Meteorology category: 1039 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Climatologists with an eye on the past have any number of sources for their work, from personal diaries to weather station reports. Piecing together the trajectory of a weather event can thus be a painstaking process taking years and involving real detective work. Missing pieces of a climate puzzle...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Advanced Research Workshop entitled “Weakly Interacting Molecular Pairs: Unconventional Absorbers of Radiation in the At- sphere” was held in Abbaye de Fontevraud, France, from April 29 to May 3, 2002. The meeting involved 40 researchers from 14 countries. The goal of this meeting was to address...
Météorologie
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 19, 2016
La météorologie, du grec meteora et logos, dont l’association signifie « science des choses suspendues en l’air », a pour objet l'étude de l’atmosphère et des phénomènes qui s’y produisent tels les nuages, les précipitations, la foudre ou les tempêtes. L’atmosphère est une ...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2014
In 1961 Congress allocated funding for the creation of a weather modification program headed by the Bureau of Reclamation. Project Skywater came fifteen years after Irving Langmuir, Vincent Schaefer, and Bernard Vonnegut of the General Electric Laboratories in Schenectady, New York, successfully demonstrated...
by Martin Capages Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
The Green New Deal utilizes a propaganda technique called Appeal to Fear. It advances the notion that the U. S. must initiate a massive and urgent State-run program that would control the climate by reducing the use of carbon-based fuels. It would simultaneously improve the lot of the poor and...
Handbook of Climate Change and Agroecosystems
Global and Regional Aspects and Implications — Joint Publication with the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Climate change is no longer merely projected to occur in the indeterminate future. It has already begun to be manifested in the weather regimes affecting agroecosystems, food production, and rural livelihoods in many regions around the world. It is a real and growing challenge to the world at large...
Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides
Volume 5 Landslides in Different Environments
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 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,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
The recent earthquake disasters in Japan and a series of other disasters in the world have highlighted again the need for more reliable geotechnical prediction and better methods for geotechnical design and in particular dealing with geohazards. This book provides a timely review and summaries of...
Landslide Science for a Safer Geoenvironment
Volume 2: Methods of Landslide Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 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.
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
In this edited volume on advances in forensic geotechnical engineering, a number of technical contributions by experts and professionals in this area are included. The work is the outcome of deliberations at various conferences in the area conducted by Prof. G.L. Sivakumar Babu and Dr. V.V.S. Rao...
by Masanori Hamada
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Earthquake and tsunami disasters have been increasing rapidly and globally in the last quarter-century. The purpose of this book is to provide essential knowledge and information on the mitigation of earthquakes and tsunamis for graduate students, young researchers, and geotechnical engineers. It...
The Near-Surface Layer of the Ocean
Structure, Dynamics and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
The rationale for publishing a second edition of this monograph is that this area of research continues to show remarkable advancement. The new generation of synthetic aperture radar satellites has provided unprecedented spatial resolution of sea surface features. In addition, satellites to measure...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The objective of this NATO Advanced Research Workshop was to discuss our current understanding of the role of clouds in climate and chemistry. The range of topics dis cussed during the workshop included: modeling of clouds in GCMs; observations of the cloud micro physical properties; the water vapor...
by Lakshmi H. Kantha, Carol Anne Clayson
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2000
Oceans play a pivotal role in our weather and climate. Ocean-borne commerce is vital to our increasingly close-knit global community. Yet we do not fully understand the intricate details of how they function, how they interact with the atmosphere, and what the limits are to their biological productivity...