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UNINA9910781081703321 |
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Autore |
Lim Chjan C. <1959-> |
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Vortex dynamics, statistical mechanics, and planetary atmospheres [[electronic resource] /] / Chjan C. Lim, Xueru Ding, Joseph Nebus |
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Hackensack, NJ, : World Scientific, c2009 |
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1-282-44265-1 |
9786612442650 |
981-283-914-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Planets - Atmospheres - Statistical methods |
Planets - Atmospheres - Mathematical models |
Vortex-motion - Statistical methods |
Vortex-motion - Mathematical models |
Monte Carlo method |
Fluid dynamics |
Statistical mechanics |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-206) and index. |
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Preface; Contents; 1. Planets and Inspiration; 2. Barotropic and Shallow-Water Models; 3. Dynamic Equilibria of the Barotropic Model - Variational Approach; 4. Statistical Mechanics; 5. The Monte Carlo Approach; 6. Phase Transitions in Energy-Relative Enstrophy Models; 7. Extremal Free Energy in the Mean-Field Theory; 8. Phase Transitions of Barotropic Flow; 9. Phase Transitions to Super-Rotation - Exact Closed-Form Solutions; 10. The Shallow-Water Models - High Energy, Cyclonic Solutions; 11. The Shallow-Water Model - Low-Energy Solutions; Bibliography; Index |
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Vortex Dynamics, Statistical Mechanics, and Planetary Atmospheres introduces the reader with a background in either fluid mechanics or statistical mechanics to the modeling of planetary atmospheres by barotropic and shallow-water models. These potent models are |
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introduced in both analytical and numerical treatments highlighting the ways both approaches inform and enlighten the other. This book builds on Vorticity, Statistical Mechanics, and Monte Carlo Simulations by Lim and Nebus in providing a rare introduction to this intersection of research fields. While the book reaches the cutting edge |
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UNINA9910789948303321 |
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Autore |
Villar Oliver |
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Titolo |
Cocaine, death squads, and the war on terror [[electronic resource] ] : U.S. imperialism and class struggle in Colombia / / Oliver Villar and Drew Cottle |
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New York, : Monthly Review Press, 2011 |
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1-58367-308-3 |
1-58367-307-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (273 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Drug control - United States |
Cocaine industry - Colombia |
Social conflict - Colombia |
United States Foreign economic relations Colombia |
Colombia Foreign economic relations United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION: A War of Many Wars; 1. From Coca to Cocaine; 2. From the Golden Triangle to the Crystal Triangle; 3. A Narco-State and a Narco-Economy; 4. The Narco-Cartel System (1980-1993); 5. The Post-Cartel System; 6. The United States and "Plan Colombia"; 7. Narco-State Terror; 8. The Consequences of Relocation and Regionalization; 9. The War on Drugs: Corporatization and Privatization; 10. Conclusion: U.S. Narco-Colonialism and Colombia; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NOTES; INDEX; |
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Since the late 1990's, the United States has funneled billions of dollars in aid to Colombia, ostensibly to combat the illicit drug trade and State |
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Department-designated terrorist groups. The result has been a spiral of violence that continues to take lives and destabilize Colombian society. This book asks an obvious question: are the official reasons given for the wars on drugs and terror in Colombia plausible, or are there other, deeper factors at work? Scholars Villar and Cottle suggest that the answers lie in a close examination of the cocaine trade, particularly its class dimensions. |
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UNINA9910299404703321 |
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Autore |
Moraru Constantin |
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Titolo |
Analysis of Hydrogeochemical Vulnerability / / by Constantin Moraru, Robyn Hannigan |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018 |
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[1st ed. 2018.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XVI, 171 p. 113 illus., 69 illus. in color.) |
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Springer Hydrogeology, , 2364-6454 |
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Hydrogeology |
Water quality |
Water - Pollution |
Physical geography |
Environmental sciences |
Public health |
Environmental geology |
Water Quality/Water Pollution |
Earth System Sciences |
Environmental Science and Engineering |
Public Health |
Geoecology/Natural Processes |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Overview of groundwater vulnerability assessment methods -- |
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Geochemical method of the groundwater vulnerability assessment -- Basic principles of hydrogeology for hydrogeochemical vulnerability -- Environmental settings of study territories -- Hydrogeochemical vulnerability estimation -- Groundwater geochemistry and vulnerability. |
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This monograph instructs the reader on how to analyze the hydrogeochemical vulnerability. It introduces notions of geochemical signals, points of migration of pollutants in the unsaturated zone, and new hydrogeochemical classifications. Three test sites in the USA, Germany, and Moldova are described as case studies accompanied by illustrative data. The authors presuppose for future readers only the background mathematics and elementary knowledge of hydrogeology. The presented methodology is both for local and regional assessments. It is simple, does not need implication of high qualification specialists and can be applied to test the groundwater quality. The book is useful for undergraduate, graduate, master, and PhD students as well as water quality specialists, ecologists and geology professionals. |
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