This leading dictionary - now in its fourth edition - offers wide-ranging and authoritative coverage of the earth sciences and related topics in over 7,500 clear and accessible entries. Coverage inclu ... Read more
Over 10,000 fully revised and updated definitions offer coverage on all areas of geology and earth sciences
Includes more than 650 new entries, with extended coverage of planetary geology and ear ... Read more
An authoritative and wide-ranging new edition of A Dictionary of Weather containing almost 2,000 entries on all areas of the subject. Provides clear definitions and illustrative examples of terminolo ... Read more
Eric Blayo; Marc Bocquet; Emmanuel Cosme; Leticia F. Cugliandolo
Pages
608 Pages
Format
Hardcover
Size
186 x 254 mm
Pub date
Nov 2014
Series
Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School
Data assimilation aims at determining as accurately as possible the state of a dynamical system by combining heterogeneous sources of information in an optimal way. Generally speaking, the mathematica ... Read more
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The Antarctic continent carries the greatest diversity of lake environments on the planet: freshwater and saline lakes, tidal freshwater epishelf lakes, lakes on ice shelves and glacier surfaces, and ... Read more
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The Antarctic continent carries the greatest diversity of lake environments on the planet: freshwater and saline lakes, tidal freshwater epishelf lakes, lakes on ice shelves and glacier surfaces, and ... Read more
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Describes the ways in which humanity has left its mark on the Earth, from pollution and the use of fossil fuels to mass extinctions
Offers an up to date synthesis of the science of the Anthropoce ... Read more
This is the first full biography of Charles Williams (1886-1945), an extraordinary and controversial figure who was a central member of the Inklings-the group of Oxford writers that included C.S. Lewi ... Read more
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Fully updated for 2014 to include the latest scientific findings on climate change
Makes sense of how and why climate change is happening
Explains why it is so controversial - a combination of ... Read more
A wide-ranging look at all aspects of the global climate system
Discusses the relationship and differences between climate and weather
Looks at the origins of our modern climate system, as well ... Read more
