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Snow and ice-related hazards, risks, and disasters /
Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides you with the latest scientific developments in glacier surges and melting, ice shelf collapses, paleo-climate reconstruction, sea level rise, climate change implications, causality, impacts, preparedness, and mitigation. It takes a geo-scie...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam, Netherlands :
Elsevier Science,
�2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- FrontCover; Snow and Ice-RelatedHazards, Risks, and Disasters; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; EditorialForeword; Foreword by Charles Harris; Preface; Chapter 1
- Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters: A General Framework; 1.2 COSTS AND BENEFITS: LIVING WITH SNOW AND ICE; 1.3 SMALL AND LARGE, FAST AND SLOW, LOCAL TO GLOBAL: DEALING WITH CONSTRAINTS; REFERENCES; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.7 SUMMARY; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; REFERENCES; 3.1 INTRODUCTION; REFERENCES; 6.1 GLACIAL PROCESSES AND LANDSCAPES; 7.1 INTRODUCTION; 6.4 CONCLUSIONS AND OUTLOOK; 7.4 PERMAFROST TYPES, EXTENT, AND DISTRIBUTION.
- 9.1 INTRODUCTION9.6 CASE STUDY "EVALUATION OF AVALANCHE MITIGATION MEASURES FOR JUNEAU, ALASKA"; 16.6 GLACIAL DEBRIS FLOWS I; NON-OUTBURST RELATED; 10.1 INTRODUCTION; 10.9 PERMAFROST AND THE CARBON CYCLE IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE; 11.4 TUNNEL VALLEYS WITHIN THE NORTH GERMAN PLAIN AND THEIR RELEVANCE TO THE LONG-TERM SAFETY OF NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORIES; 12.1 INTRODUCTION; 12.4 AVALANCHE FLOW; 13.1 INTRODUCTION; 13.4 SURGES OF GLACIAR GRANDE DEL NEVADO DEL PLOMO, CENTRAL ANDES, ARGENTINA, AND RELATED DISASTERS/HAZARDS.
- 13.6 SURGING GLACIERS AND THE TRANS ALASKA PIPELINE SYSTEM: POTENTIAL HAZARDS AND MONITORING14.1 INTRODUCTION; 14.4 DOWNSTREAM FLOOD BEHAVIOR; 15.1 INTRODUCTION; 15.4 CONCLUSION AND OUTLOOK; 16.4 MASS FLOWS INVOLVING MAINLY FRAGMENTED ROCK (ROCK AVALANCHES); 11.1 INTRODUCTION; 17.1 INTRODUCTION; 18.6 FRESHWATER ICE; REFERENCES; 20.1 CONTEMPORARY SEA-LEVEL RISE IN A GEOLOGIC PERSPECTIVE; Index.