Temple University Press, 2005. — 284 p. — ISBN: 1-59213-153-0. John Agnew is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author or co-author of Place and Politics, The United States in the World Economy, The Geography of theWorld Economy, Geopolitics, and Place and Politics in Modern Italy, among other titles, as well as the coeditor of...
Elsevier, 2014. — 809 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-386888-6. Subsea pipelines are used for a number of purposes in the development of subsea hydrocarbon resources as shown in Figure 1.1. A pipeline system can be a single-pipe pipeline system, pipeinpipe or bundled system. Normally, the term of subsea flow-lines is used to describe the subsea pipelines carrying oil and gas products from...
Pearson Education Limited, 2001. — 24 p. The "Heinemann Mathematics" scheme has been developed by the authors of the primary course "SPMG", with the aim of building on established strengths to provide a structured development of children's mathematical knowledge and skills within the revised curricula. Scottish Heinemann Maths is written specifically for Scotland to help...
Pearson Education Limited, 2002. — 24 p. The "Heinemann Mathematics" scheme has been developed by the authors of the primary course "SPMG", with the aim of building on established strengths to provide a structured development of children's mathematical knowledge and skills within the revised curricula. Scottish Heinemann Maths is written specifically for Scotland to help...
Heinemann Secondary Education, 2002. — 96 p. Content Number in 100 thousand Addition Subtraction Addition and Subtraction beyond 1000 Multiplication Division Money Fractions Decimals Number properties Length Weight Capacity Area Measure Time 2D shape 3D shape Position, movement and angle Data handling The "Heinemann Mathematics" scheme has been developed by the authors of the...
Heinemann, 2003. — 54 p. The "Heinemann Mathematics" scheme has been developed by the authors of the primary course "SPMG", with the aim of building on established strengths to provide a structured development of children's mathematical knowledge and skills within the revised curricula. Scottish Heinemann Maths is written specifically for Scotland to help implement the...
Heinemann, 2003. — 128 p. Content Number in millions Addition Subtraction Addition and Subtraction beyond 1000 Multiplication Division Number properties Fractions Decimals Percentages Time Length Weight Volume/Capacity Area 2D shape 3D shape Position, movement and angle Data handling The "Heinemann Mathematics" scheme has been developed by the authors of the primary course...
Heinemann, 2004. — 128 p. Content Place value Addition Subtraction Multiplication Division Number properties Fractions Decimals Percentages Problem solveing and enquiry Weight Length Time Volume/Capacity Measure Area 3D shape 2D shape Position, movement and angle Data handling The "Heinemann Mathematics" scheme has been developed by the authors of the primary course "SPMG",...
Elsevier, 2000. — 496 p. The book aims to cover in a unitary way both the deterministic and statistical topics of the mechanics of sea waves. Furthermore, it aims to highlight some recent progress on the dynamics of random wind-generated waves and on long-term wave statistics. Finally, it aims to give a fresh approach to traditional concepts. The text is intended for researchers...
Springer, 2015. — 322 pp. — ISBN: 978-3-319-05496-4. This book divides Antarctica into eight ice-free regions and provides information on the soils of each region. Soils have been studied in Antarctica for nearly 100 years. Although only 0.35% (45,000 km2) of Antarctica is ice-free, its weathered, unconsolidated material qualify as “soils”. Soils of Antarctica is richly...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 277 pp. — ISBN: 978-0-521-88082-4 How did the global climate change issues emerge? The issue of human-induced global climate change became a major environmental concern during the twentieth century. In response to growing concern about human-induced global climate change, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was formed in...
Moscow: Sea Technology Institute, 1997. — 8 с. The P.P. Shirshov lnstitute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (formerly of the USSR Academy of Sciences) was estabished on January 31, 1946. The lnstitute of Oceanology is а large scientific centre with total staff of тоге than 2,000 scientists, engineers and sailors, including 109 doctors of sciences and 332 Ph.D....
Blackwell Science, 2005. — 342 p. — ISBN10: 0-632-05984-2. The construction of marine pipelines is a relatively new field of engineering, having developed in the course of the last five decades. Yet, with more than 100 000 km of subsea lines installed worldwide it must be regarded as a mature technology, although advances continue in extending the limits as regards pipe...
Springer, 1987. — 435 p. The book is not intended as a state-of-the-art work. It does not attempt to include all past or recent scientific works on the related subjects. Only the relevant subjects that help designers or students of off shore engineering to understand the hydrodynamic principles have been included here. Mathematical background Introduction to offshore structures...
World Scientific, 1994. — 470 p. — Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering. Volume 9 Model testing has been performed through the history of mankind . Systematic hydraulic scale model testing goes back to the nineteenth century. However , even today modeling is partly an art as well as a science . In modeling, certain laws of similarity are followed. Several text books are...
Thomas Telford, 2010. — 520 p. Interest in the construction and development of offshore structures is increasing for several reasons. Demand for hydrocarbons makes offshore oil and gas commercially attractive. Increasing interest in renewable energy has made offshore wind farms attractive, and wave, current, and tidal energy systems will soon be financially viable. And...
