Meteorology category: 1039 books
Global Emission Inventory and Atmospheric Transport of Black Carbon
Evaluation of the Associated Exposure
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
This thesis presents research focusing on the improvement of high-resolution global black carbon (BC) emission inventory and application in assessing the population exposure to ambient BC. A particular focus of the thesis is on the construction of a high-resolution (both spatial and sectorial) fuel...
by Zekâi Şen
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
This book draws on the author’s professional experience and expertise in humid and arid regions to familiarize readers with the basic scientific philosophy and methods regarding floods and their impacts on human life and property.
The basis of each model, algorithm and calculation methodology...
by Josefino Comiso
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
Only a few centuries ago, we knew very little about our planet Earth. The Earth was considered flat by many although it was postulated by a few like Aristotle that it is spherical based on observations that included the study of lunar eclipses. Much later, Christopher Columbus successfully sailed...
Climate Change
Alternate Governance Policy for South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Climate Change: Alternate Governance Policy for South Asia provides an assessment of climate change issues through the socioeconomic lens of one of the world’s poorest, most populous regions. Although climate change is a global issue, localized solutions have become increasingly necessary to address...
Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation
Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report (IPCC-SREX) explores the challenge of understanding and managing the risks of climate extremes to advance climate change adaptation. Extreme weather and climate events, interacting with exposed and vulnerable human and natural systems,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book includes two parts. The first part is more theoretical and general, and it covers fundamental principles: geospatial climate data measurement; spatial analysis, mapping and climate; geographical information, remote sensing and climatology; and geographical information for initialisation...
Long-Term Climate Monitoring by the Global Climate Observing System
International Meeting of Experts, Asheville, North Carolina, USA
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Is the climate warming? Is the hydrological cycle intensifying? Is the climate becoming more variable or extreme? Is the chemical composition of the atmosphere changing? Is the solar irradiance constant? Answers to these questions are fundamental to understanding, predicting, and assessing climate...
Social Science Research and Climate Change
An Interdisciplinary Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Challenges of a Changing Earth
Proceedings of the Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 10–13 July 2001
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
This volume is based on plenary presentations from Challenges of a Changing Earth, a Global Change Open Science Conference held in Amsterdam, The Neth- lands, in July 2001. The meeting brought together about 1400 scientists from 105 co- tries around the world to describe, discuss and debate the latest...
by L.U. Salkield
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Whether the Phoenicians and t he In the south-west of the Iberian Carthaginians ever actually worked Peninsula there is a vast pyritic the mines , or were merely traders, is mineral ised zone, known as the not certain , but after 205 BC, when Andevallo, extending from near they defeated the Carthagi...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Environmental Hydrology presents a unified approach to the role of hydrology in environmental planning and management, emphasizing the consideration of the hydrological continuum in determining the fate and migration of chemicals as well as micro-organisms in the environment, both below the ground...
by P.K. Swamee, B.R. Chahar
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
The book presents firsthand material from the authors on design of hydraulic canals. The book discusses elements of design based on principles of hydraulic flow through canals. It covers optimization of design based on usage requirements and economic constraints. The book includes explicit design...
Advances in Hydroinformatics
SIMHYDRO 2012 – New Frontiers of Simulation
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The book is a collection of extended papers which have been selected for presentation during the SIMHYDRO 2012 conference held in Sophia Antipolis in September 2012. The papers present the state of the art numerical simulation in domains such as (1) New trends in modelling for marine, river &...
Advances in Hydroinformatics
SimHydro 2017 - Choosing The Right Model in Applied Hydraulics
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
This book gathers a collection of extended papers based on presentations given during the SimHydro 2017 conference, held in Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France on June 14–16, 2017. It focuses on how to choose the right model in applied hydraulics and considers various aspects, including the modeling...