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In this engrossing and accessible book, Doug Macdougall explores the causes and effects of ice ages that have gripped our planet throughout its history, from the earliest known glaciation - nearly three billion years ago - to the present. Following the development of scientific ideas about these dramatic events, Macdougall traces the lives of many of the brilliant and intriguing characters who have contributed to the evolving understanding of how ice ages come about. As it explains how the great...

With the Earth's atmosphere increasingly being used as a convenient sink for myriad pollutants, humanity faces the daunting problem of conserving a vital resource which, like the oceans, outer space and Antarctica, defies geographical boundary. In ""The Endangered Atmosphere"", Marvin S. Soroos considers how this resource is being altered and degraded by a rapidly growing and industrializing human population and what is being done to preserve its essential qualities. Soroos describes the atmosph...

This reference (G-003A) provides guidelines for selecting atmospheric models for engineering design or atmospheric research. Thirty atmospheric models for altitudes from Earth surface to 2500 kilometres are described in detail, with information such as the technical basis of each.

The 30 scientific papers that make up this text consider techniques used in laser radar ranging and atmospheric lidar.

This volume highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications in bituminous materials and structures and asphalt pavement technology, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the RILEM International Symposium on Bituminous Materials (ISBM), held in Lyon, France on December 14-16, 2020. The symposium represents a joint effort of three RILEM Technical Committees from Cluster F: 264-RAP "Asphalt Pavement Recycling", 272-PIM "Phase and Interphase Behaviour of Bi...

This book presents in a concise way the Mie theory and its current applications. It begins with an overview of current theories, computational methods, experimental techniques, and applications of optics of small particles. There is also some biographic information on Gustav Mie, who published his famous paper on the colour of Gold colloids in 1908. The Mie solution for the light scattering of small spherical particles set the basis for more advanced scattering theories and today there are many...

Die Geschichte des Bergbaus, das Leben der Bergleute, der Wandel der Harzer Industrielandschaft und die Entwicklung der Bergbautechnik werden in einem allgemeinen Teil ausfuhrlich beschrieben. Ein regionaler Teil stellt die wichtigsten Harzer Bergbaureviere sowie deren Geschichte vor und unterbreitet zahlreiche Vorschlage fur eigene Exkursionen. Informationen uber alte Grubenreviere, Besucherbergwerke, Museen und sonstige Sehenswurdigkeiten, ein kleines bergmannisches ABC sowie eine Zusammenstel...