World of Reading
Author : P. David Pearson
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 12,17 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Readers
ISBN : 9780663461196
Author : P. David Pearson
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 12,17 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Readers
ISBN : 9780663461196
Author : Peter Janssen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 38,21 MB
Release : 2004-10-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521465400
This book was published in 2004. The Interaction of Ocean Waves and Wind describes in detail the two-way interaction between wind and ocean waves and shows how ocean waves affect weather forecasting on timescales of 5 to 90 days. Winds generate ocean waves, but at the same time airflow is modified due to the loss of energy and momentum to the waves; thus, momentum loss from the atmosphere to the ocean depends on the state of the waves. This volume discusses ocean wave evolution according to the energy balance equation. An extensive overview of nonlinear transfer is given, and as a by-product the role of four-wave interactions in the generation of extreme events, such as freak waves, is discussed. Effects on ocean circulation are described. Coupled ocean-wave, atmosphere modelling gives improved weather and wave forecasts. This volume will interest ocean wave modellers, physicists and applied mathematicians, and engineers interested in shipping and coastal protection.
Author : Jack Higgins
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 20,30 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 000727422X
Gun runner and occasional smuggler Mark Hagen, hears a scream through the fog. He finds a girl. Before long he is hauled into a chaotic chase involving The Red Chinese, and a lot of gold. From feeling he had lost everything to suddenly fighting for his life, Hagen must battle his inner demons and some truly terrifying enemies.
Author : I.R. Young
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 40,36 MB
Release : 1999-03-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080543804
The goals of wind wave research are relatively well defined: to be able to predict the wind wave field and its effect on the environment. That environment could be natural (beaches, the atmosphere etc.) or imposed by human endeavour (ports, harbours, coastal settlements etc.). Although the goals are similar, the specific requirements of these various fields differ considerably. This book attempts to summarise the current state of this knowledge and to place this understanding into a common frame work. It attempts to take a balanced approach between the pragmatic engineering view of requiring a short term result and the scientific quest for detailed understanding. Thus, it attempts to provide a rigorous description of the physical processes involved as well as practical predictive tools.
Author : David Houghton
Publisher : Fernhurst Books Limited
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 48,65 MB
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1909911852
The wind powers everything a sailor does and this book will help you to understand it. As a result you will be more prepared for your race, able to anticipate changes in the wind better and know what to do when they come. The first edition of this book was published in 1986, and it has been the go-to wind book for dinghy champions ever since. This new-look fourth edition is fully updated for modern forecasting and analyses a revised set of popular racing venues around the world: unveiling what to expect from the weather at over 25 regatta locations, it will get you ahead of the competition and powering up the leaderboard.
Author : Rachel Carson
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 35,96 MB
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Under the Sea-wind" by Rachel Carson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Gerald Warner Brace
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,52 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Collection of experiences, descriptions, and recollections of life along and near the New England coast.
Author : Rachel Carson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,93 MB
Release : 2021-12-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1598537059
Pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson explores the wonders of the Earth's oceans in these classics of American science and nature writing. Rachel Carson is perhaps most famous as the author of Silent Spring, but she was first and foremost a "poet of the sea" and the three books collected in this deluxe Library of America volume are classics of American science and nature writing. Under the Sea-Wind (1941), Carson's lyrical debut, offers an intimate account of maritime ecology through the eyes of three of the ocean's denizens, the individual lives of sanderling, mackerel, and eel dramatically intertwined in the enduring ebb and flow of the tides. The Sea Around Us (1951)--a winner of the National Book Award--draws on a wealth of oceanographic, meteorological, biological, and historical research to present its subject on a grand, biospheric scale, revealing not only many mysteries of the still-unfathomed depths, but a reverence for the sea as a source of global climate and of life itself. Concluding Carson's "sea trilogy," The Edge of the Sea (1955) explores the habits of the many small creatures that live on shorelines and in tidepools accessible to any beachcomber: part identification guide, part hymn to ecological complexity, it is a book that conveys the "sense of wonder" in nature for which Carson is justly celebrated. At a moment when overfishing, pollution, and global warming are causing catastrophic changes to marine environments worldwide, Carson's lyrically detailed accounts of these environments offer a timely reminder of their beauty, fragility, and immense consequence for human life.
Author : W. T. Tinsley
Publisher :
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 1856
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Ian S. F. Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 24,39 MB
Release : 2001-09-24
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0521662435
A comprehensive 2001 volume for researchers and graduate students in oceanography, meteorology, fluid dynamics and coastal engineering.