Snow Avalanches: Beliefs, Facts, and Science by Louchet, Francois

Snow Avalanches: Beliefs, Facts, and Science (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198866930)

Vendor: Francois Louchet
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Format: Hardcover
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Snow Avalanches: Beliefs, Facts, and Science by Louchet, Francois

Snow Avalanches: Beliefs, Facts, and Science

$62.00
Snow Avalanches: Beliefs, Facts, and Science by Louchet, Francois

Snow Avalanches: Beliefs, Facts, and Science

$62.00
Format: Hardcover
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This book provides a critical update of the most recent and innovative developments of avalanche science. It aims at re-founding avalanche science on clear scientific bases, from field observations and experiments up to mathematical and physical analysis and modeling. In this respect, it stands in a still unoccupied but fundamental niche amidst the abundant avalanche literature.

In the current context of a accelerated climate warming, the book also discusses possible evolutions of snow cover extent and stability. It also shows how the present analysis can be extended, in mountainous areas, to other gravitationally induced phenomena that are likely to take over from avalanches under specific circumstances.

The text is supported by online links to field experiments and lectures on triggering mechanisms, risk management, and decision making.

Author: Francois Louchet
ISBN-10: 0198866933
ISBN-13: 9780198866930
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 02/18/2021
Pages: 98
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.80h x 6.70w x 0.50d
By Francois Louchet
By Francois Louchet
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Francois Louchet, Professor of Condensed Matter Physics, Grenoble University

Fran輟is Louchet received an engineering degree at Ecole Nationale Sup駻ieure des Mines (Nancy, France), the "Agr馮ation" degree in Physics, and a PhD in Solid State Physics. For more than 30 years he has been Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at Grenoble University (Grenoble Institute of Technology). He was also Invited Professor at Ecole Polytechnique F馘駻ale de Lausanne (Switzerland), invited scientist at the Balseiro Institute, Bariloche (Argentina), and at Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic), Guest Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA), OCMR Distinguished Lecturer at Mc Master University, Hamilton, and Kingston University (Ontario, Canada). He is the secretary of the Data-Avalanche Association, and a member of the European Physical Society and of the French Physical Society. Now retired, he keeps on with his research activity, more particularly on theoretical aspects of instabilities in Physics and Geophysics.

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