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Inverse Problems in Atmospheric Constituent Transport
I. G. Enting Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0521812100 |
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This book describes mathematical techniques for interpreting measurements of greenhouse gases in order to learn about their sources and sinks. The majority of the book gives general descriptions of techniques, but the last third covers the applications to carbon dioxide, methane, chlorofluorocarbons and other gases implicated in global change.Download Description
The critical role of trace gases in global atmospheric change makes an improved understanding of these gases imperative. Measurements of the distributions of these gases in space and time provide important information, but the interpretation of this information often involves ill-conditioned model inversions. A variety of techniques have therefore been developed to analyze these problems. Inverse Problems in Atmospheric Constituent Transport is the first book to give comprehensive coverage of work on this topic. The trace gas inversion problem is presented in general terms and the various different approaches are unified by treating the inversion problem as one of statistical estimation. Later chapters demonstrate the application of these methods to studies of carbon dioxide, methane, halocarbons and other gases implicated in global climate change. This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers embarking upon studies of global atmospheric change, biogeochemical cycles and Earth systems science.
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Diffusion Models of Environmental Transport
Bruce Choy , and Danny D. Reible Manufacturer: CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1566704146 |
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Fate and transport models are critical components in the determination of the exposure to and risk from hazardous contaminants. Analytical models are preferable because they are generally more accessible, more reliable, and require fewer computational resources. Surprisingly, until today, only a limited number of analytical models have been accessible in the literature. Now, there is Diffusion Models of Environmental Transport, which provides more than 40 analytical models of diffusion and advective-diffusion in one, two, and three layer systems, subject to a wide range of boundary and initial conditions. This text illustrates applications to contaminant transport in sediments and soils, including porewater and vapor transport, and also provides Mathcad spreadsheets to aid in the use of these models. The authors supply complete details of the solutions to the models for those who wish for a deeper understanding. For others, who do not have the time or the need, the solutions themselves are ready to be picked up and used. Reible and Choy use their 20-plus years of cumulative experience to create a thorough exploration of fate and transport models. This comprehensive text furnishes an invaluable reference for students and environmental professionals.
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Mesoscale Atmospheric Dispersion (Advances in Air Pollution)
Manufacturer: Computational Mechanics, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1853127329 |
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In the last few decades there has been increasing recognition and interest in evaluating air pollution problems over mesoscale and synoptic-scale. In particular, the most serious problems of our atmospheric environment at mesoscale, such as urban air pollution and the behaviour of urban scale plumes downwind of large industrialized cities, regional haze, photochemical smog, acidic precipitation, accidental toxic gas and radioactive releases, and stratospheric ozone depletion have received tremendous public attention.This monograph presents a collection of invited review papers covering this complex phenomenon. All the contributions have been written by leading scientists in the field and provide the reader with organized and consistent discussions on different aspects of mesoscale atmospheric dispersion. The material featured will be of great interest to researchers and students examining mesoscale meteorology, mesoscale dispersion, atmospheric boundary layer, and air pollution meteorology.
