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The ancient Romans changed more than the map of the world when they conquered so much of it; they altered the way historical time itself is marked and understood. In this brilliant, erudite, and exhilarating book Denis Feeney investigates time and its contours as described by the ancient Romans, first as Rome positioned itself in relation to Greece and then as it exerted its influence as a major world power. Feeney welcomes the reader into a world where time was movable and changeable and where simply ascertaining a date required a complex and often contentious cultural narrative. In a style that is lucid, fluent, and graceful, he investigates the pertinent systems, including the Roman calendar (which is still our calendar) and its near perfect method of capturing the progress of natural time; the annual rhythm of consular government; the plotting of sacred time onto sacred space; the forging of chronological links to the past; and, above all, the experience of empire, by which the Romans meshed the city state's concept of time with those of the foreigners they encountered to establish a new worldwide web of time. Because this web of time was Greek before the Romans transformed it, the book is also a remarkable study in the cross-cultural interaction between the Greek and Roman worlds. Feeney's skillful deployment of specialist material is engaging and accessible and ranges from details of the time schemes used by Greeks and Romans to accommodate the Romans' unprecedented rise to world dominance to an edifying discussion of the fixed axis of B.C./A.D., or B.C.E./C.E., and the supposedly objective "dates" implied. He closely examines the most important of the ancient world's time divisions, that between myth and history, and concludes by demonstrating the impact of the reformed calendar on the way the Romans conceived of time's recurrence. Feeney's achievement is nothing less than the reconstruction of the Roman conception of time, which has the additional effect of transforming the way the way the reader inhabits and experiences time.

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Satellite altimetry is a radar technique for measuring the topography of the Earth's surface. It was initially designed for measuring the ocean's topography, with reference to an ellipsoid, and for the determination of the marine geoid. Satellite altimetry has provided extremely valuable information on ocean science (e.g., circulation surface geostrophic currents, eddy structures, wave heights, and the propagation of oceanic Kelvin and Rossby waves). With more than 25 years of observations, it is also becoming vital to climate research, providing accurate measurements of sea level variations from regional to global scales. Altimetry has also demonstrated a strong potential for geophysical, cryospheric, and hydrological research and is now commonly used for the monitoring of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheet topography and of terrestrial surface water levels. This book aims to present reviews and recent advances of general interest in the use of radar altimetry in Earth sciences. Manuscripts are related to any aspect of radar altimetry technique or geophysical applications. We also encourage manuscripts resulting from the application of new altimetric technology (SAR, SARin, and Ka band) and improvements expected from missions to be launched in the near future (i.e., SWOT).

water level --- ALES --- wet path delay --- CryoSat-2 --- water volume transport --- water level time series --- storm surge --- filtering --- validation --- polar ocean --- ocean tides --- satellite altimetry --- lake level --- classification --- ENVISAT --- numerical modelling --- PISTACH --- water levels --- evaporation --- geodesy --- waveform --- ALES retracker --- waveform retracking --- unsupervised classification --- CryosSat-2 SAR --- peakiness --- Envisat --- Jason-2 --- calibration --- SARAL --- ACC --- microwave radiometer --- ocean geostrophy --- data processing --- fine scale --- SWOT --- orbit decay --- Aral Sea --- geodetic orbit --- radar altimetry --- oceanography --- streamflow --- K-medoids --- retracking --- ice --- SWOT simulator --- coastal altimetry --- Ka-band --- western Mediterranean Sea --- topography of the intertidal zone --- FVCOM --- HY-2A --- inland water --- tide gauge --- discharge --- ERS-2 --- marine gravity --- wet tropospheric correction --- South China Sea --- stack data --- upper layer thickness --- drifting orbit --- hydrology --- Sentinel-3 --- two-layer ocean model --- satellite geodesy --- Fram Strait --- space gravity --- leads --- satellite altimeter --- range precision --- sensor calibration --- ROMS model --- X-TRACK --- SAR --- Inner Niger Delta --- Greenland Sea --- Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) --- Mekong Basin --- altimetry --- Hong Kong coast --- soil moisture --- Argo --- Southern Ocean --- Landsat --- dielectric permittivity --- sea surface height --- lake volume