Author: Publisher:
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Category : Alpine regions
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The 28th International Arctic Workshop
Author: Arctic Research of the United States
Author: Proceedings Of The 28th International Conference On High Energy Physics (In 2 Volumes)
Author: Zygmunt AjdukPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814547107
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1878
Book Description
The 28th conference from the Rochester series was the major high energy physics conference in 1996. Volume one contains short reports on new theoretical and experimental results. Volume two consists of the review talks presented in the plenary sessions.
The Iceberg in the Mist: Northern Research in Pursuit of a “Little Ice Age”
Author: A.E.J. OgilviePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940173352X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
THE "LITTLE ICE AGE": LOCAL AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES P. D. JONES and K. R. BRIFFA Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK. This volume of Climatic Change is devoted to the study of the climate of the last 1000 years, with a major emphasis on the last few centuries. The timespan encompasses what has been referred to as the "Little Ice Age" (Bradley, 1992). This term was originally coined by glaciologists, with reference to the most recent major glacial advance of the Holocene (Bradley and Jones, 1993). Although other such advances in different parts of the world may not have been synchronous, the term "Little Ice Age" has come to be associated with the period of a widespread foreward movement of European glaciers between about 14 50 to 1850, as well as with relatively cooler temperatures. The issue of whether or not this concept is appropriate, is a major theme of many of the papers included in this volume.
Climatic Variability in Sixteenth-Century Europe and Its Social Dimension
Author: Christian PfisterPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401592594
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A multidecadal cooling is known to have occurred in Europe in the final decades of the sixteenth-century. It is still open to debate as to what might have caused the underlying shifts in atmospheric circulation and how these changes affected societies. This book is the fruit of interdisciplinary cooperation among 37 scientists including climatologists, hydrologists, glaciologists, dendroclimatologists, and economic and cultural historians. The known documentary climatic evidence from six European countries is compared to results of tree-ring studies. Seasonal temperature and precipitation are estimated from this data and monthly mean surface pressure patterns in the European area are reconstructed for outstanding anomalies. Results are compared to fluctuations of Alpine glaciers and to changes in the frequency of severe floods and coastal storms. Moreover, the impact of climate change on grain prices and wine production is assessed. Finally, it is convincingly argued that witches at that time were burnt as scapegoats for climatic change.
New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin
Author: MARINE 2011, IV International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering
Author: Luís EçaPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400761430
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This book contains selected papers from the Fourth International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering, held at Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal in September 2011. Nowadays, computational methods are an essential tool of engineering, which includes a major field of interest in marine applications, such as the maritime and offshore industries and engineering challenges related to the marine environment and renewable energies. The 2011 Conference included 8 invited plenary lectures and 86 presentations distributed through 10 thematic sessions that covered many of the most relevant topics of marine engineering today. This book contains 16 selected papers from the Conference that cover “CFD for Offshore Applications”, “Fluid-Structure Interaction”, “Isogeometric Methods for Marine Engineering”, “Marine/Offshore Renewable Energy”, “Maneuvering and Seakeeping”, “Propulsion and Cavitation” and “Ship Hydrodynamics”. The papers were selected with the help of the recognized experts that collaborated in the organization of the thematic sessions of the Conference, which guarantees the high quality of the papers included in this book.
Tenth Anniversary Seminar ; Passive Microwave Users Workshop ; Microwave Radiometry Bibliography
Author: Claire S. HansonPublisher:
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Category : Frozen ground
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Trail of Story, Traveller's Path
Author: Leslie Main JohnsonPublisher: Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 189742535X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
This sensitive examination of the meanings of landscape draws on the author's rich experience with diverse enviornments and peoples: the Gitksan and Witsuwit'en of norwestern British Columbia, the Kaska Dena of the southern Yukon, and the Gwich'in of the Mackenzie Delta. Johnson maintains that the ways people understand and act upon land have wide implications, shaping cultures and ways of life, determining identity and polity, and creating and mainting environmental relationships and economies. Her emphassis on landscape and ways of knowing the land provides a particular take on ecological relationships of First Peoples to land.