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Models for the long distance transport of atmospheric sulfur oxides (Outstanding dissertations on energy)
David H Nochumson Manufacturer: Garland Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0824039920 |
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Analytical solution of the Eulerian dispersion equation for nonstationary conditions: development and evaluation [An article from: Environmental Modelling and Software]
D.M. Moreira , P.d.V. Ferreira Neto , and J.d. Carvalho Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000RR813E |
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This digital document is a journal article from Environmental Modelling and Software, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Experimental verification for real-time environmental emergency response system: WSPEEDI by European tracer experiment [An article from: Atmospheric Environment]
A. Furuno , H. Terada , M. Chino , and H. Yamazawa Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000RR4IRW |
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This digital document is a journal article from Atmospheric Environment, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Simulation of constituent transport using a reduced 3D constituent transport model (CTM) driven by HF Radar: Model application and error analysis [An article ... from: Environmental Modelling and Software]
T.O. Ojo , J.S. Bonner , and C.A. Page Manufacturer: Elsevier ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000PC00QC |
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This digital document is a journal article from Environmental Modelling and Software, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Colloid mobilization and transport in contaminant plumes field experiments, laboratory experiments, and modeling (SuDoc EP 1.96:600/S-99/001)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Manufacturer: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Risk Management Research Laboratory ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B000110V84 |
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Frameworks and instrumentation for the field measurement of entrainment, resuspension and related processes at open-water dredged material placement sites (Technical report)
Keith W Bedford Manufacturer: U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006P4NAW |
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Modeling study of solute transport in the unsaturated zone (SuDoc Y 3.N 88:25/4615/V.-)
Manufacturer: Division of Waste Management, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00010JQCW |
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Java Modeling In Color With UML: Enterprise Components and Process
Peter Coad , Eric Lefebvre , and Jeff De Luca Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR ProductGroup: Book Binding: Textbook Binding Similar Items:
ASIN: 013011510X |
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Java Modeling in Color with UML--printed in color--provides four UML "archetypes" for common entities in business modeling. These have rather abstract names like the moment-interval. Each archetype is assigned a different color in UML. The book uses these four archetypes to model 61 domain-specific business components for manufacturing (including suppliers and inventory control), facilities management, sales, employees, and organizations, plus accounting and document management.Similar in spirit to software-design patterns, these UML components are catalogued with short prose descriptions and illustrated with UML. The detail here is often impressive, though the type is necessarily small. (Fortunately, the CD-ROM contains all these diagrams--including Java source code--for use within your own designs.) The authors--all experts in UML--have done the heavy lifting here. The idea is to incorporate these components within your own projects.
Besides a catalog of expert components, this book describes the authors' Feature-Driven Development (FDD) software-design process. (While there is one UML standard, design processes still proliferate.) FDD touts good productivity with a minimum of overhead. The authors argue that it can be used productively within today's ever-shorter business cycles.
In all, this book features much more than just color-enhanced UML. It provides a foundation of UML (and Java classes on the CD-ROM) that can model most business problems. If you design with UML, you can surely benefit from this intelligent and visually savvy text. --Richard Dragan
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Great Concepts but ..........2007-06-12
It does stand the test of time.......2007-04-26
Ignore the Java.......2003-10-18
Nice concept, but too limited to have
staying power.......2002-05-06
I haven't had much use for this book since purchasing it in 1999. It seems Ironic, somehow, since enjoyed the Togethersoft UML refresher training I received in 2000.
Together/J, supports the UML methodology, and also supports for the these models outlined in the book.
That said, it's worth borrowing a copy to see for yourself. I'd also recommend downloading the current 'whiteboard' edition from Togethersoft.
Jeff Grayson borrowed my copy when he was working on a project to improve VIANT's software development methodology with the Rosetta project.
quite unhappy.......2001-09-27
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Patterns in Java: A Catalog of Reusable Design Patterns Illustrated with UML, 2nd Edition, Volume 1
Mark Grand Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471227293 |
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Software design patterns let developers reuse tried-and-true designs in new projects. For the state of the art in object design, consider Patterns in Java, perhaps the best book that Java developers have at their disposal for getting leading-edge pattern expertise in a convenient and well-organized volume.The guide opens with background on pattern research, including the groundbreaking Design Patterns. This new title goes further, with 41 software patterns, all illustrated with UML diagrams and sample Java code. Early patterns, such as Delegation and Proxy, show how classes can work together without relying on inheritance. Next come creational patterns, such as the Factory and Builder patterns and the newer Object Pool pattern (which can be used to pool database connections for faster performance).
