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Author : Maurice Meunier,Christophe Ancey,Didier Richard
Publisher : Editions Quae
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2853626547
Author : Pietro Bernardara,Michel Lang,Eric Sauquet,Daniel Schertzer,Ioulia Tchiriguyskaia
Publisher : Editions Quae
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782759200627
This book provides a simplified description of the procedures to be used to perform an analysis of hydrological data within a multifractal framework. After a review of multifractal theory and the presentation of one model for identifying scale invariance properties, examples of applications to rainfall and discharge time series are given. It will be of interest to teachers and researchers in this field, both nationally and abroad.
Author : Martine Berlan-Darqué,Yves Luginbühl,Daniel Terrasson
Publisher : Editions Quae
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Landscapes
ISBN : 9782759200603
Author : Francois Louchet
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780198866930
An avalanche may be defined as the destabilization and flow of part of the snow cover. The book essentially deals with the former, focusing on avalanche triggering mechanisms. Avalanche triggering mechanisms have been debated for a long time. The book provides the reader with a re-foundation on clear scientific bases.
Author : Roland Dumont
Publisher : Editions Quae
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 2876146320
A study of yam domestication practices among smallholders has provided an insight into how farmers exploit wild plant genetic resources so as to adapt them to agriculture. This book describes the domestication operations leading to Dioscorea rotundata yams in Africa. The biodiversity of these yams and of their wild relatives is investigated, and the authors put forward hypotheses to explain the phenotypic changes resulting from smallholder practices. These hypotheses could be possible lines of research for breeders.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Avalanches
ISBN : UIUC:30112027281317
Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Committee on Ground Failure Hazards Mitigation Research
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1990-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309043359
The present mortality as a result of snow avalanches exceeds the average mortality caused by earthquakes as well as all other forms of slope failure combined. Snow avalanches can range from small amounts of loose snow moving rapidly down a slope to slab avalanches, in which large chunks of snow break off and destroy everything in their path. Although considered a hazard in the United States since the westward expansion in the nineteenth century, in modern times snow avalanches are an increasing concern in recreational mountainous areas. However, programs for snow avalanche hazard mitigation in other countries are far ahead of those in the United States. The book identifies several steps that should be taken by the United States in order to establish guidelines for research, technology transfer, and avalanche legislation and zoning.
Author : Malcolm Mellor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Avalanches
ISBN : IND:30000090298294
Author : Nirmal K. Sinha,Shoma Sinha
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781119420484
ENGINEERING PHYSICS OF HIGH-TEMPERATURE MATERIALS Discover a comprehensive exploration of high temperature materials written by leading materials scientists In Engineering Physics of High-Temperature Materials: Metals, Ice, Rocks, and Ceramics distinguished researchers and authors Nirmal K. Sinha and Shoma Sinha deliver a rigorous and wide-ranging discussion of the behavior of different materials at high temperatures. The book discusses a variety of physical phenomena, from plate tectonics and polar sea ice to ice-age and intraglacial depression and the postglacial rebound of Earth’s crust, stress relaxation at high temperatures, and microstructure and crack-enhanced Elasto Delayed Elastic Viscous (EDEV) models. At a very high level, Engineering Physics of High-Temperature Materials (EPHTM) takes a multidisciplinary view of the behavior of materials at temperatures close to their melting point. The volume particularly focuses on a powerful model called the Elasto-Delayed-Elastic-Viscous (EDEV) model that can be used to study a variety of inorganic materials ranging from snow and ice, metals, including complex gas-turbine engine materials, as well as natural rocks and earth formations (tectonic processes). It demonstrates how knowledge gained in one field of study can have a strong impact on other fields. Engineering Physics of High-Temperature Materials will be of interest to a broad range of specialists, including earth scientists, volcanologists, cryospheric and interdisciplinary climate scientists, and solid-earth geophysicists. The book demonstrates that apparently dissimilar polycrystalline materials, including metals, alloys, ice, rocks, ceramics, and glassy materials, all behave in a surprisingly similar way at high temperatures. This similarity makes the information contained in the book valuable to all manner of physical scientists. Readers will also benefit from the inclusion of: A thorough introduction to the importance of a unified model of high temperature material behavior, including high temperature deformation and the strength of materials An exploration of the nature of crystalline substances for engineering applications, including basic materials classification, solid state materials, and general physical principles Discussions of forensic physical materialogy and test techniques and test systems Examinations of creep fundamentals, including rheology and rheological terminology, and phenomenological creep failure models Perfect for materials scientists, metallurgists, and glaciologists, Engineering Physics of High-Temperature Materials: Metals, Ice, Rocks, and Ceramics will also earn a place in the libraries of specialists in the nuclear, chemical, and aerospace industries with an interest in the physics and engineering of high-temperature materials.
