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Regal Publications Agricultural Labour: Problem and Policy
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Amiga Press Inc Agriculture and Water Management
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Amiga Press Inc Climate Change and Environment
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Museum Tusculanum Press Ilimaussaq Alkaline Complex, South Greenland
Book SynopsisAn Overview of 200 years of Reseach and an outlook.
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OM Books International Go Green- Renewable Energy
Book SynopsisThis brilliantly illustrated book is a must-read to create awareness in young minds about how our planet can be saved from further damage.
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OM Books International Go Green- Waste Management
Book SynopsisThis vividly illustrated, delightful and extremely informative book answers all your queries and makes you aware of the importance of waste management.
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Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd Urban Housing, Livelihoods and Environmental
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The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI The Environment
Book SynopsisThe environment is defined, perceived, and valued diversely by different countries, cultures, and communities. A healthy environment ensures human security, which means everyone has the access to food and water, employment and livelihood stability, resilience to climate change and extreme weather events, and also social and political stability. As the demand for food, fodder, fuel, and raw material grows, it increases the pressure on the environment and the competition for natural resources. Both human and natural activities have caused the physical, chemical, and biological degradation of the environment. The Environment covers the basic components of environment, ecology, biomes, and biodiversity. The book gives an analytical understanding of the topics. While the book covers major international topics, it has a strong focus on India too. The book will help candidates appearing for competitive examinations such as civil services. It is also extremely useful for readers interested in environment science, environment chemistry, and related subjects.
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The Energy and Resources Institute, TERI Hide & Seek Tiger
Book SynopsisIn Jhargram, a tiger's pug marks appear after years, terrifying villagers. Rohan sets out on an adventure, encountering jackals, elephants, and the lost tiger. A tribal hunting festival looms, but Rohan knows someone will come to the rescue in tiger country.
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Niyogi Books Mahanadi
Book SynopsisOne of the largest rivers of India, Mahanadi originates from the foothills of the Sihaoa mountain of Chhattisgarh and flows for a thousand kilometres through Chhattisgarh and Odisha, finally immersing in the Bay of Bengal at Jagatsinghpur. But its journey never ends, as it flows daily from the plateau to the forest to the ravine to the plains. It unites with the sea every day. At every new turn, it leaves behind scores of villages, towns and cities. The din and bustle of a mofussil town, the solitary life in a standalone village, people''s struggle for survival, the episodes of their joys and sorrows, the sighs of the displaced people of Sambalpur during the building of the Hirakud dam mixes with the cries of the endangered people on the banks when the river overflows. In this novel, the tale of the river is entwined with the people through vignettes of their dynamic lives that are infused with myths, legends and archaeological anecdotes. Characters like Malati Gond, Neelkantha, Kuber, Bhanu Shitulia, Parvati and others might never meet each other, but the story of their lives will remain strung together by the common thread of the ever-flowing Mahanadi. The chronicle of Mahanadi is a journey through travails and misfortunes into life''s joys and mysterious beauty.
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HarperCollins India Fossil Free:: Redefining Clean Energy in a
Book SynopsisREIMAGINING A CLEANER, GREENER, CARBON-FREE WORLD! The current global energy use, with its overwhelming dependence on fossil fuels, has taken global warming to dangerous levels. Climate change is already hitting us hard, through adverse effects on global food availability, biodiversity, rising sea levels and extreme weather events, such as hurricanes and floods. In the last decade, a major transformation the transition to clean, affordable and sustainable energy from the sun and the wind is beginning to address these challenges. Fossil Free provides a concise introduction to the challenges, realities and complexities of the global and local energy industry, as well as the trends and forces driving the energy transition. It explains how improved electricity infrastructure, decentralized smart grids, electric vehicles, energy storage and market design are already providing clear pathways for the transition towards green, efficient, affordable and secure renewable energy across the energy-use chain: extraction, conversion, transmission, distribution and end use. For over a decade, Sumant Sinha has had a ringside view of the energy scenario. Having founded and helmed India''s leading clean energy company, his understanding of the global energy landscape and climate change brings a unique, holistic perspective on energy. With Fossil Free, Sinha shares his vision for energy which is not only clean, but also practical and affordable.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Observing Micrometeorology: A Personal Tour
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Horizons in Earth Science Research. Volume 24
Book SynopsisThis volume includes six chapters in earth science research. Chapter One explores the importance of thermodynamics and systems theory in terms of understanding the evolution, ecology and sustainability of the Biosphere. Chapter Two presents new data on variations of the ?13C and ?15N values in natural plant species and in the rhizosphere soil. Based on experimental results, this chapter also tries to better understand the large and often unexplained variability of the C and N isotope ratios in the environment. Chapter Three details the energy and trace elements of bioaccumulation with the biomass of miscanthus grown on different kinds of technosols. Chapter Four provides characteristics of a khondalitic aquifer. Chapter Five discusses a numerical simulation of the tsunami generated by a potential collapse and submarine landslide in La Palma (Canary Islands) after the September 2021 Cumbre Vieja eruption. This chapter also compares the eruption to the Late Bronze Age eruption of Santorini. Lastly, Chapter Six examines the upper cretaceous succession of the Zagros basin.
