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What is the progress in hydraulic research?What are the new methods used in modeling of transport of momentum, matter and heat in both open and conduit channels?What new experimental methods, instruments, measurement techniques, and data analysis routines are used in...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-01-04
Collection :
GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences
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Entropy Theory and its Application in Environmental and Water Engineering responds to the need for a book that deals with basic concepts of entropy theory from a hydrologic and water engineering perspective and then for a book that deals with applications of these...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-01-02
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This series of five volumes proposes an integrated description of physical processes modeling used by scientific disciplines from meteorology to coastal morphodynamics. Volume 1 describes the physical processes and identifies the main measurement devices used to measure...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2012-12-27
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Case studies explore the Million Trees initiative in Los Angeles; the relationship of cap-and-trade policy, public health, greenhouse gas emissions and environmental justice in Southern California; Urbanization, vulnerability and environmental justice in the Brazilian...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-12-24
Collection :
Human-Environment Interactions
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How do and how did people perceive, manage and respond to natural disasters?How are the causes of natural disasters explained in history, how are they explained today? This volume investigates relationships between forces of nature and human culture in a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-12-20
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This series of five volumes proposes an integrated description of physical processes modeling used by scientific disciplines from meteorology to coastal morphodynamics. Volume 1 describes the physical processes and identifies the main measurement devices used to measure...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2012-12-17
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Failure by the international community to make substantive progress in reducing CO2 emissions, coupled with recent evidence of accelerating climate change, has brought increasing urgency to the search for additional remediation approaches. This book presents a...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-12-15
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Flash floods typically develop in a period a few hours or less and can arise from heavy rainfall and other causes, such as dam or flood defence breaches, and ice jam breaks. The rapid development, often associated with a high debris content, can present a considerable...
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Springer
Parution :
2012-12-14
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The Earth's rocky mantle convects to lose heat, which comes from the liquid iron core below. The mantle's interfaces - the core-mantle boundary, and the lithosphere - may hold the key to understanding mantle motion because of the seismic anisotropy present in these...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-12-14
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This book is a thorough introduction to climate science and global change. The author is a geologist who has spent much of his life investigating the climate of Earth from a time when it was warm and dinosaurs roamed the land, to today's changing climate.
Bill Hay...
Editeur :
Copernicus
Parution :
2012-12-13
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Through research, physical oceanography aims to solve the numerous problems stated by thermal, optical and dynamical properties of the oceans. Instrumentation and Metrology in Physical Oceanography describes the means used in oceanography to determine physical...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2012-12-13
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The book presents the historical evolution of gold mining activities in the Egyptian and Nubian Desert (Sudan) from about 4000 BC until the Early Islamic Period (~800–1350 AD), subdivided into the main classical epochs including the Early Dynastic – Old and Middle...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-12-13
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Modern Earth System Monitoring represents a fundamental change in the way scientists study the Earth System. In Oceanography, for the past two centuries, ships have provided the platforms for observing. Expeditions on the continents and Earth’s poles are land-based...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-12-12
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Health monitoring of civil structures (HMS) is a new discipline, which contributes to successful and on time detection of damages to structures. This book is a collection of chapters on different topics written by leading scientists in the field. It is primarily focused...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-12-11
Collection :
Springer Environmental Science and Engineering
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This book covers the gamut of coastal hazards that result from short-term low-frequency events and have high-magnitude and far-reaching impacts on coastal zones the world over. Much of the world’s population now lives in low-lying coastal zones that are inherently...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-12-11
Collection :
Coastal Research Library
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Climate Forcing of Geological Hazards provides a valuable new insight into how climate change is able to influence, modulate and trigger geological and geomorphological phenomena, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and landslides; ultimately increasing...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-12-10
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The Earth's average temperature has risen by 1.4°F over the past century, and computer models project that it will rise much more over the next hundred years, with significant impacts on weather, climate, and human society. Many climate scientists attribute these...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-12-09
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There have been major advances in technologies to support crisis response in the last few years. However, many aspects related to the efficient collection and integration of geo-information, applied semantics and situation awareness for disaster management are still...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-12-03
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This book advocates a fresh approach to planning that anticipates, rather than reacts to, the changes in climate currently in process. Today’s spatial planning procedures rely on historical evidence instead of preparing for factors that by definition lie in the future,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-12-02
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This book sets out the basic materials science needed for understanding the plastic deformation of rocks and minerals. Although at atmospheric pressure or at relatively low environmental pressures, these materials tend to be brittle, that is, to fracture with little...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2012-11-28
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