Subsequent sections move on to partitioning patterns, such as the Layered Initialization, as well as structural patterns, such as the Adapter, Facade, and Flyweight patterns. A section on behavioral patterns mixes older patterns such as the Chain of Responsibility and the Strategy with newer designs such as the Little Language and Snapshot patterns. The book closes with seven newer patterns for designing distributed and multitasked systems. --Richard Dragan
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"This is the best book on patterns since the Gang of Four's Design Patterns. The book manages to be a resource for three of the most important trends in professional programming: Patterns, Java, and UML."Since the release of Design Patterns in 1994, patterns have become one of the most important new technologies contributing to software design and development. In this volume Mark Grand presents 41 design patterns that help you create more elegant and reusable designs. He revisits the 23 "Gang of Four" design patterns from the perspective of a Java programmer and introduces many new patterns specifically for Java. Each pattern comes with the complete Java source code and is diagrammed using UML.
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good parts.......2007-07-17
The 2nd edition is not that bad.......2006-08-26
For learning design patterns..........2005-07-29
May be helpful.......2004-06-22
For the rest of us, this book has decidedly mixed value. The real problem is that Grand seems to equate the terms "desgin pattern" and "good idea". Design patterns are good ideas, at least in the right context, but not all good ideas are design patterns.
For example, delegation of responsibility is a good idea. It's the basis of any system decomposition. I have trouble justifying that as a design pattern - you may as well say that passing function parameters is a design pattern. It's just too broad. At the other end of the spectrum, Grand points to "marker" interfaces, Java interfaces with identities but not content, as a design pattern. Again, this is a useful but language-dependent hack. Ada or C# would have done the same things with attributes, and C++ could have done the same using marker fields or values in the class. Language tricks aren't patterns.
Still, many of Grand's patterns are good ideas. The "Object Pool", for example, is a common and useful pattern. It's closely related to two GoF patterns. It's like a Singleton, except there's more than one of them. It's like a Flyweight, except the units aren't distinguishable or shareable.
One real annoyance is the tendency of this Volume I to refer to necessary information in Volume II. If the author is going to create independently saleable units of book, they should be independently readable. I do not appreciate the implicit plug for the author's other work.
I use this book, but mostly for its bad examples. Think hard about whether this is the way to spend your budget for DP books.
Beware - Spammer on Board.......2003-10-17
The book begins poorly and gets worse. Specifically, the author definitely has a pension for patronizing his audience. He speaks as though he invented Patterns and is delivering them to the masses after bringing them down from the mountains inscribed on clay tablets.
Now, I'm not a guy to worry too much about a few typos here and there. After all, mistakes are made in code and text alike. However, the author's examples are not at all practical to the point of being useless and far too many of them flat out don't work!!
I'm not so much upset about the measly two bucks as I am about the several hours lost trying to decipher what the author meant and working through the typos. Anyway, hopefully this review will save someone else the time I lost.
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Mastering XMI: Java Programming with XMI, XML, and UML (With CD-ROM)
Timothy J. Grose , Gary C. Doney , and Stephen A. Brodsky Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471384291 |
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Create more powerful, flexible applications using a new extension of the XML standard
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Object-Oriented Design with UML and Java
Kenneth Barclay , and John Savage Manufacturer: Butterworth-Heinemann ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0750660988 |
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Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a general-purpose programming language for specifying and visualizing complex software, especially large, object-oriented projects. Object-oriented programming is when a programmer defines not only the data type of a data structure, but also the types of operations/functions that can be applied to the data structure. Java is a general purpose programming language with a number of features that make the language well suited for use on the World Wide Web. Fully road tested from the authors own courses, Object-Oriented Design with UML and Java shows how considering the modeling and programming languages together from the start can be beneficial, shifting the emphasis away from detailed programming issues, and instead allowing the focus to fall on the analysis of the meaning and accuracy of the model. No prior knowledge of object orientation is assumed, though some knowledge of Java or other high level programming language is required.Customer Reviews:
EclipseUML would be nice and an American Version.......2006-02-27
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Practical Object-oriented Design with UML
Mark Priestley Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Spiral-bound ASIN: 0077095995 |
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