Meteorology category: 1039 books
Palaeoclimates and their Modelling
With special reference to the Mesozoic era
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The climate of the Earth has undergone many changes and for those times when geologic data are widespread and abundant the Mesozoic appears to have been one of the warmest intervals. This was a time during which the single continent Pangea disintegrated into continental units similar to those of today,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
This book is aimed at the practising engineer and engineering geologist working in tropical environments, where lands lides are mainly triggered by rain fall. This book is based on a similar work published in 1999 in Portuguese, which became the Rio de Janeiro Slope Manual. This book is an engineering...
Climate, Fire and Human Evolution
The Deep Time Dimensions of the Anthropocene
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
The book outlines principal milestones in the evolution of the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere during the last 4 million years in relation with the evolution from primates to the genus Homo – which uniquely mastered the ignition and transfer of fire. The advent of land plants since about 420 million...
Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change
Interim Results from the U.S. Country Studies Program
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Martin Parry University College, London, UK The 13 country studies collected in this re Adaptations Assessment published by the port represent the first of what is likely to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change become a worldwide, country-by-country (Carter et al., 1994) as an agreed technical...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Due to political pressures, prior to the 1990s little was known about the nature of human foraging adaptations in the deserts, grasslands, and mountains of north western China during the last glacial period. Even less was known about the transition to agriculture that followed. Now open to foreign...
Holistic Simulation of Geotechnical Installation Processes
Theoretical Results and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
This book provides recent developments and improvements in the modeling as well as application examples and is a complementary work to the previous Lecture Notes Vols. 77 and 80.
It summarizes the fundamental work from scientists dealing with the development of constitutive models for soils,...
Aerosol Pollution Impact on Precipitation
A Scientific Review
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Life on Earth is critically dependent upon the continuous cycling of water between oceans, continents and the atmosphere. Precipitation (including rain, snow, and hail) is the primary mechanism for transporting water from the atmosphere back to the Earth’s surface. It is also the key physical process...
The Northern North Atlantic
A Changing Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The northern North Atlantic is one of the regions most sensitive to past and present global changes. This book integrates the results of an interdisciplinary project studying the properties of the Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian Seas and the processes of pelagic and benthic particle formation, particle...
Self-organized Criticality and Predictability in Atmospheric Flows
The Quantum World of Clouds and Rain
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
This book presents a new concept of General Systems Theory and its application to atmospheric physics. It reveals that energy input into the atmospheric eddy continuum, whether natural or manmade, results in enhancement of fluctuations of all scales, manifested immediately in the intensification of...
Single Piles in Liquefiable Ground
Seismic Response and Numerical Analysis Methods
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
This thesis focuses on the seismic response of piles in liquefiable ground. It describes the design of a three-dimensional, unified plasticity model for large post-liquefaction shear deformation of sand, formulated and implemented for parallel computing. It also presents a three-dimensional, dynamic...
by Jebraeel Gholinezhad, John Senam Fianu, Mohamed Galal Hassan
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
This book addresses the problems involved in the modelling and simulation of shale gas reservoirs, and details recent advances in the field. It discusses various modelling and simulation challenges, such as the complexity of fracture networks, adsorption phenomena, non-Darcy flow, and natural fracture...
Making Sense of Weather and Climate
The Science Behind the Forecasts
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
How do meteorologists design forecasts for the next day's, the next week's, or the next month's weather? Are some forecasts more likely to be accurate than others, and why? Making Sense of Weather and Climate takes readers through key topics in atmospheric physics and presents a cogent view of how...
Intense Atmospheric Vortices
Proceedings of the Joint Symposium (IUTAM/IUGG) held at Reading (United Kingdom) July 14–17, 1981
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Weather Radar
Principles and Advanced Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
With their images practically ubiquitious in the daily media, weather radar systems provide data not only for understanding weather systems and improving forecasts (especially critical for severe weather), but also for hydrological applications, flood warnings and climate research in which ground...