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Natural Resources Environment and Food and Energy Security Updates in North Sumatra
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Springer Geology and Mineral Resources of West Africa
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Springer Light and Color in the Outdoors
Book Synopsis1 Light and Shadows.- 2 Reflection of Light.- 3 Refraction of Light.- 4 The Curvature of Light Rays in the Atmosphere.- 5 The Measurement of Intensity and Brightness of Light.- 6 The Eye.- 7 Colors.- 8 Afterimages and Contrast Phenomena.- 9 Judging Shape and Motion.- 10 Rainbows, Halos, and Coronas.- 11 Light and Color of the Sky.- 12 Light and Color in the Landscape.- 13 Luminous Plants, Animals, and Stones.- Appendix A . Measuring Angles out of Doors.- Appendix B. Photographing Natural Phenomena.- Appendix C. Further Notes and References.Trade Review"Minnaert's book is a gem!...It is a wonderful book that should be known by everyone who has an interest in the natural visual world." Am. J. Phys."...just about everything imaginable that refracts or reflects light or shows color...a marvelous book, one that I highly recommend to every observer" Sky & TelescopeTable of Contents1 Light and Shadows.- 2 Reflection of Light.- 3 Refraction of Light.- 4 The Curvature of Light Rays in the Atmosphere.- 5 The Measurement of Intensity and Brightness of Light.- 6 The Eye.- 7 Colors.- 8 Afterimages and Contrast Phenomena.- 9 Judging Shape and Motion.- 10 Rainbows, Halos, and Coronas.- 11 Light and Color of the Sky.- 12 Light and Color in the Landscape.- 13 Luminous Plants, Animals, and Stones.- Appendix A . Measuring Angles out of Doors.- Appendix B. Photographing Natural Phenomena.- Appendix C. Further Notes and References.
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Springer Life and Death of Coral Reefs
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Wiley-Blackwell Forecast Verification A Practioners Guide inAtmospheric Science 2e
Book SynopsisForecast Verification: A Practioner''s Guide in Atmospheric Science, 2nd Edition provides an indispensible guide to this area of active research by combining depth of information with a range of topics to appeal both to professional practitioners and researchers and postgraduates. The editors have succeeded in presenting chapters by a variety of the leading experts in the field while still retaining a cohesive and highly accessible style. The book balances explanations of concepts with clear and useful discussion of the main application areas. Reviews of first edition: This book will provide a good reference, and I recommend it especially for developers and evaluators of statistical forecast systems. (Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society; April 2004) ...a good mixture of theory and practical applications...well organized and clearly written... (Royal Statistical Society, Vol.168, No.1, January 2005) NEW to the second edition:Table of ContentsList of Contributors xi Preface xiii Preface to the First Edition xv 1 Introduction 1Ian T. Jolliffe and David B. Stephenson 1.1 A brief history and current practice 1 1.1.1 History 1 1.1.2 Current practice 2 1.2 Reasons for forecast verification and its benefits 3 1.3 Types of forecast and verification data 4 1.4 Scores, skill and value 5 1.4.1 Skill scores 6 1.4.2 Artificial skill 6 1.4.3 Statistical significance 7 1.4.4 Value added 8 1.5 Data quality and other practical considerations 8 1.6 Summary 9 2 Basic concepts 11Jacqueline M. Potts 2.1 Introduction 11 2.2 Types of predictand 11 2.3 Exploratory methods 12 2.4 Numerical descriptive measures 15 2.5 Probability, random variables and expectations 20 2.6 Joint, marginal and