Meteorology category: 1039 books
by Michael Gadsden, Wilfried Schröder
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
An atmospheric phenomenon is considered as 'explained' when we have succeeded in deducing it on the basis of accepted principles of physics. (H. Ertel, Methods and problems of dynamical meteorolo gy,p. l) Until recently, noctilucent clouds were regarded merely as a curious atmos pheric phenomenon,...
Ground Truth
A Guide to Tracking Climate Change at Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Before you read this book, you have homework to do. Grab a notebook, go outside, and find a nearby patch of nature. What do you see, hear, feel, and smell? Are there bugs, birds, squirrels, deer, lizards, frogs, or fish, and what are they doing? What plants are in the vicinity, and in what ways are...
by Andrew Ingersoll
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
This concise, sophisticated introduction to planetary climates explains the global physical and chemical processes that determine climate on any planet or major planetary satellite--from Mercury to Neptune and even large moons such as Saturn's Titan. Although the climates of other worlds are extremely...
by Stan Yorke
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
The weather has always dominated our daily lives and it remains our favourite topic of conversation. We all want to know what the weather will be for the week ahead in order to plan our days. But how reliable are the forecasts?Stan Yorke has written a short guide that explains in simple language the...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Full document description: Weather is never static. It is always dynamic. Its interpretation is an art. The environment is in control in wildland firefighting. Free-burning fires are literally nourished by weather elements, atmospheric components, and atmospheric motion. Outguessing Mother Nature...
by Shuying Wang
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
This book gathers the main research findings on monotonic, cyclic and postcyclic shear behavior of low-plasticity. Drawing on the low-plasticity silt from the Mississippi River Valley, it determines that the silt’s critical state line can be changed due to liquefaction, and thus offers valuable...
by Gerd Gudehus
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
Soil is matter in its own right. Its nature can be captured by means of monotonous, cyclic and strange attractors. Thus material properties are defined by the asymptotic response of sand- and clay-like samples to imposed deformations and stresses. This serves to validate and calibrate elastoplastic...
Holistic Simulation of Geotechnical Installation Processes
Benchmarks and Simulations
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
This book examines in detail the entire process involved in implementing geotechnical projects, from a well-defined initial stress and deformation state, to the completion of the installation process.
The individual chapters provide the fundamental knowledge needed to effectively...
Dynamic Response of Infrastructure to Environmentally Induced Loads
Analysis, Measurements, Testing, and Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
This book provides state of the art coverage of important current issues in the analysis, measurement, and monitoring of the dynamic response of infrastructure to environmental loads, including those induced by earthquake motion and differential soil settlement. The coverage is in five parts that...
Practical Soil Dynamics
Case Studies in Earthquake and Geotechnical Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
The objective of this book is to fill some of the gaps in the existing engineering codes and standards related to soil dynamics, concerning issues in earthquake engineering and ground vibrations, by using formulas and hand calculators. The usefulness and accuracy of the simple analyses are demonstrated...
Bifurcation and Degradation of Geomaterials with Engineering Applications
Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Bifurcation and Degradation in Geomaterials dedicated to Hans Muhlhaus, Limassol, Cyprus, 21-25 May 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
This book contains the scientific contributions to the 11th International Workshop on Bifurcation and Degradation in Geomaterials (IWBDG) held in Limassol-Cyprus, May 21-25, 2017. The IWBDG series have grown in size and scope, since their inception 30 years ago in Germany, covering more and wider...
Southern Hemisphere Paleo- and Neoclimates
Key Sites, Methods, Data and Models
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Climate models show that climate change is not a uniform process. Areas of increased temperature are situated near areas of decreased temperature, areas with increased precipitation adjoin areas of drought. This is one of the reasons why climate change is so difficult to detect. Any parameter must...
Ocean Forecasting
Conceptual Basis and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The Advanced Study Courses in the field of Marine Science and Technology were part of the training programme developed from 1989 until 1999 within MAST, the Marine Science and Technology Programme of the European Union. They were related to the core topics of MAST Programme, marine systems research,...
Fatal Isolation
The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
In a cemetery on the southern outskirts of Paris lie the bodies of nearly a hundred of what some have called the first casualties of global climate change. They were the so-called abandoned victims of the worst natural disaster in French history, the devastating heat wave that struck in August 2003,...