Author : Jack Pinkowski
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-22
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781420058635
Record breaking hurricane seasons, tornados, tsunamis, earthquakes, and intentional acts of mass-casualty violence, give lie to the delusion that disasters are the anomaly and not the norm. Disaster management is rooted in the fundamental belief that we can protect ourselves. Even if we cannot control all the causes, we can prepare and respond. We
Author : Henry S. Santeford,James LeRoy Smith
Publisher : National Academies
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1974-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : NAP:00329
Author : Wilfried Haeberli,Colin Whiteman
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780128171301
Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, Second Edition, provides you with the latest scientific developments in sea level rise, permafrost degradation, rock/ice avalanches, glacier surges, glacial lake outburst floods, ice shelf collapses, climate change implications, causality, impacts, preparedness and mitigation. The book takes a geo-scientific approach to the topic while also covering current thinking about directly related social scientific issues that can affect ecosystems and global economies. Special emphasis is placed on the rapidly progressing effects from global warming on the cryosphere, perspectives for the future and latest scientific advances, and technological developments. Presents the latest research on causality, glacial surges, ice-shelf collapses, sea level rise, climate change implications, and more Contains numerous tables, maps, diagrams, illustrations and photographs of hazardous processes Features new insights on the implications of climate change, including increased melting, collapsing, flooding, methane emissions, and sea level rise
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Glaciology
ISBN : UCSD:31822009558818
Author : Lee Thompson,Marial Shea
Publisher : Bruce Kay
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780994892904
What are our survival odds in avalanche country? Author Bruce Kay explores this puzzle in Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose. Drawing from the experiences of his peers and his own 35 years as a climber, skier and avalanche professional, Kay explains why avalanche country demands a unique mindset of managing risk by consideration of the unknown as much as the known. He explores related topics, including: - The Siren Song of Culture - Intuition and Bias - what is the difference? - Optimism and Luck - do we roll the dice or calculate risk? - The Expert Illusion - Strategic Mindset Using the work of Ian McCammon, Gary Klein and the Nobel Prize winning Kahnemen, Kay shows how the avalanche problem is nearly perfectly designed to produce errors in judgement, yet still provide opportunity for solution. This is brought to life using case studies and adrenaline - pumping stories from fellow professionals and recreationists. He warns that his book may at times "demand a bit more of the reader than the average ski video," but if truly interested in surviving to ski another day, this book is for you.
Author : Laurent Godet,Simon Dufour,Anne-Julia Rollet
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786308887
The Anthropocene era has been marked by such significant human pressure that it has led to the sixth mass extinction. The Baseline Concept in Biodiversity Conservation interprets human domination of the Earth as the process of gradual landscape change, the execution of which is neither linear nor homogeneous. This book is structured around three key questions: Where and when did everything go wrong? How do we define baseline states for biodiversity conservation strategies? How are reference states mobilized in a concrete way through case studies? Today, biodiversity conservation faces a dilemma that this book sheds light on: return to states less modified by humans than today but in a world that has changed significantly; or, let the nature of tomorrow express itself where it still can but without a road map.
