Tree Rings and Natural Hazards by Brian H. Luckman
Home > Technology & Engineering > Agriculture & farming > Horticulture > Tree Rings and Natural Hazards
Tree Rings and Natural Hazards

Tree Rings and Natural Hazards


     0     
5
4
3
2
1



International Edition


About the Book

Dedication.- Foreword: Dendrogeomorphology beginnings and futures - a personal message.- 1 Tree rings and natural hazards - an introduction.- 2 Snow avalanches.- 2.1 Dendrogeomorphology and snow avalanche research.- 2.2 Tree-ring dating of snow avalanches in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA.- 2.3 Tracking past snow avalanches in the SE Pyrenees.- 2.4 Tree-ring based reconstruction of past snow avalanche events and risk assessment in Northern Gaspé (Quebec, Canada).- 2.5 Using dendrochronology to validate numerical simulations of snow avalanches in the Patagonian Andes.- 3.0 Landslides.- 3.1 Dating landslides with trees.- 3.2 Dendrogeomorphological analysis of a landslide near Lago, Calabria (Italy).- 3.3 Tree-ring analysis and rockfall avalanches - the use of weighted samples.- 3.4 Age of landslides along the Grande Riviére de la Baleine esturary, eastern coast of Hudson Bay, Quebec (Canada).- 3.5 Rainfall up, mountain down?.- 4.0 Rockfall.- 4.1 Rocfalls and their hazard.- 4.2 Assessing rockfall activity in a mountain forest - implications for hazard assessment.- 4.3 Tree-ring based rockfall reconstruction and accuracy assessment of a 3D rockfall model.- 4.4 Assessment of the rockfall frequency for hazard analysis at Solá d'Andorra (Eastern Pyrenees).- 4.5 Reconstruction and spatial analysis of rockfall frequency and bounce heights derived from tree-ring analysis.- 5.0 Debris flows.- 5.1 State of the art in debris flow research: the role of dendrochronology.- 5.2 Using event and minimum age dating for the assessment of hazards on a debris-flow cone.- 5.3 Dendrogeomorphic applications to debris flows in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA.- 5.4 Frequency-magnitude relationships, seasonality and spread of debris flows on a forested cone.- 5.5 High-precision dating of debris-flow events within the growing season.- 6.0 Flooding.- 6.1 Tree-rings as paleoflood and paleostage indications.- 6.2 The effects of hydroelectric flooding on a reservoir'speripheral forest and newly created forested islands.- 6.3 Spring water levels reconstructed from ice-scarred trees and cross-sectional area of the earlywood vessels in tree-rings from eastern boreal Canada.- 6.4 A 100-year history of floods determined from tree rings in a small mountain stream in the Tatra Mountains, Poland.- 6.5 Dendrohydrology and extreme floods along the Red River, Canada.- 7.0 Meteorological hazards.- 7.1 Weather and climate extremes: where can dendrochronology help?.- 7.2 Dendrotempestology an dthe isotopic record of tropical cyclones in tree-rings of the Southeastern United States.- 7.3 Dendrochronological responses to a tornado.- 7.4 Dendroecology of hurricanes and the potential for isotopic reconstructions in Southeastern Texas.- 8.0 Wildfires.- 8.1 Wildfire hazard and the role of tree-ring research.- 8.2 Mesoscale disturbance and ecological response to decadal climateic variability in the American Southwest.- Wildfire risk and ecological restoration in mixed-severity fire regimes.- 8.4 Wildfire ecology and management at Grand Canyon, USA: tree-ring applications in forest fire history and modeling.- 8.5 Wildfire risk and hazard in Northern Patagonia, Argentinia.- 9.0 Earthquakes.- 9.1 Tree-rings and earthquakes.- 9.2 Tree-ring analysis in natural hazards research - application of tree-ring analysis to paleoseismology.- 9.3 Tree-ring abnormality caused by large earthquake: an example from the 1931 M 8.0 Fuyun earthquake.- 9.4 Tree-ring dated ladslide movements and seismic events in southwestern Montana, USA.- 9.5 Seismic damage in conifers from Olympic and Yellowstone National Parks, United States.- 10 Volcanic activity.- 10.1 Studying past volcanic activity with tree-rings.- 10.2 Tree-ring evidence for 1913 eruption of Volcán de Fuego de Colima, Mexico.- 10.3 Dendrochemical evidence of the 1781 eruption of Mount Hood, Oregon.- 10.4 Volcanic eruptions over the last 5,000 years from high elevation tree-ring widths and frost rings.- 10.5


