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A Voyage Through Scales

Author : Günter Blöschl

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 16,64 MB

Release : 2015

Category : Earth (Planet)

ISBN : 9783901753848

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Book Description

Zoom into a cloud. Zoom out of a rock. Watch the volcano explode, the lightning strike, an aurora undulate. Imagine ice sheets expanding, retreating - pulsating - while continents continue their leisurely collisions. Everywhere there are structures within structures... within structures. A Voyage Through Scales is an invitation to contemplate the earth's extraordinary variability, from changes in milliseconds to geologic time scales, from microns to the size of the planet. The range of scales in space, in time - in space-time - is truly mind boggling. Their complexity challenges our ability to measure, to model, to comprehend. Join us on this odyssey. Contents: Up into the Sky; Biogeosciences connecting Earth's spheres from microscopic to global scales; Scales in Atmospheric Remote Sensing Instruments; Beautiful Geometries Underlying Ocean Nonlinear Processes; Ocean Science; Soil: a journey through time and space; From microscopic ice crystals to global ice ages.



A Voyage Through Turbulence

Author : Peter A. Davidson

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 451 pages

File Size : 29,94 MB

Release : 2011-09-08

Category : Science

ISBN : 1139502042

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Turbulence is widely recognized as one of the outstanding problems of the physical sciences, but it still remains only partially understood despite having attracted the sustained efforts of many leading scientists for well over a century. In A Voyage Through Turbulence we are transported through a crucial period of the history of the subject via biographies of twelve of its great personalities, starting with Osborne Reynolds and his pioneering work of the 1880s. This book will provide absorbing reading for every scientist, mathematician and engineer interested in the history and culture of turbulence, as background to the intense challenges that this universal phenomenon still presents.







Voyage Through Time

Author : Ahmed H. Zewail

Publisher : World Scientific

Page : 360 pages

File Size : 16,7 MB

Release : 2002

Category : Science

ISBN : 9789812564474

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From a beginning in an Egyptian delta town and the port of Alexandriato the scenic vistas of sunny southern California, Ahmed Zewail takesus on a voyage through time his own life and the split-secondworld of the femtosecond. In this endearing expos(r) of his life andwork until his receipt of the Nobel Prize in 1999, he draws lessonsfrom his life story so far, and he meditates on the impact which therevolution in science has had on our modern world in bothdeveloped and developing countries.





A Voyage into the Levant

Author : Joseph Pitton de Tournefort

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 529 pages

File Size : 31,96 MB

Release : 2014-05-22

Category : History

ISBN : 1108075231

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A two-volume account, published in French in 1717 and translated in 1718, of a scientific voyage to the Black Sea.



A Voyage to Surat in the Year 1689

Author : John Ovington

Publisher : Asian Educational Services

Page : 354 pages

File Size : 22,3 MB

Release : 1994

Category : History

ISBN : 9788120609457

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Giving A Large Account Of The City And Its Inhabitants And Of The English Factory There. With A Foreword By H.G. Rawlinson.





A Voyage to South America

Author : Antonio de Ulloa

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 537 pages

File Size : 32,95 MB

Release : 2011-06-12

Category : History

ISBN : 1108031684

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Book Description

Antonio de Ulloa (1716-95) was a Spanish scientist who joined the French geodesic mission to South America between 1735 and 1744. These volumes contain the English translation of his description of South America (first published in 1758), in the fourth edition of 1806.