conditional distributions 20 2.7 Accuracy, association and skill 22 2.8 Properties of verification measures 22 2.9 Verification as a regression problem 23 2.10 The Murphy–Winkler framework 25 2.11 Dimensionality of the verification problem 28 3 Deterministic forecasts of binary events 31Robin J. Hogan and Ian B. Mason 3.1 Introduction 31 3.2 Theoretical considerations 33 3.2.1 Some basic descriptive statistics 33 3.2.2 A general framework for verification: the distributions-oriented approach 34 3.2.3 Performance measures in terms of factorizations of the joint distribution 37 3.2.4 Diagrams for visualizing performance measures 38 3.2.5 Case study: verification of cloud-fraction forecasts 41 3.3 Signal detection theory and the ROC 42 3.3.1 The signal detection model 43 3.3.2 The relative operating characteristic (ROC) 44 3.4 Metaverification: criteria for assessing performance measures 45 3.4.1 Desirable properties 45 3.4.2 Other properties 49 3.5 Performance measures 50 3.5.1 Overview of performance measures 51 3.5.2 Sampling uncertainty and confidence intervals for performance measures 55 3.5.3 Optimal threshold probabilities 57 Acknowledgements 59 4 Deterministic forecasts of multi-category events 61Robert E. Livezey 4.1 Introduction 61 4.2 The contingency table: notation, definitions, and measures of accuracy 62 4.2.1 Notation and definitions 62 4.2.2 Measures of accuracy 64 4.3 Skill scores 64 4.3.1 Desirable attributes 65 4.3.2 Gandin and Murphy equitable scores 66 4.3.3 Gerrity equitable scores 69 4.3.4 LEPSCAT 71 4.3.5 SEEPS 72 4.3.6 Summary remarks on scores 73 4.4 Sampling variability of the contingency table and skill scores 73 5 Deterministic forecasts of continuous variables 77Michel Déqué 5.1 Introduction 77 5.2 Forecast examples 77 5.3 First-order moments 79 5.3.1 Bias 79 5.3.2 Mean Absolute Error 80 5.3.3 Bias correction and artificial skill 81 5.3.4 Mean absolute error and skill 81 5.4 Second- and higher-order moments 82 5.4.1 Mean Squared Error 82 5.4.2 MSE skill score 82 5.4.3 MSE of scaled forecasts 83 5.4.4 Correlation 84 5.4.5 An example: testing the ‘limit of predictability’ 86 5.4.6 Rank correlations 87 5.4.7 Comparison of moments of the marginal distributions 88 5.4.8 Graphical summaries 90 5.5 Scores based on cumulative frequency 91 5.5.1 Linear Error in Probability Space (LEPS) 91 5.5.2 Quantile-quantile plots 92 5.5.3 Conditional quantile plots 92 5.6 Summary and concluding remarks 94 6 Forecasts of spatial fields 95Barbara G. Brown, Eric Gilleland and Elizabeth E. Ebert 6.1 Introduction 95 6.2 Matching methods 96 6.3 Traditional verification methods 97 6.3.1 Standard continuous and categorical approaches 97 6.3.2 S1 and anomaly correlation 98 6.3.3 Distributional methods 99 6.4 Motivation for alternative approaches 100 6.5 Neighbourhood methods 103 6.5.1 Comparing neighbourhoods of forecasts and observations 104 6.5.2 Comparing spatial forecasts with point observations 104 6.6 Scale separation methods 105 6.7 Feature-based methods 108 6.7.1 Feature-matching techniques 108 6.7.2 Structure-Amplitude-Location (SAL) technique 110 6.8 Field deformation methods 111 6.8.1 Location metrics 111 6.8.2 Field deformation 112 6.9 Comparison of approaches 113 6.10 New approaches and applications: the future 114 6.11 Summary 116 7 Probability forecasts 119Jochen Broecker 7.1 Introduction 119 7.2 Probability theory 120 7.2.1 Basic concepts from probability theory 120 7.2.2 Probability forecasts, reliability and sufficiency 121 7.3 Probabilistic scoring rules 122 7.3.1 Definition and properties of scoring rules 122 7.3.2 Commonly used scoring rules 124 7.3.3 Decomposition of scoring rules 125 7.4 The relative operating characteristic (ROC) 126 7.5 Evaluation of probabilistic