Best Sellers



Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789400732179
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Depth: 32
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 505
  • Series Title: Advances in Global Change Research
  • Sub Title: A State-of-Art
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 9400732171
  • Publisher Date: 28 Jun 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: 2010 ed.
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 27 mm
  • Weight: 775 gr


Similar Products

Add Photo
Add Photo

Customer Reviews

REVIEWS      0     
Click Here To Be The First to Review this Product
Tree Rings and Natural Hazards
Springer -
Tree Rings and Natural Hazards
Writing guidlines
We want to publish your review, so please:
  • keep your review on the product. Review's that defame author's character will be rejected.
  • Keep your review focused on the product.
  • Avoid writing about customer service. contact us instead if you have issue requiring immediate attention.
  • Refrain from mentioning competitors or the specific price you paid for the product.
  • Do not include any personally identifiable information, such as full names.

Tree Rings and Natural Hazards

Required fields are marked with *

Review Title*
Review
    Add Photo Add up to 6 photos
    Would you recommend this product to a friend?
    Tag this Book Read more
    Does your review contain spoilers?
    What type of reader best describes you?
    I agree to the terms & conditions
    You may receive emails regarding this submission. Any emails will include the ability to opt-out of future communications.

    CUSTOMER RATINGS AND REVIEWS AND QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TERMS OF USE

    These Terms of Use govern your conduct associated with the Customer Ratings and Reviews and/or Questions and Answers service offered by Bookswagon (the "CRR Service").


    By submitting any content to Bookswagon, you guarantee that:
    • You are the sole author and owner of the intellectual property rights in the content;
    • All "moral rights" that you may have in such content have been voluntarily waived by you;
    • All content that you post is accurate;
    • You are at least 13 years old;
    • Use of the content you supply does not violate these Terms of Use and will not cause injury to any person or entity.
    You further agree that you may not submit any content:
    • That is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
    • That infringes any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
    • That violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising);
    • That is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory, libelous, hateful, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation;
    • For which you were compensated or granted any consideration by any unapproved third party;
    • That includes any information that references other websites, addresses, email addresses, contact information or phone numbers;
    • That contains any computer viruses, worms or other potentially damaging computer programs or files.
    You agree to indemnify and hold Bookswagon (and its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, employees and third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.), harmless from all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of a breach of your representations and warranties set forth above, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.


    For any content that you submit, you grant Bookswagon a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable right and license to use, copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell, transfer, and/or distribute such content and/or incorporate such content into any form, medium or technology throughout the world without compensation to you. Additionally,  Bookswagon may transfer or share any personal information that you submit with its third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc. in accordance with  Privacy Policy


    All content that you submit may be used at Bookswagon's sole discretion. Bookswagon reserves the right to change, condense, withhold publication, remove or delete any content on Bookswagon's website that Bookswagon deems, in its sole discretion, to violate the content guidelines or any other provision of these Terms of Use.  Bookswagon does not guarantee that you will have any recourse through Bookswagon to edit or delete any content you have submitted. Ratings and written comments are generally posted within two to four business days. However, Bookswagon reserves the right to remove or to refuse to post any submission to the extent authorized by law. You acknowledge that you, not Bookswagon, are responsible for the contents of your submission. None of the content that you submit shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of Bookswagon, its agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners or third party service providers (including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.)and their respective directors, officers and employees.

    Accept

    New Arrivals



    Inspired by your browsing history


    Your review has been submitted!

    You've already reviewed this product!