Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Challenges and Opportunities for Innovation in the Public Works Infrastructure
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Challenges and Opportunities for Innovation in the Public Works Infrastructure
Author: Moonja P. KimPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
Federal Public Works Infrastructure R & D
Author: Carl O. MagnellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Military infrastructure real property management needs improvement : report to the chairman and ranking minority member, Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support, Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Senate
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428974431
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Military Infrastructure
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Real property
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Issues in Deferred Maintenance
Author: Harry P. HatryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Living Within Constraints
Author: Institute for Water Resources (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Framing the Dialogue
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Toward Infrastructure Improvement
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309051444
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
This book advises the federal government on a national infrastructure research agenda. It takes the position that the traditional disciplinary and institutional divisions among infrastructure modes and professions are largely historical artifacts that impose barriers to the development of new technology and encourages the government to embrace a more interdisciplinary approach. In order to be practical, the study focuses on infrastructure technologies that can be incorporated into or overlay current systems, allow for alternative future alternative future urban development, and are likely to have value cutting across the distinct functional modes of infrastructure. Finally, the report is organized according to seven broad cross-cutting areas that should promote interdisciplinary approaches to infrastructure problems: systems life-cycle management, analysis and decision tools, information management, condition assessment and monitoring technology, the science of materials performance and deterioration, construction equipment and procedures, and technology management.
A National Strategy for Advancing Climate Modeling
Author: Committee on a National Strategy for Advancing Climate ModelingPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309259789
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
As climate change has pushed climate patterns outside of historic norms, the need for detailed projections is growing across all sectors, including agriculture, insurance, and emergency preparedness planning. A National Strategy for Advancing Climate Modeling emphasizes the needs for climate models to evolve substantially in order to deliver climate projections at the scale and level of detail desired by decision makers, this report finds. Despite much recent progress in developing reliable climate models, there are still efficiencies to be gained across the large and diverse U.S. climate modeling community. Evolving to a more unified climate modeling enterprise-in particular by developing a common software infrastructure shared by all climate researchers and holding an annual climate modeling forum-could help speed progress. Throughout this report, several recommendations and guidelines are outlined to accelerate progress in climate modeling. The U.S. supports several climate models, each conceptually similar but with components assembled with slightly different software and data output standards. If all U.S. climate models employed a single software system, it could simplify testing and migration to new computing hardware, and allow scientists to compare and interchange climate model components, such as land surface or ocean models. A National Strategy for Advancing Climate Modeling recommends an annual U.S. climate modeling forum be held to help bring the nation's diverse modeling communities together with the users of climate data. This would provide climate model data users with an opportunity to learn more about the strengths and limitations of models and provide input to modelers on their needs and provide a venue for discussions of priorities for the national modeling enterprise, and bring disparate climate science communities together to design common modeling experiments. In addition, A National Strategy for Advancing Climate Modeling explains that U.S. climate modelers will need to address an expanding breadth of scientific problems while striving to make predictions and projections more accurate. Progress toward this goal can be made through a combination of increasing model resolution, advances in observations, improved model physics, and more complete representations of the Earth system. To address the computing needs of the climate modeling community, the report suggests a two-pronged approach that involves the continued use and upgrading of existing climate-dedicated computing resources at modeling centers, together with research on how to effectively exploit the more complex computer hardware systems expected over the next 10 to 20 years.