Meteorology category: 1039 books
Highlights in Helioclimatology
Cosmophysical Influences on Climate and Hurricanes
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Written by pioneers in the field, Highlights in Helioclimatology examines the scientific evidence related to the influence of solar activity on climate and the resulting atmospheric process that creates hurricanes. In addition to providing the science behind the phenomenon, this book also provides...
Foundations for Innovative Application of Airborne Radars
Measuring the Water Surface Backscattering Signature and Wind
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
The ‘wind vector’ – wind speed and direction – is a main meteorological quantity and relevant for air-sea exchange processes. This book explores the use of several airborne microwave instruments, some of which are part of standard aircraft equipment, in determining the local wind vector over...
by Alexander V. Ryzhkov, Dusan S. Zrnic
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
This monograph offers a wide array of contemporary information on weather radar polarimetry and its applications. The book tightly connects the microphysical processes responsible for the development and evolution of the clouds’ bulk physical properties to the polarimetric variables, and contains...
by Parallel View Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2009
This compelling book was written by A resident of New Orleans who personally experienced hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. In Sky Dog he presents the real picture of what was going on on the ground; Sky Dog is all about mis-perception.
Climate Change and Cultural Dynamics
A Global Perspective on Mid-Holocene Transitions
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
The Middle Holocene epoch (8,000 to 3,000 years ago) was a time of dramatic changes in the physical world and in human cultures. Across this span, climatic conditions changed rapidly, with cooling in the high to mid-latitudes and drying in the tropics. In many parts of the world, human groups became...
Monitoring of Soil-Structure Interaction
Instruments for Measuring Soil Pressures
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Gregory Tsinker brings his extensive knowledge of structural engineering and geotechnical design to his translation of George E. Lazebnik's work on soil-structure interaction. Monitoring of Soil-Structure Interaction is aimed at professional geotechnical and foundation engineers who deal with soil-foundation...
Experimental Research in Earthquake Engineering
EU-SERIES Concluding Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
In this volume, top seismic experts and researchers from Europe and around the world, including the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) in the USA, present the most recent outcome of their work in experimental testing, as well as the results of the transnational...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This book provides a synthesis of the past decade of research into global changes that occurred in the earth system in the past. Focus is achieved by concentrating on those changes in the Earth's past environment that best inform our evaluation of current and future global changes and their consequences...
Exchange and Transport of Air Pollutants over Complex Terrain and the Sea
Field Measurements and Numerical Modelling; Ship, Ocean Platform and Laboratory Measurements
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As the regional models required to understand and control the generation, distribution and deposition of air pollutants become more precise, the need to understand the detailed effects of hilly and mountainous terrain becomes more acute. The Alpine regions and the mountainous Mediterranean coasts...
Microclimate for Cultural Heritage
Conservation, Restoration, and Maintenance of Indoor and Outdoor Monuments
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Microclimate for Cultural Heritage: Conservation and Restoration of Indoor and Outdoor Monuments, Second Edition, is a cutting-edge, theoretical, and practical handbook concerning microclimate, environmental factors, and conservation of cultural heritage. Although the focus is on cultural heritage...
Hydrological Data Driven Modelling
A Case Study Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
This book explores a new realm in data-based modeling with applications to hydrology. Pursuing a case study approach, it presents a rigorous evaluation of state-of-the-art input selection methods on the basis of detailed and comprehensive experimentation and comparative studies that employ emerging...
by Jack McGinnigle
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
The weather features mightily and at moments of high drama in the Biblical narrative. This study should appeal to Bible readers who are drawn to reconstruct the events in their mind. Most importantly, the author points to what weather language can teach us about the Triune God.
Beyond El Niño
Decadal and Interdecadal Climate Variability
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The interest and level of research into climate variability has risen dramatically in recent years, and major breakthroughs have been achieved in the understanding and modelling of seasonal to interannual climate variability and prediction. At the same time, the documentation of longer term variability...
by Ronnie Coleinger
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Universal MassEvery living creature on planet Earth shrank in size by a factor of five. What used to weigh 100 pounds now weighs 20 pounds. Elephants the size of dogs, pigs the size of mice, mice the size of aphids, humans the size of groundhogs are now the norm. The news anchors at GCN (Global...