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The Hamilton-Type Principle in Fluid Dynamicsby Angel Fierros Palacios
Springer 2006; US$ 119.00Describes Fluid Dynamics, Magnetohydrodynamics, and Classical Thermodynamics as branches of Lagrange's Analytical Mechanics. This book formulates a Hamilton-Type Variational Principle as the proper mathematical technique for the theoretical description of the dynamic state of any fluid. more...
Short-Wave Solar Radiation in the Earth¿s Atmosphereby Irina N. Melnikova; Alexander V. Vasilyev
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2005; US$ 179.00Based on data from an experiment which ran for ten years, this book summarizes the results of the Atmospheric Physics Department of the St. Petersburg University and the Main Geophysical Observatory. The processed data now forms a rich dataset of spectral values of radiative characteristics under different atmospheric conditions. The analysis of this database clearly shows that the solar radiative absorption in a dusty and cloudy atmosphere is significantly higher than assumed to date. Both graduate students of atmospheric sciences as well as scientists and researchers in the field of meteorology and climatology will find a wealth of new data and information in this monograph. more...
The Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE)by V. George; G. Rottman; T. Woods
Springer 2005; US$ 159.00The Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) is a small satellite, carrying four scientific instruments to measure the solar radiation incident. This collection of papers describes the SORCE mission, goals, spacecraft, instrument development and calibration, science implications on how the Sun influences Earth's environment, and others. more...
Modeling Solar Radiation at the Earth's Surfaceby Viorel Badescu
Springer 2008; US$ 179.00Solar radiation data is important for a wide range of applications, e.g. in engineering, agriculture, health sector, and in many fields of the natural sciences. A few examples showing the diversity of applications may include: architecture and building design e.g. air conditioning and cooling systems; solar heating system design and use; solar power generation; weather and climate prediction models; evaporation and irrigation; calculation of water requirements for crops; monitoring plant growth and disease control; skin cancer research. Solar radiation data must be provided in a variety of forms to suit these applications. The radiation reaching the upper atmosphere of the Earth is a quantity rather constant in time. But the radiation reaching... more...
American Sunshineby Daniel Freund
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 32.00In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks, pollution obscured the skies, and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun. Doctors fed anxities about these new conditions with claims about a rising tide of the "diseases of darkness," especially rickets and tuberculosis. In American Sunshine , Daniel Freund tracks the obsession with sunlight from those bleak days into the twentieth century. Before long, social reformers, medical professionals, scientists, and a growing nudist movement proffered remedies for America’s new dark age. Architects, city planners, and politicians made access to sunlight central to public housing and public... more...
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