World Scientific, 2000. — 353 pp. Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering. Volume 2. This book is intended as an introduction to classical water wave theory for the college senior or first year graduate student. The material is self-contained; almost all mathematical and engineering concepts are presented or derived in the text, thus making the book accessible to practicing...
New York - Oxford - London - Paris: Pergamon Press, 1961. — 729 pp. The Ocean The sea-water and its physical and chemical propoties Temperature in the ocean. The three-dimensional distribution and its variation in time The salinity of the ocean, its variation in oceanic space and in time The density of water masses in the ocean, vertical and horizonal density distribution and...
New York - Oxford - London - Paris: Pergamon Press, 1961. — 598 pp. General remarks on waves Theory of short and long waves Observation and measurements of ocean waves Generation, growth and propagation of waves Shallow water wave transformation through external factors Long waves in canals and standing waves in entirely of partly closed basins Principal features of tidal...
Elsevier, 2001. — 651 pp. Data Analysis Method in Physical Oceanography is a practical reference guide to established and modern data analysis technique in earth and ocean sciences. Intended for both students and established scientists the five major chapter of the book cover data acquisition and recording, data processing and presentation statistical methods and error...
Pegasus Communication, 1970. — 285 p.— ISBN: 1-883823-39-0. The problems of our aging urban areas are examined here by using recently developed methods for understanding complex social systems. The plight of our older cities is today the social problem of greatest domestic visibility and public concern. In this book the nature of the urban problem, its causes, and possible...
World Scientific, 2000. — 443 pp. Advanced Series on Ocean Engineering. Volume 15. The objective of this book is twofold: to provide practicing engineers with design tools to deal with random seas (Part I), and to serve as a textbook of random wave theory for graduate students (Part II) Statistical propoties and definitions of representative waves Transformation and deformation...
Heinemann educational, 1995. — 96 p. Content Number Measure Shape and handling data The "Heinemann Mathematics" scheme has been developed by the authors of the primary course "SPMG", with the aim of building on established strengths to provide a structured development of children's mathematical knowledge and skills within the revised curricula.
Heinemann, 1995. — 126 p. Content Number Measure Shape Handling data The "Heinemann Mathematics" scheme has been developed by the authors of the primary course "SPMG", with the aim of building on established strengths to provide a structured development of children's mathematical knowledge and skills within the revised curricula. Scottish Heinemann Maths is written specifically...
Heinemann, 1995. — 126 p. The "Heinemann Mathematics" scheme has been developed by the authors of the primary course "SPMG", with the aim of building on established strengths to provide a structured development of children's mathematical knowledge and skills within the revised curricula. Scottish Heinemann Maths is written specifically for Scotland to help implement the...
Heinemann, 1991. — 155 p. The "Heinemann Mathematics" scheme has been developed by the authors of the primary course "SPMG", with the aim of building on established strengths to provide a structured development of children's mathematical knowledge and skills within the revised curricula. Scottish Heinemann Maths is written specifically for Scotland to help implement the...
University of North Carolina Asheville: Department of Atmospheric Sciences, 2008. — 147 p. As the title suggests, this course packet is geared towards students who have had little or no experience to tropical meteorology. However, it is assumed that students have knowledge of basic Calculus, physics, and have taken at least a couple of fundamental meteorology courses. It is...
Springer, 2004. — 280 pp. — ISBN: 978-3-642-62329-5 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Satellite Altimetry, a joint workshop of lAG Section III Special Study Group SSG3.186 and lAG Section II, September 8-13, 2002, Wuhan, China Geodetic Applications of Satellite Altimetry (W. Bosch) Present-day Sea Level Rise : from Satellite and in Situ Observations to Physical...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 231 pp. This book grew out of a module on 'Operational Forecasting Systems and Applications', which is part of the University of Reading MSc in Applied Meteorology. Introduction The Nature of the Weather Forecasting Problem Meteorological Observations NWP Models - the Basic Principles Designing Operational NWP Systems The Role of the Human Forecaster...
London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1921. — 206 pp. he first textbook in English on oceanography, and offering a summary of what was known of the seas at the time and then-current theories of how the seas come to be as they are. Green cloth-covered boards, black titles to front board and spine, 206 pages plus three pages of publisher's advertisements/catalogue. Frontispiece (map...
Статья. Science — 1938. — Vol. 89 — No 2250. — p. 119-123. В статье описаны опыты автора по наблюдению за новым типом дрейфовой циркуляции вод, получившей в последствии название вихрей Лангмюра.
Routledge, 2015. — 169 p. — ISBN: 978-1-138-80093-9. Introduction: heteroglossia in the Asia Pacific A quasi-colonial context: an imprint of decolonisation Hong Kong: becoming culture Singapore: speaking culture Taiwan: in-between culture When the otherness becomes selfness: urban Taiwan’s transformation Theorising urban architecture for the Asia Pacific A paradigm of the...
