EAN: 9783319879758

AIR AND WATER - RENÉ MOREAU KARTONIERT (TB)

Air and water are so familiar that we all think we know them. Yet how difficult it remains to
predict their behavior  with so many questions butting against the limits of our knowledge. How
are cyclones  tornadoes  thunderstorms  tsunamis or floods generated - sometimes causing
devastation and death? What will the weather be tomorrow  next week  next summer? This book
brings some answers to these questions with a strategy of describing before explaining.
Starting by considering air and water in equilibrium (i.e.  at rest)  it progresses to discuss
dynamic phenomena first focusing on large scale structures  such as El Niño or trade winds 
then on ever smaller structures  such as low-pressure zones in the atmosphere  clouds  rain  as
well as tides and waves. It finishes by describing man-made constructions (dams  ports  power
plants  etc.) that serve to domesticate our water resources and put them to work for us.
Including over one hundred illustrations and very few equations  most of the text is accessible
to readers with no more than high-school science and who are at ease with quantities such as
the temperature of a fluid or the pressure within such a medium. Beyond the primary audience of
engineers  teachers  and students  the book is thus also addressed to walkers  hikers 
navigators  and all nature lovers.

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