Sea Drift

Sea Drift
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Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : OXFORD:600025853
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Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Sea Drift by : Hercules Robinson

Sea Drift

Sea Drift
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Total Pages : 295
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ISBN-10 : 0813529786
ISBN-13 : 9780813529783
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Sea Drift by : Peter Joseph Capelotti

Heyerdahl's radical thesis of a prehistoric world where ancient mariners traveled between continents on ocean currents electrified the postwar world. His Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft sold twenty million copies in sixty-five languages.".

Sea Drift

Sea Drift
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Total Pages : 114
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:RSL1EY
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Rating : 4/5 (EY Downloads)

Synopsis Sea Drift by : Grace Ellery Channing

The Drift of Sea Ice

The Drift of Sea Ice
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 9783642046834
ISBN-13 : 3642046835
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis The Drift of Sea Ice by : Matti Leppäranta

The Second Edition of The Drift of Sea Ice presents the fundamental laws of sea ice drift which come from the material properties of sea ice and the basic laws of mechanics. The resulting system of equations is analysed for the general properties of sea ice drift, the free drift model and analytical models for ice drift in the presence of internal friction, and the construction of numerical ice drift models is detailed. This second edition of a much lauded work, unique on this topic in the English language, has been revised, updated and expanded with much new information and outlines recent results, in particular in relation to the climate problem, mathematical modelling and ice engineering applications. The current book presents the theory, observations, mathematical modelling techniques, and applications of sea ice drift science. The theory is presented from the beginning on a graduate student level, so that students and researchers coming from other fields such as physical oceanography, meteorology, physics, engineering, environmental sciences or geography can use the book as a source book or self-study material. First the drift ice material is presented ending with the concept of ‘ice state’ – the relevant properties in sea ice dynamics. Ice kinematics observations are widely presented with the mathematical analysis methods, and thereafter come drift ice rheology – to close the triangle material – kinematics – stress. The momentum equation of sea ice is derived in detail and its general properties are carefully analysed. Then follow two chapters on analytical models: free drift and drift in the presence of internal friction: These are very important tools in understanding the dynamical behaviour of sea ice. The last topical chapter is numerical models, which are the modern tool to solve ice dynamics problem in short term and long term problems. The closing chapter summarises sea ice dynamics applications and the need of sea ice dynamic knowledge and gives some final remarks on the future of this branch of science.

Drift, Deformation, and Fracture of Sea Ice

Drift, Deformation, and Fracture of Sea Ice
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 95
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ISBN-10 : 9789400762022
ISBN-13 : 940076202X
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Drift, Deformation, and Fracture of Sea Ice by : Jerome Weiss

Sea ice is a major component of polar environments, especially in the Arctic where it covers the entire Arctic Ocean throughout most of the year. However, in the context of climate change, the Arctic sea ice cover has been declining significantly over the last decades, either in terms of its concentration or thickness. The sea ice cover evolution and climate change are strongly coupled through the albedo positive feedback, thus possibly explaining the Arctic amplification of climate warming. In addition to thermodynamics, sea ice kinematics (drift, deformation) appears as an essential factor in the evolution of the ice cover through a reduction of the average ice age (and consequently of the cover's thickness), or ice export out of the Arctic. This is a first motivation for a better understanding of the kinematical and mechanical processes of sea ice. A more upstream, theoretical motivation is a better understanding of the brittle deformation of geophysical objects across a wide range of scales. Indeed, owing to its very strong kinematics, compared e.g. to the Earth’s crust, an unrivaled kinematical data set is available for sea ice from in situ (e.g. drifting buoys) or satellite observations. Here, we review the recent advances in the understanding of sea ice drift, deformation and fracturing obtained from these data. We focus particularly on the scaling properties in time and scale that characterize these processes, and we emphasize the analogies that can be drawn from the deformation of the Earth’s crust. These scaling properties, which are the signature of long-range elastic interactions within the cover, constrain future developments in the modeling of sea ice mechanics. We also show that kinematical and rheological variables such as average velocity, average strain-rate or strength have significantly changed over the last decades, accompanying and actually accelerating the Arctic sea ice decline.

An Unreasonable Woman

An Unreasonable Woman
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Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Total Pages : 394
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ISBN-10 : 9781603580410
ISBN-13 : 1603580417
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis An Unreasonable Woman by : Diane Wilson

When Diane Wilson, fourth-generation shrimp-boat captain and mother of five, learns that she lives in the most polluted county in the United States, she decides to fight back. She launches a campaign against a multibillion-dollar corporation that has been covering up spills, silencing workers, flouting the EPA, and dumping lethal ethylene dichloride and vinyl chloride into the bays along her beloved Texas Gulf Coast. In an epic tale of bravery, Wilson takes her fight to the courts, to the gates of the chemical plant, and to the halls of power in Austin. Along the way she meets with scorn, bribery, character assassination, and death threats. Finally Wilson realizes that she must break the law to win justice: She resorts to nonviolent disobedience, direct action, and hunger strikes. Wilson's vivid South Texas dialogue resides somewhere between Alice Walker and William Faulkner, and her dazzling prose brings to mind the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, replete with dreams and prophecies.

Drift

Drift
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1937658201
ISBN-13 : 9781937658205
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Drift by : Caroline Bergvall

A riveting new volume exploring the power and provocation of medieval English and the trope of the seafarer

Adrift at Sea

Adrift at Sea
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Publisher : Pajama Press Inc.
Total Pages : 27
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ISBN-10 : 9781772780055
ISBN-13 : 1772780057
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Adrift at Sea by : Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

It is 1981. In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a fishing boat overloaded with 60 Vietnamese refugees drifts. The motor has failed; the hull is leaking; the drinking water is nearly gone. This is the dramatic true story recounted by Tuan Ho, who was six years old when he, his mother, and two sisters dodged the bullets of Vietnam’s military police for the perilous chance of boarding that boat. Told to multi-award-winning author Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch and illustrated by the celebrated Brian Deines, Tuan’s story has become Adrift At Sea, the first picture book to describe the flight of Vietnam’s “Boat People” refugees. Illustrated with sweeping oil paintings and complete with an expansive historical and biographical section with photographs, this non-fiction picture book is all the more important as the world responds to a new generation of refugees risking all on the open water for the chance at safety and a new life.

Seadrift

Seadrift
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Total Pages : 332
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ISBN-10 : OXFORD:600060577
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Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Seadrift by : Lady Wood

438 Days

438 Days
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9781501116292
ISBN-13 : 1501116290
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis 438 Days by : Jonathan Franklin

The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together his own clothes. Based on dozens of hours of interviews with Alvarenga and interviews with his colleagues, search and rescue officials, the medical team that saved his life and the remote islanders who nursed him back to health, this is an epic tale of survival. Print run 75,000.