forecasting systems from data 128 7.5.1 Three examples 128 7.5.2 The empirical ROC 130 7.5.3 The empirical score as a measure of performance 130 7.5.4 Decomposition of the empirical score 131 7.5.5 Binning forecasts and the leave-one-out error 132 7.6 Testing reliability 134 7.6.1 Reliability analysis for forecast A: the reliability diagram 134 7.6.2 Reliability analysis for forecast B: the chi-squared test 136 7.6.3 Reliability analysis for forecast C: the PIT 138 Acknowledgements 139 8 Ensemble forecasts 141Andreas P. Weigel 8.1 Introduction 141 8.2 Example data 142 8.3 Ensembles interpreted as discrete samples 143 8.3.1 Reliability of ensemble forecasts 144 8.3.2 Multidimensional reliability 152 8.3.3 Discrimination 157 8.4 Ensembles interpreted as probabilistic forecasts 159 8.4.1 Probabilistic interpretation of ensembles 159 8.4.2 Probabilistic skill metrics applied to ensembles 160 8.4.3 Effect of ensemble size on skill 163 8.5 Summary 166 9 Economic value and skill 167David S. Richardson 9.1 Introduction 167 9.2 The cost/loss ratio decision model 168 9.2.1 Value of a deterministic binary forecast system 169 9.2.2 Probability forecasts 172 9.2.3 Comparison of deterministic and probabilistic binary forecasts 174 9.3 The relationship between value and the ROC 175 9.4 Overall value and the Brier Skill Score 178 9.5 Skill, value and ensemble size 180 9.6 Applications: value and forecast users 182 9.7 Summary 183 10 Deterministic forecasts of extreme events and warnings 185Christopher A.T. Ferro and David B. Stephenson 10.1 Introduction 185 10.2 Forecasts of extreme events 186 10.2.1 Challenges 186 10.2.2 Previous studies 187 10.2.3 Verification measures for extreme events 189 10.2.4 Modelling performance for extreme events 191 10.2.5 Extreme events: summary 194 10.3 Warnings 195 10.3.1 Background 195 10.3.2 Format of warnings and observations for verification 196 10.3.3 Verification of warnings 197 10.3.4 Warnings: summary 200 Acknowledgements 201 11 Seasonal and longer-range forecasts 203Simon J. Mason 11.1 Introduction 203 11.2 Forecast formats 204 11.2.1 Deterministic and probabilistic formats 204 11.2.2 Defining the predictand 206 11.2.3 Inclusion of climatological forecasts 206 11.3 Measuring attributes of forecast quality 207 11.3.1 Skill 207 11.3.2 Other attributes 215 11.3.3 Statistical significance and uncertainty estimates 216 11.4 Measuring the quality of individual forecasts 217 11.5 Decadal and longer-range forecast verification 218 11.6 Summary 220 12 Epilogue: new directions in forecast verification 221Ian T. Jolliffe and David B. Stephenson 12.1 Introduction 221 12.2 Review of key concepts 221 12.3 Forecast evaluation in other disciplines 223 12.3.1 Statistics 223 12.3.2 Finance and economics 225 12.3.3 Medical and clinical studies 226 12.4 Current research and future directions 228 Acknowledgements 230 Appendix: Verification Software 231Matthew Pocernich A.1 What is good software? 231 A.1.1 Correctness 232 A.1.2 Documentation 232 A.1.3 Open source/closed source/commercial 232 A.1.4 Large user base 232 A.2 Types of verification users 232 A.2.1 Students 233 A.2.2 Researchers 233 A.2.3 Operational forecasters 233 A.2.4 Institutional use 233 A.3 Types of software and programming languages 233 A.3.1 Spreadsheets 235 A.3.2 Statistical programming languages 235 A.4 Institutional supported software 238 A.4.1 Model Evaluation Tool (MET) 238 A.4.2 Ensemble Verification System (EVS) 239 A.4.3 EUMETCAL Forecast Verification Training Module 239 A.5 Displays of verification information 239 A.5.1 National Weather Service Performance Management 240 A.5.2 Forecast Evaluation Tool 240 Glossary 241 References 251 Index 267
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