Umitsu, M. ed.: Geo-environment of Alluvial and Coastal Lowlands

E . M . Scott ( ed ) , Modelling Radioactivity in the Environment

Geo-Information Technology for Coastal Disaster Risk Reduction

Geo-information techniques have proven their usefulness for the purposes of early warning and emergency response. These techniques enable us to generate extensive geo-information to make informed decisions in response to natural disasters that lead to better protection of citizens, reduce damage to property, improve the monitoring of these disasters, and facilitate estimates of the damages and ...

Geo-Coded Environment for Integrated Smart Systems

Smart Systems provide novel enabling functionalities and as such are currently a driving force behind product innovation. Smart Systems are, therefore, crucial for the competitiveness of companies and entire industry sectors. Geo-tagging and smart spaces are two promising directions in modern mobile market. Geo-tagging allows to markup any kind of data by geographical coordinates and time. This...

OP - ED P . 3 Your environment

Following the lead of 500 other universities throughout the country, Rice will soon start using Gmail as the campus email provider for students. The switch to Gmail has been an ongoing project for the past two years, Manager of IT Technical Communications Carlyn Chatfield said. "We monitor what our students are asking for, what other institutions are doing, and we watch what 's going on in the ...

M odelling outflows, coastal currents and eddies

Several types of flows driven by outflows on the continental shelf are examined mathematically and numerically. Within a quasigeostrophic framework, a variety of vertical structures and topographies are used. Features are explained in terms of potential vorticity conservation. The combined effects of topography and anomalous vorticity of the outflow are studied. First, shelf-like topography is ...