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Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: Are they the Ideal Sensor Platforms for Ocean Margin Science?
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are fast becoming accepted as very useful data gathering platforms within the marine science community...
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Glacial morphology and post-glacial contourites in northern Prince Gustav Channel (NW Weddell Sea, Antarctica)
We present the results of a marine geophysical investigation of the northern Prince Gustav Channel. By comparative analysis of multibeam bathymetric...
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Convectively Driven High Wind Events
On a day when the potential instability is sufficient, it is possible to initiate storms from rising air parcels. One estimate of the intensity of...
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Discovering Space
Half a century ago, most people visualized out planet as a solitary sphere traveling in a cold, dark vacuum around the Sun. But we now know that the...
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Analysis of acoustic backscatter in the vicinity of the Dry Tortugas
Experimental measurements of the bottom backscattering strength from carbonate sediments were made with a 200-kHz multibeam sonar mounted on a...
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Design Loads
The purpose of this chapter is to provide the port designer with guidelines on loads and forces to be used in the design of port related marine...
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A History of Aeronautical Meteorology: Personal Perspectives, 1903–1995
Ever since humans looked up to the sky and wondered where the clouds came from and where they went, there has been a symbiosis between weather and...
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Marinas
The word “marina” is generally used to describe a recreational boat facility, commonly referred to as small-craft marina; it is a water-dependent...
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Laterally Loaded Piles
Although foundation piles usually have as their main purpose to carry axial loads, they may also be subject to lateral loads. This is especially the...
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Marine Structures in Cold Regions
Areas of the earth with seasonally frozen grounds as well as such regions as the arctic and the subarctic are generally referred to as cold regions.
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Finite-Difference Methods for Shallow Water Flow Analysis
Although finite difference methods have a long and distinguished history of dealing with all kinds of fluid motion, including free surface flows,...
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Forecasting Severe Weather: Bouncing New Ideas Off the Subject
Perhaps the most awesome storms on earth are tornadoes. Who can forget in “The Wizard of Oz” the sight of the black funnel swee** down out of the...
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Fundamentals of gas-dynamical simulations
Starting from the Boltzmann equation a derivation of the hydrodynamical equations is presented. Some basic concepts required in solving the...
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Safe Design of Bolted Connections in Structural Steelwork
Within the framework of Earthquake Prognostics, the questions of structural detailing mark the very end of the “chain” of all the problems in...
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A 3-D modelsyystem for simulating thunderstorm microburst outflows
A new three-dimensional numerical model system has been designed to study the complex near-surface flow features that arise from collisions between...
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Early Foundations of the Measurement of Rainfall by Radar
Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, there was very intense research activity in the United States and the United Kingdom involving the...
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World War II China, Burma, India
In what the Allies referred to as the China-India-Burma (CBI) Theater, Japan’s strategy was to isolate China from her allies in the west. By late...
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Convective Dynamics
In addressing meteorological processes, including convection, it is convenient to separate these processes into their kinematic, dynamic, and...
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Demobilization and Retrenchment 1946–1960
Never before, and never after, did a country voluntarily demobilize so much so fast as the United States did following World War II. Some 12 million...
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Southeast Asia
Brig. Gen. Norm Peterson held the scepter of AWS command until March 17, 1963, when he left for reassignment as the commander of the Air Force...