This is the first book specifically designed to offer the student a smooth transitionary course between elementary fluid dynamics (which gives only last-minute attention to turbulence) and the professional literature on turbulent flow, where an advanced viewpoint is assumed.
An interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of living matter, from prehistoric hunting to modern energy production.
Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
by Paul N. Edwards
ISBN: 9780262518635
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: February 8, 2013
The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to model its future.
A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look at global changes that may occur over the next fifty years—whether sudden and cataclysmic world-changing events or gradually unfolding trends.
Edited by Stephen H. Schneider, James R. Miller, Eileen Crist and Penelope J. Boston
Foreword by Pedro Ruiz Torres
Introduction by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis
ISBN: 9780262693691
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: August 29, 2008
Scientists Debate Gaia is a multidisciplinary reexamination of the Gaia hypothesis, which was introduced by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis in the early 1970s. The Gaia hypothesis holds that Earth's...
Edited by Mark R. Handy, Greg Hirth and Niels Hovius
With Gloria Custance
ISBN: 9780262083621
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: May 11, 2007
Scientists examine tectonic faulting on all scales—from seismic fault slip to the formation of mountain ranges—and discuss its connection to a wide range of global phenomena, including long-term climate change and evolution.
This book, complete with exercises and ANN algorithms, illustrates how ANNs can be used in solving problems in environmental engineering and the geosciences, and provides the necessary tools to get started using these elegant and efficient new techniques.
Edited by Stephen H. Schneider and Penelope J. Boston
ISBN: 9780262691604
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: January 29, 1993
The Gaia hypothesis suggests that life is an active participant in shaping the physical and chemical environment on which it depends. Scientists on Gaia is a multidisciplinary exploration of this controversial...
