Installation of weather stations by the research group (left: Yahaya Bashiru, right: Maxime Colin), with a thunderstorm cloud cluster approaching in the background on 21 July 2023, Bremen (Germany).

The phases 1,2 can represent (liquid, solid), (solid, vapor) or (liquid, vapor) with the corresponding heats of transformation being the heat of melting, the heat of sublimation, and the heat of ...

Containing fully worked examples and real-world problems, this book first explains the key concepts of statistical and thermal physics and then applies them to a wide variety of phenomena.

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Flash floods resulting from extreme rainfall pose a major risk to people and infrastructure, especially in urban areas. Higher temperatures due to global climate change affect continuous rainfall and ...