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A Meteorological Supersite for Aviation and Cold Weather Applications
The goal of this study is to better understand atmospheric boundary layer processes and parameters, and to evaluate physical processes for aviation...
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Disaster Emergency Management and Response
In this chapter, the disaster emergency management principle, system, mechanism and legal system, the emergency management modes of the...
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Strong Medieval Earthquake in the Northern Issyk-Kul Lake Region (Tien Shan): Results of Paleoseismological and Archeoseismological Studies
A number of archeological monuments in the northern Issyk-Kul Lake region (Tien Shan) in the basins of the Chet-Koysuu and Chon-Koysuu rivers are...
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Defining Natural Hazards – Large Scale Hazards
The natural forces at work on planet Earth have been an integral part of life since the dawn of mankind. The impacts of hazards of natural origin can...
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Blocking features for two types of cold events in East Asia
Cold air outbreaks (CAOs) always hit East Asia during boreal winter and have significant impacts on human health and public transport. The amplitude...
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Mineral Deposits: Types and Geology
Chapter 2 provides a brief introduction to the types of mineral deposits. These descriptions include both the commodities and the geology of the...
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Climatologically based warning system against meteorological hazards and weather extremes: the example for Poland
This work presents a detailed scientific concept of an operational warning system concerning weather hazards, which is a component of the IT System...
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Copper and Coal Through the Ages
We will never know who first smelted copper. Nevertheless, archaeometallurgyArchaeometallurgy has made considerable progress in identifying where,...
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Simulation of acid rain weathering effect on natural and artificial carbonate stones
Atmospheric pollutants are changing due to policies aiming at attenuating climate change. Some of the results of these measures are the current...
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Environmental impact in a rural community due to a lead recycling plant in Zacatecas, Mexico
A study was conducted to determine the concentrations of lead in soil and plants samples due to the exposure of emission from a metal-recycling plant...
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On the freezing precipitation in korea and the basic schemes for its potential prediction
This study aims to improve the forecasting skill for freezing precipitation. A total of 102 freezing precipitation cases were collected in South and...
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Treatment of berberine hydrochloride pharmaceutical wastewater by O3/UV/H2O2 advanced oxidation process
O 3 /UV/H 2 O 2 advanced oxidation process (AOP) was employed to degrade antibiotic berberine hydrochloride (BH) in pharmaceutical wastewater. The effects...
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Annexure II: Mineral-Wise Uses of Metals, Minerals and Rocks
( Hardness values are on Mohs scale )
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Thermal anomalies at volcanoes
Thermal anomalies occur when a pixel in a satellite image shows a higher brightness temperature than is expected relative to its neighbors. Thermal...
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Theoretical Background
The chapter is organized in two sections. The first section overviews the main impulses, initiatives and achievements in global and European...
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Setting, history, and impact of volcanic eruptions in the North Pacific region
The focus of this book is to highlight applications and analysis of data from satellite-borne instruments for monitoring and interpreting volcanic...
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Heavy metal pollution in Ancient Nara, Japan, during the eighth century
We quantitatively investigated the eighth century heavy metal pollution in Heijo-kyo (Ancient Nara), the first large, international city of Japan. In...
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