Meteorology category: 1039 books
by Sanjay Kumar Shukla
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
This book is intended to serve as a one-stop reference on fibre-reinforced soils. Over the past 30-35 years, the engineering behaviour of randomly distributed/oriented fibre-reinforced soil, also called simply fibre-reinforced soil, has been investigated in detail by researchers and engineers worldwide....
by Tapobrata Sanyal
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
This book presents a first-of-its-kind exposition on the emerging technology of jute fiber geotextiles. The book covers the characteristics of jute fiber and jute yarns, types and functions of jute geotextiles, and the mechanism of control of surficial soil with jute geotextiles. The content also...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
This book includes keynote presentations, invited speeches, and general session papers presented at the 7th International Symposium on Environmental Vibration and Transportation Geodynamics (formerly the International Symposium on Environmental Vibration), held from October 28 to 30, 2016 at Zhejiang...
Advances in Characterization and Analysis of Expansive Soils and Rocks
Proceedings of the 1st GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition, Egypt 2017 on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
This volume includes a collection of technical papers covering two important research topics in geotechnical engineering: (1) the behavior and treatment of expansive soils, and (2) the characterization of rock properties. The twelve studies on expansive soils include investigations into novel stabilization...
Practical Guide to Geo-Engineering
With Equations, Tables, Graphs and Check Lists
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
This handy reference manual puts a wealth of ready-to-use information, data, and practical procedures within immediate reach of geo-engineers and technicians, whether they be in the field or office. It assembles and organizes the most-needed set of equations, tables, graphs and check-lists on six...
We Are the Weather
Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2019
Some people reject the fact, overwhelmingly supported by scientists, that our planet is warming because of human activity. But do those of us who accept the reality of human-caused climate change truly believe it? If we did, surely we would be roused to act on what we know. Will future generations...
Snow
The biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
**The Financial Times' Travel Book of the Year 2018**
How many snowflakes does it take to build a snowman?
Where is the snowiest place on Earth?
When will the last snowflake fall?
Snow has a lot in common with religion.
It comes from heaven. It changes everything. It creates an...
Tambora
The Eruption That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2014
When Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, it unleashed the most destructive wave of extreme weather the world has witnessed in thousands of years. The volcano’s massive sulfate dust cloud enveloped the Earth, cooling temperatures and disrupting major weather systems for more than three years....
Geothermal Engineering
Fundamentals and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This book explains the engineering required to bring geothermal resources into use. The book covers specifically engineering aspects that are unique to geothermal engineering, such as measurements in wells and their interpretation, transport of near-boiling water through long pipelines, turbines driven...
by Alan Moran
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Alan Moran has been a prominent writer on regulatory matters for thirty years. He was the inaugural head of the Australian governments’ regulatory review office and researched the issues in “think tanks”. Working outside and within the Victorian Government, he was a major participant in the...
by Tony Eggleton
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2012
A Short Introduction to Climate Change provides a clear, balanced and well documented account of one of the most important issues of our time. It covers developments in climate science over the past 250 years and shows that recent climate change is more than the result of natural variability. It explains...
On Gaia
A Critical Investigation of the Relationship between Life and Earth
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
One of the enduring questions about our planet is how it has remained continuously habitable over vast stretches of geological time despite the fact that its atmosphere and climate are potentially unstable. James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis posits that life itself has intervened in the regulation of...
by Saumitra Mukherjee
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Climate change has been addressed since last decade based on the influence of human activities like production of industrial effluents, land use changes and other activities due to development of the society. These are very important issues no doubt but the activities due to the influence of extraterrestrial...
CLIMATE CHANGE CRAZINESS EXPOSED!
Twenty-One Climate Change Denials of Environmentalists
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
THIS IS THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE AND CONSERVATIVE BOOK ON CLIMATE CHANGE IN PRINT. It contains all the Major Claims made by Proponents of Man-made Climate Change ... or Anthropogenic Global Warming. It contains all their major False Predictions on Climate and Oil for over a hundred years! It contains...