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Downscaling Techniques for High-Resolution Climate Projections

From Global Change to Local Impacts

By: Rao Kotamarthi,Katharine Hayhoe,Linda O. Mearns,Donald Wuebbles,Jennifer Jacobs,Jennifer Jurado

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Downscaling Techniques for High-Resolution Climate Projections

From Global Change to Local Impacts

By: Rao Kotamarthi,Katharine Hayhoe,Linda O. Mearns,Donald Wuebbles,Jennifer Jacobs,Jennifer Jurado

Downscaling is a widely used technique for translating information from large-scale climate models to the spatial and temporal scales needed to assess local and regional climate impacts, vulnerability, risk and resilience. This book is a comprehensive guide to the downscaling techniques used for climate data. A general introduction of the science of climate modeling is followed by a discussion of techniques, models and methodologies used for producing downscaled projections, and the advantages, disadvantages and uncertainties of each. The book provides detailed information on dynamic and statistical downscaling techniques in non-technical language, as well as recommendations for selecting suitable downscaled datasets for different applications. The use of downscaled climate data in national and international assessments is also discussed using global examples. This is a practical guide for graduate students and researchers working on climate impacts and adaptation, as well as for policy makers and practitioners interested in climate risk and resilience.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108587062

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9781108587068

Particulates Matter

Impact, Measurement, and Remediation of Airborne Pollutants

By: Vikram Rao,William Vizuete

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Particulates Matter

Impact, Measurement, and Remediation of Airborne Pollutants

By: Vikram Rao,William Vizuete

A title in the Emerging Issues in Analytical Chemistry series, Particulates Matter: Impact, Measurement, and Remediation of Airborne Pollutants provides the latest technical findings in the study of particulate matter (PM). It links these findings to awareness-raising and actionable schemes for legislated remediation and engineered solutions. Written in an engaging and informative manner, the book begins with a multi-disciplinary overview of the major sources and unique classes of PM, detection techniques, and their impact, including molecular changes resulting in health effects. It then goes one step further by proposing and examining the means to curtail and contain PM generation and ameliorate their impacts. Particulates Matter: Impact, Measurement, and Remediation of Airborne Pollutants offers a high-quality reference guide to PM that will greatly benefit technology leaders in environmental compliance groups, epidemiologists and other public health professionals focused on pollution and health, and researchers and scholars working in pollution, climate change, and urbanization. It may also be useful to advanced undergraduate and early graduate students in environmental sciences. - Includes a summary of the current knowledge on nanoparticles as pollutants and their negative health effects - Provides a framework for the evolution and maturation of air pollution characterization and mitigation - Describes an integrated set of engineered solutions that account for the concatenated relationships between technology, policy, and society necessary for long-term success

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290

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Elsevier

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0128169052

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9780128169056

Re-figuring the Ramayana as Theology

A History of Reception in Premodern India

By: Ajay K. Rao

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Re-figuring the Ramayana as Theology

A History of Reception in Premodern India

By: Ajay K. Rao

The Rāmāyana of Vālmīki is considered by many contemporary Hindus to be a foundational religious text. But this understanding is in part the result of a transformation of the epic’s receptive history, a hermeneutic project which challenged one characterization of the genre of the text, as a work of literary culture, and replaced it with another, as a work of remembered tradition. This book examines Rāmāyana commentaries, poetic retellings, and praise-poems produced by intellectuals within the Śrīvaisnava order of South India from 1250 to 1600 and shows how these intellectuals reconceptualized Rāma’s story through the lens of their devotional metaphysics. Śrīvaisnavas applied innovative interpretive techniques to the Rāmāyana, including allegorical reading, ślesa reading (reading a verse as a double entendre), and the application of vernacular performance techniques such as word play, improvisation, repetition, and novel forms of citation. The book is of interest not only to Rāmāyana specialists but also to those engaged with Indian intellectual history, literary studies, and the history of religions.

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198

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Routledge

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1134077424

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9781134077427

The Sacred Wordsmith

Writing and the Word

By: Raja Rao

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The Sacred Wordsmith

Writing and the Word

By: Raja Rao

The Sacred Wordsmith compiles the best of Raja Rao's writings, including his autobiographical Prefaces and Introductions. The volume puts together several of his noted acceptance speeches, including those for the Sahitya Akademi Award and Neustadt International Prize, and other famous pieces, such as 'The World is Sound', 'The Word', 'Why Do You Write?', 'The West Discovers Sanskrit', 'The English Language and Us', and 'The Story Round, Around Kanthapura', a fascinating, unpublished account of the makings of his famous first novel.

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192

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Penguin Random House India Private Limited

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9354928153

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9789354928154

The Best of Raja Rao

By: Raja Rao

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The Best of Raja Rao

By: Raja Rao

This volume consists of some of Raja Rao s short stories, extracts of his novels and non-fictions substantiated by an understanding of Rao s history, politics and philosophy.

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Katha

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8185586810

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9788185586816

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Downscaling Techniques for High-Resolution Climate Projections

Downscaling Techniques for High-Resolution Climate Projections

Particulates Matter

Particulates Matter

Re-figuring the Ramayana as Theology

Re-figuring the Ramayana as Theology

The Sacred Wordsmith

The Sacred Wordsmith

The Best of Raja Rao

The Best of Raja Rao

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