Meteorology category: 1039 books
Advancement in the Design and Performance of Sustainable Asphalt Pavements
Proceedings of the 1st GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition, Egypt 2017 on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This volume on “Advancement in the Design and Performance of Sustainable Asphalt Pavements” includes a collection of research and practical papers from an international research and technology activities on Mixture Design Innovation, Structural Pavement Design, Advancement in Production and Construction,...
Advances in Analysis and Design of Deep Foundations
Proceedings of the 1st GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition, Egypt 2017 on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This volume on “Advances in Analysis and Design of Deep Foundations” contains 22 technical papers which cover various aspects of analysis and design of deep foundations based on full-scale field testing, numerical modeling, and analytical solutions. The technical papers are 8-10 pages long that...
Mid-Latitude Atmospheric Dynamics
A First Course
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
This exciting text provides a mathematically rigorous yet accessible textbook that is primarily aimed at atmospheric science majors. Its accessibility is due to the texts emphasis on conceptual understanding.
The first five chapters constitute a companion text to introductory courses covering...
Light Scattering Reviews, Volume 11
Light Scattering and Radiative Transfer
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This is the eleventh volume in the series Light Scattering Reviews, devoted to current knowledge of light scattering problems and both experimental and theoretical research techniques related to their solution. The focus of this volume is to describe modern advances in radiative transfer and light...
by Chih-Pei Chang, Michael Ghil, Mojib Latif;John M Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
This book focuses on two major challenges in the climate sciences: 1) to describe the decadal-to-centennial variations in instrumental and proxy records; and 2) to distinguish between anthropogenic variations and natural variability. The National Taiwan University invited some of the world's leading...
Aviation Turbulence
Processes, Detection, Prediction
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Anyone who has experienced turbulence in flight knows that it is usually not pleasant, and may wonder why this is so difficult to avoid. The book includes papers by various aviation turbulence researchers and provides background into the nature and causes of atmospheric turbulence that affect aircraft...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
This book is a collection of the lectures, held at the International Summer School ISSAOS-2000 in L'Aquila (Italy), given by invited lecturers coming from both Europe and the USA. The goal of the book is to provide a broad panorama of spaceborne remote sensing techniques, at both microwave and visible-infrared...
Volcanic Ash
Hazard Observation
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Volcanic Ash: Hazard Observation presents an introduction followed by four sections, each on a separate topic and each containing chapters from an internationally renowned pool of authors. The introduction provides a volcanological context for ash generation that sets the stage for the development...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
This book deals primarily with understanding, monitoring and prediction of Tropical Cyclones (TCs) over the North Indian Ocean (NIO). There is special emphasis on TC genesis, intensification, movement and associated adverse weather like heavy rainfall and gale winds. It highlights the current state...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
During the 1980's a wealth of information was reported from field and laboratory experiments in order to validate andlor modify various aspects of the surface layer Monin-Obukhov (M-O) similarity theory for use over the sea, and to introduce and test new concepts related to high resolution flux magnitudes...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2010
Recent studies suggest that tropical cyclones are more powerful than in the past with the most dramatic increase in the North Atlantic. The increase is correlated with an increase in ocean temperature. A debate concerns the nature of these increases with some scientists attributing them to a natural...
Physical Oceanography of the Adriatic Sea
Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Because of its centrallocation in the Old World, the Adriatic Sea has long been explored and studied. Modern methods of investigation, however, have accelerated the pace of study during the last decade. These are the ADCP currentmeter, satellite imagery, drifter technology, and, last but not least,...
Coastal Storms
Processes and Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
A comprehensive introduction to coastal storms and their associated impacts
Coastal Storms offers students and professionals in the field a comprehensive overview and groundbreaking text that is specifically devoted to the analysis of coastal storms. Based on the most recent knowledge and contributions...
Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides
Volume 2 Advances in Landslide Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 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,...