Article. — Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. — 1957. — Vol. 53. — Part 1. — pp. 230-233 In a recent paper (Longuet-Higgins. Statistical Properties of a Moving Wave-Form, 1956) expressions were found for the statistical distributions of the velocities of the zero-crossings and of the MAXIMA and minima of a random moving wave-form. In the present note it will be...
Article. — Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. — 1956. — Vol. 52. — Part 2. — pp. 234-245. Many of the statistical properties of a random noise function f(t) have been derived by Rice; for example, the mean frequency of zero crossings and the statistical distribution of MAXIMA and minima. These distributions have been shown to apply quite accurately to physical...
Article. — Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences. — 1957. — Vol. 250. — No. 975. — pp. 157- 174. A number of statistical properties of a random, moving surface are obtained in the special case when the surface is Gaussian and isotropic. The results may be stated with special simplicity for a ‘ring' spectrum when the...
Article. — Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences. — 1957. — Vol. 249. — No. 966. — pp. 321-387 The following statistical properties are derived for a random, moving, Gaussian surface: (1) the probability distribution of the surface elevation and of the magnitude and orientation of the gradient; (2) the average...
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1855. — 275 pp. The Gulf Stream Influence of the Gulf Stream upon climate The atmosphere Red fogs and sea dust On the probable relation between magnetism and the circulataion of the atmosphere Current of the sea The open sea in the Arctic Ocean The salts of the sea The equatorial cloud-ring On the geological agency of the winds The depth...
4th ed. — Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1991. — 330 р. Historical Setting The Society and Its Environment The Economy. Government and Politics National Security
4th ed. — Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1992. — 282 р. Historical Setting The Society and Its Environment The Economy. Government and Politics National Security
Springer, 2016. — 192 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-32083-0 The Urban Book Series is a resource for urban studies and geography research worldwide. It provides a unique and innovative resource for the latest developments in the field, nurturing a comprehensive and encompassing publication venue for urban studies, urban geography, planning and regional development. he series publishes...
American Institute of Physics, 1992. — 520 pp. Historically, the study of the atmosphere and oceans, our human environment, together with the study of our broader celestial environment of the sun, moon, and planets, provided the initial impetus to develop the field of physics. In more recent times astronomy, with its new discoveries, has expanded the scope of physics into its...
Gordon Tisher, 2017. — 109 p. Original Edition: Laszlo Polgar: Nevelj zsenit! (Budapest 1989) Mysteries of Pedagogical Experiments Education is Also Possible This Way Chess The Meaning of the Whole Thing
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 327 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-11128-7 A Region in Turmoil The ‘War of Liberation’ Massacre of the Rwandan Refugees The Fall of the Mobutist State Congo: Waiting for Another War Impasse in Rwanda and Burundi ‘The First African World War’ Negotiating the Transition
Springer, 2008. — 367 pp. — ISBN: 978-3-540-78427-2 The author has sought to incorporate in the book some of the fundamental concepts and principles of the physics and dynamics of the atmosphere, a knowledge and understanding of which should help an average student of science to comprehend some of the great complexities of the earth-atmosphere system, in which a threeway...
3th ed. — Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1995. — 366 р. — (Area handbook series). — ISBN 0-8444-0832-8. A landlocked nation in the center of the Southeast Asian peninsula, the country that is now the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR, or Laos), is bordered by Cambodia, China, Burma, Thailand, and Vietnam (only Cambodia is smaller), neighbors which, to varying...
The National Academies press, 2011. — 520 p. — ISBN: 978-0-309-21901-3 Through direct exploration of the subseafloor, U.S.-supported scientific ocean drilling programs have significantly contributed to a broad range of scientific accomplishments in Earth science disciplines, shaping understanding of Earth systems and enabling new fields of inquiry. Scientific Ocean Drilling:...
Springer, 2009. — 443 p. — ISBN: 978-3-540-89331-8 Stochastic processes are mathematical models of random phenomena that evolve according to prescribed dynamics. Processes commonly used in applications are Markov chains in discrete and continuous time, renewal and regenerative processes, Poisson processes, and Brownian motion. This volume gives an in-depth description of the...
Springer, 2009. — 384 p. — (Environmental Science and Engineering). Crop Responses to Elevated Carbon Dioxide and Temperature (Mirwais M. Qaderi and David M. Reid) Climate Change, Climate Variability and Indian Agriculture: Impacts Vulnerability and Adaptation Strategies (Shakeel A. Khan, Sanjeev Kumar, M.Z. Hussain and N. Kalra) Simulation Studies to Characterize the Impact of...
ThomasTelford, 1997. — 249 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7277-2584-X Properties of water and sand Currents Waves Combined waves and currents Threshold of motion Bed features Suspended sediment Bedload transport Total load transport Morphodynamics and scour Handling the wave-current climate Case studies
Prentice-Hall, 1942. — 246 pp. Up to the present time, no adequate book has existed from which a meteorologist could readily obtain information as to findings in physical oceanography that have bearing upon problems of the atmosphere. Nor has any text been available that, besides describing the methods used in physical oceanography, also contained a summary of our present...