data to support analyses of historical patterns and trends, and for model development and evaluation. Along with directly measured climate data from the present and recent past, it is important to obtain estimates of long past...
Particle Dark Matter
Observations, Models and Searches
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2010
Dark matter is among the most important open problems in modern physics. Aimed at graduate students and researchers, this book describes the theoretical and experimental aspects of the dark matter problem in particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. Featuring contributions from 48 leading theorists...
Alternative Types of Roundabouts
An Informational Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
This book presents a history of roundabouts, an introduction to their design, calculations of their capacity and traffic-safety features. It describes the key features of standard roundabouts and their limitations. Alternative types of roundabouts are a fairly recent development and have only been...
by Sviatoslav Timashev, Anna Bushinskaya
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
The book contains solutions to fundamental problems which arise due to the logic of development of specific branches of science, which are related to pipeline safety, but mainly are subordinate to the needs of pipeline transportation.
The book deploys important but not yet...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book is a collection of papers presented at the International Workshop on Geotechnical Natural Hazards held July 12–15, 2014, in Kitakyushu, Japan. The workshop was the sixth in the series of Japan–Taiwan Joint Workshops on Geotechnical Hazards from Large Earthquakes and Heavy Rainfalls,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas and is estimated to be responsible for approximately one-fifth of man-made global warming. Per kilogram, it is 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide over a 100-year time horizon -- and global warming is likely to enhance methane release from a number of sources....
The Worst Weather on Earth
A History of the Mount Washington Observatory
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
"There may be worse weather, from time to time, at some forbidding place on Planet Earth, but it has yet to be reliably recorded." So begins The Worst Weather on Earth: A History of the Mount Washington Observatory. Mount Washington, at 6,288 feet above sea level, is one of the highest elevations...