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  • Microclimate and Local Climate

    de Roger G. Barry, Peter D. Blanken ...
    This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive treatment of the variables and processes of microclimate and local climate, including radiation balance and energy balance. It describes and explains the climate within the lower atmosphere and upper soil, the region critical to life on Earth. Topics that are covered include not only the physical processes that affect microclimate, but also ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

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  • Disasters and Democracy

    The Politics Of Extreme Natural Events

    de Rutherford H. Platt ...
    In recent years, the number of presidential declarations of “major disasters” has skyrocketed. Such declarations make stricken areas eligible for federal emergency relief funds that greatly reduce their costs. But is federalizing the costs of disasters helping to lighten the overall burden of disasters or is it making matters worse? Does it remove incentives for individuals and local communities ... Leer más

    $34.59 USD

  • Ancient Meteorology

    de Liba Taub ...
    Series series Sciences of Antiquity
    The first book of its kind in English, Ancient Meteorology discusses Greek and Roman approaches and attitudes to this broad discipline, which in classical antiquity included not only 'weather', but occurrences such as earthquakes and comets that today would be regarded as geological, astronomical or seismological.The range and diversity of this literature highlights the question of scholarly ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Basic Earthquake Engineering

    From Seismology to Analysis and Design

    de Halûk Sucuoğlu, Sinan Akkar ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book provides senior undergraduate students, master students and structural engineers who do not have a background in the field with core knowledge of structural earthquake engineering that will be invaluable in their professional lives. The basics of seismotectonics, including the causes, magnitude, and intensity of earthquakes, are first explained. Then the book introduces basic elements of ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Climate, History and the Modern World

    de Hubert H. Lamb ...
    We live in a world that is increasingly vulnerable to climatic shocks - affecting agriculture and industry, government and international trade, not to mention human health and happiness. Serious anxieties have been aroused by respected scientists warning of dire perils that could result from upsets of the climatic regime. In this internationally acclaimed book, Emeritus Professor Hubert Lamb ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • The Economics of Climate Change

    The Stern Review

    de Nicholas Stern ...
    There is now clear scientific evidence that emissions from economic activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels for energy, are causing changes to the Earth´s climate. A sound understanding of the economics of climate change is needed in order to underpin an effective global response to this challenge. The Stern Review is an independent, rigourous and comprehensive analysis of the economic ... Leer más

    $122.99 USD

  • Advances in Meteorology, Climatology and Atmospheric Physics

    Edición de Panagiotis T. Nastos, Costas G. Helmis ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book essentially comprises the proceedings of the 11th International Conference of Meteorology, Climatology and Atmospheric Physics (COMECAP 2012) that is held in Athens from 30 May to 1 June 2012. The Conference addresses researchers, professionals and students interested in the following topics: Agricultural Meteorology and Climatology, Air Quality, Applied Meteorology and Climatology, ... Leer más

    $287.99 USD

  • Climate Change and Climate Modeling

    de J. David Neelin ...
    Provides students with a solid foundation in climate science, with which to understand global warming, natural climate variations, and climate models. As climate models are one of our primary tools for predicting and adapting to climate change, it is vital we appreciate their strengths and limitations. Also key is understanding what aspects of climate science are well understood and where ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Global Environmental Change and Land Use

    Edición de C.A. Rovers, Han Haarman, A. Verhagen ...
    The interaction between environmental change and human activities is com plex, requiring the concepts and tools of a number of disciplines for its effective analysis. Land-use and land-cover change has only recently become a topic susceptible to scientific research, as these concepts and tools have been devel oped and made available. Rooted in a broad community concemed with global change, ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Fibre-Reinforced Soil Engineering

    de Sanjay Kumar Shukla ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    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. Waste fibres (plastic waste fibres, old tyre fibres, etc.) create disposal and environmental ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • Extreme Weather

    Forty Years of the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO)

    Edición de Robert K. Doe ...
    This book is about weather extremes in the United Kingdom. It presents fascinating and detailed insights into tornadoes (supercell and non-supercell tornadoes, historical and contemporary case studies, frequency and spatial distributions, and unique data on extreme events); thunderstorms (epic event analysis and observing); hailstorms (intensity, distributions and frequency of high magnitude ... Leer más

    $69.00 USD

  • Statistical Downscaling and Bias Correction for Climate Research

    de Douglas Maraun, Martin Widmann ...
    Statistical downscaling and bias correction are becoming standard tools in climate impact studies. This book provides a comprehensive reference to widely-used approaches, and additionally covers the relevant user context and technical background, as well as a synthesis and guidelines for practitioners. It presents the main approaches including statistical downscaling, bias correction and weather ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD