Mathematics for Geographers and Planners. (Contemporary Problems in Geography)

Mathematics for Geographers and Planners: Contemporary Problems in Geography

Politics & Social Sciences

Kirkby, M. J.

Wilson, A.G.

Politics & Government

Clarendon Press

Mathematics for Geographers and Planners (Contemporary Problems in Geography)

The second edition of this textbook has been substantially enlarged. It now includes a chapter on catastrophe theory and bifurcation, which bring these recently developed techniques within the range of the geographer; and allows for a considerable increase in the number of exercises and worked examples. These are provided to help the student master the mathematics and to relate mathematical methods to geographical problems. The examples are taken from recent literature and from the classical models of von Thunen, Weber and others. Geographical statisticians; spatial analysts; students of planning.

Science & Math

Mathematics

Oxford University Press

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History

This hands-on training manual in physical geography assumes no previous knowledge of simulation methods. Part 1 shows how to formulate models, beginning with generalized systems diagrams and continuing through to mathematical and logical expressions. In Part 2, modelling concepts are treated in a more advanced manner, showing ways in which to get the best out of the models presented in Part 1. The process of model formulation is developed more fully with discussion of styles and the relations of models to real-life problems. Part 3 presents more complex models which have been used in pure and applied research. These models demonstrate the potential of modelling in the field of physical geography. Includes computer listings for many programs.

Computer Simulation in Physical Geography

Burt, Tim

Naden, P. S.

Butcher, D. P.

Earth Sciences

wiley

Computer Simulation in Physical Geography Second Edition M.J. Kirkby, University of Leeds, UK, P.S. Naden, Institute of Hydrology, UK, T.P. Burt, University of Oxford, UK and D.P. Butcher, University of Huddersfield, UK Simulation modelling has grown in importance in geographical teaching and project work ever since microcomputers have become widely available. By developing a broad range of usable programs in an environmental context, this second edition of Computer Simulation in Physical Geography may be used both as a physical geography textbook and as a pathway to learning standard programming, since substantial sections of the book are devoted to the design, formulation and best use of programs. The book opens with an introduction to the subject, followed by a series of chapters each of which is devoted to a different type of model, including black box models, process models, mass and energy balance models, and stochastic models. The second half of the book contains methods for model or program formulation and various means of verifying and calibrating models against field data. The choice of an appropriate model for a given situation is considered, together with the building of rationally based computer simulations from geographical assumptions. Example programs are drawn from ecology, hydrology, meteorology and hillslope and fluvial geomorphology, and these give a flavour of current research trends. All programs are contained on a supplementary disk in Microsoft QuickBASIC, QBASIC (standard with DOS 5-0) or GWBASIC (standard with earlier DOS versions). The distinct advantages of this second edition over the first are the major changes that have been made in updating the programs to the more structured environment of QuickBASIC, which also enables the utilisation of the superior CGA, EGA and VGA graphics on current DOS systems.

Computer Simulation in Physical Geography, 2nd Edition

A complete guide to the behavior of water on graded land 
Hillslope Hydrology provides a comprehensive introduction to the behavior of water on a slope. Describing the fates of precipitation, the mechanics of runoff, and the calculations involved in assessment, this book clarifies the complex interplay of soils, sediment, subsurface flow, overland flow, saturation, erosion, and more. An ideal resource for graduate students of Earth science, environmental science, civil engineering, architecture, landscape management, and related fields, this informative guide provides the essential information needed to work effectively with graded land or predict outcomes of precipitation.

Hillslope Hydrology

Hillslopes occupy most the landscape. Studies of process mechanisms and rates have become sufficiently numerous to allow a systematic study of slopes. Only by making a synthesis of quantitative process studies and relating them to the development of slope forms can the shape of the landscape be understood and the separate effects of lithology and climate assessed. In the introductory part of this book, the choice of appropriate system and scale is discussed, and models for uplift and erosion evaluated. Attention is thus focused on the dynamic equilibrium of the slope profile and its erosional development over time. Part I then examines the forces encouraging hillslope movement and the resistances opposing movement. Part 2 considers processes of rock instability, soil instability, wash, solution and soil creep. Each is discussed in terms of its mechanism and rate of operation, and the slope provides it produces. Part 3 outlines how this systematic approach may be applied to areas of different climate and the extent to which there is an assemblage of processes characteristic of each area. In part 4, the process evidence and models are combined into theoretical sequences of slope profile development, and the effect of contour curvature in modifying these profiles on spurts and in hollows is examined.

Hillslope Form and Process (Cambridge Geographical Studies, Series Number 3)

Carson, M. A.

Social Sciences

Cambridge University Press

Hillslopes occupy most the landscape. Studies of process mechanisms and rates have become sufficiently numerous to allow a systematic study of slopes. Only by making a synthesis of quantitative process studies and relating them to the development of slope forms can the shape of the landscape be understood and the separate effects of lithology and climate assessed. In the introductory part of this book, the choice of appropriate system and scale is discussed, and models for uplift and erosion evaluated. Attention is thus focused on the dynamic equilibrium of the slope profile and its erosional development over time. Part I then examines the forces encouraging hillslope movement and the resistances opposing movement. Part 2 considers processes of rock instability, soil instability, wash, solution and soil creep. Each is discussed in terms of its mechanism and rate of operation, and the slope provides it produces. Part 3 outlines how this systematic approach may be applied to areas of different climate and the extent to which there is an assemblage of processes characteristic of each area. In part 4, the process evidence and models are combined into theoretical sequences of slope profile development, and the effect of contour curvature in modifying these profiles on spurts and in hollows is examined.

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Mathematics for Geographers and Planners: Contemporary Problems in Geography

Mathematics for Geographers and Planners (Contemporary Problems in Geography)

Mathematics for Geographers and Planners (Contemporary Problems in Geography)

Computer Simulation in Physical Geography

Computer Simulation in Physical Geography, 2nd Edition

Hillslope Hydrology

Hillslope Form and Process (Cambridge Geographical Studies, Series Number 3)

Hillslope Form and Process (Cambridge Geographical Studies, Series Number 3)