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Field Guide: Fire in Dry Eucalypt Forest
Fuel Assessment and Fire Behaviour Prediction in Dry Eucalypt Forest
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2008
An effective response to bushfires relies on accurate predictions of fire behaviour, particularly the rate of spread, intensity and ‘spotting’. This field guide has been developed to provide a systematic method for assessing fuel hazard and predicting potential fire behaviour in dry eucalypt forest....
by David Lindenmayer, Jerry Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2003
Towards Forest Sustainability is a collection of practical essays by some of the world’s leading forest ecologists and managers from the United States of America, Canada, Finland, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand. The authors describe the changes that have taken place in forest management – highlighting...
Weird Weather
Tales of Astronomical and Atmospheric Anomalies
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
This book is, in a sense, a sequel to David Seargent's first Springer book Weird Astronomy (2010). Whereas Weird Astronomy extended over a broad range of purely astronomical topics, the present work concentrates on phenomena closer to home; the atmospheric and "shallow space" events as...
Dynamics of the Milky Way
Tidal Streams and Extended Distribution Functions for the Galactic Disc
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
This work presents a study of methods useful for modeling and understanding dynamical systems in the Galaxy. A natural coordinate system for the study of dynamical systems is the angle-action coordinate system. New methods for the approximation of the action-angle variables in general potentials...
Mars, planète habitable
Entretien avec Alexandre Mangeot
Language: French
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Fouler la « Planète Rouge », un rêve qui deviendra bientôt réalité Alors qu’il était encore au collège, Alexandre Mangeot affirmait sans ciller à ses camarades de classe : « Un jour, j’irai sur Mars ! » Le jeune homme, qui n’a jamais dévié de sa route, finit aujourd’hui un post-doctorat...
500 jours pour Mars
Entretien avec Romain Charles
Language: French
Release Date: February 9, 2016
L’homme est-il psychologiquement capable d’endurer le confinement d’un voyage sur Mars ?Un an et demi enfermé dans un grand bunker coupé de la lumière du jour, au service de la recherche scientifique et sans aucun contact possible avec l’extérieur ; voilà en quelques mots l’expérience...
Adaptation and Evolution in Marine Environments, Volume 2
The Impacts of Global Change on Biodiversity
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
The second volume of “Adaptation and Evolution in Marine Environments – The Impacts of Global Change on Biodiversity” from the series “From Pole to Pole” integrates the marine biology contribution of the first tome to the IPY 2007-2009, presenting overviews of organisms (from bacteria and...
Smart Bioenergy
Technologies and concepts for a more flexible bioenergy provision in future energy systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Biomass is a vital source of renewable energy, because it offers a wide range of established and potential methods for energy generation. It is also an important facet of the progression toward a sustainable energy future. The need for further development in the provision of bioenergy is underlined...
Drifting on Alien Winds
Exploring the Skies and Weather of Other Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Ever since the Montgolfier's hot air balloon carried a chicken, a goat, and a duck into the Parisian skies, scientists have dreamed of contraptions to explore the atmosphere. With the advent of the space age, new airborne inventions were needed. From the Soviet Venus balloons to the advanced studies...
by Nikolay Banichuk, Juha Jeronen, Pekka Neittaanmäki
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
This book deals with theoretical aspects of modelling the mechanical behaviour of manufacturing, processing, transportation or other systems in which the processed or supporting material is travelling through the system. Examples of such applications include paper making, transmission cables, band...
by Gulnura Issanova, Jilili Abuduwaili
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
This book highlights the aeolian processes in the desert zone of Kazakhstan and Central Asian Deserts, and analyzes the current status of dust and sand storms in Central Asia and Kazakhstan.
It also highlights the analyses, dynamics and long-term observations of storms on the basis of numerous...
Magnetic Fields in the Solar System
Planets, Moons and Solar Wind Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
This book addresses and reviews many of the still little understood questions related to the processes underlying planetary magnetic fields and their interaction with the solar wind. With focus on research carried out within the German Priority Program ”PlanetMag”, it also provides an overview...
by Yasuhito Narita
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
Dynamics of astrophysical systems is often described by plasma physics, yet understanding the nature of plasma turbulence remains as a challenge in physics in both theories and experiments. This book is an up-to-date summary and review of recent results in research on waves and turbulence in near-Earth...
Emerging Trends of Nanotechnology in Environment and Sustainability
A Review-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
This book discusses nanotechnology, its benefits and risks affecting the environment we live in today, and is divided into three parts: Part-I dealing with Sustainability, Part-II describing Toxicological Impacts, and Part-III discussing Nanomaterial-based Adsorbents.
The crucial challenge...