000 01855 a2200193 4500
020 _a9783319652139
040 _cIIT Kanpur
041 _aeng
082 _a551.517
_bM813a
100 _aMoreau, Rene
245 _aAir and water
_btrade winds, hurricanes, gulf stream, tsunamis and other striking phenomena
_cRene Moreau
260 _bSpringer
_c2017
_aSwitzerland
300 _axi, 269p
440 _aGrenoble sciences
520 _aAir 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.
650 _aAtmospheric sciences
650 _aPhysics
942 _cBK
999 _c560815
_d560815