Hydrology and the hydrosphere

This book highlights the development of DSS and presents their application and the lessons learned from the obtained silver lining.

This book is designed to share current knowledge on the effects of climate change on drinking water scarcity and safety, as well as public health, and to offer solutions to these global challenges.

This book addresses environmental challenges related to pollutant transport in rivers and estuaries through computational and mathematical modeling, optimization techniques, and computational intelligence.

This book addresses environmental challenges related to pollutant transport in rivers and estuaries through computational and mathematical modeling, optimization techniques, and computational intelligence.

This book highlights the development of DSS and presents their application and the lessons learned from the obtained silver lining.

This book is designed to share current knowledge on the effects of climate change on drinking water scarcity and safety, as well as public health, and to offer solutions to these global challenges.

This book addresses the escalating demand for advanced tertiary wastewater treatment, driven by environmental, regulatory, and public health challenges, with a particular focus on techniques and methodologies that ensure superior effluent quality, highlighting the imperative for sustainable water management.

This book addresses the escalating demand for advanced tertiary wastewater treatment, driven by environmental, regulatory, and public health challenges, with a particular focus on techniques and methodologies that ensure superior effluent quality, highlighting the imperative for sustainable water management.

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In this book, the authors address present-day methodology to explore natural phenomena.

Arctic marine ecosystems are largely impacted by changes associated with global warming.

Against the backdrop of the environmental setting of the subequatorial NE Pacific abyssal plain, the book will characterise the meiobenthos as an ecological category in the deep sea and introduce research lines meiobenthic studies are applied to, including environmental assessments of human-induced disturbance of the deep seafloor.

To better understand the various processes and interactions that govern the Earth system and to determine whether recent human-induced changes could ultimately de-stabilise its dynamics, both natural system variability and the consequences of human activities have to be observed and quantified.

To understand hydrochemistry and to analyze natural as well as man-made impacts on aquatic systems, hydrogeochemical models have been used since the 1960's and more frequently in recent times.

It is being increasingly realised that water is likely to be one of the most critical resource issues for the first half of the twenty-first century.

The work aims at answering the question as to how far discourses on human security are present in Jordan and Israel, if they converge and if political solutions for the issue of water security could be derived.

This book presents research on a kind of water use conflicts that is becoming more and more common and important: How to best manage moving water in times of increasing demand for electricity as well as environmental services.

The focus of this work is the development of models to estimate evapotranspiration (ET), investigating the partitioning between soil evaporation and plant transpiration at field and regional scales, and calculating ET over heterogeneous vegetated surfaces.

As one of the eighteen field-specific reports comprising the comprehensive scope of the strategic general report of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, this sub-report addresses long-range planning for developing science and technology in the field of water science.

This study describes the fundamentals of assessing the vulnerability of coral islands, as well as environmental management and resource exploitation.

Establishing multi-scale optimal water allocation modes which takes the enhancement of utilization efficiency as core is a research hotspot for the international water resources management of river basins.

Since climate and land use strongly affect the runoff pattern and intensity of solute export, it is likely that some observations and conclusions formulated on the basis of investigations carried out in forested catchment may not be fully adequate to describe controls on solute export from agricultural watersheds.

The TRANSMED Atlas, a CD-ROM-and-book package, provides an unprecedented overview of the geological and geophysical characteristics of the Mediterranean region.

In the framework of the Diderot Mathematical Forum (DMF) of the European Mathematical Society (EMS), December 19-20, 1997, a Videoconference was held linking three teams of specialists in Amsterdam, Madrid and Venice respectively.

The book gives an outline of prevailing hydrogeologic conditions in the Arab Middle East together with the geologic background.

This book provides essential background knowledge on the development of model-based real-world solutions in the field of control and decision making for water systems.

The first evidence on the adverse effects of organic pollutants on Arctic ecosystems was provided by international research initiatives more than 30 years ago.

Persistent organic contaminants, which are bioaccumulative and toxic are a concern for the ecosystems and human health and are regulated under international law (global and regional conventions, besides other).

Many cooling systems use water as cooling medium.

A growing proportion of the world's population is dependent on Seawater Desalination as a source of fresh water for both potable and civil use.

Wave energy is reaching a critical stage, following over three decades of intensive research and development.

Over the last few decades inversion concepts have become an integral part of experimental data interpretation in several branches of science.

Since 1980 a considerable amount of scientific research dealing with geochemical processes in marine sediments has been carried out.

A major task for physical oceanographers is to determine the movement of oceanic water from observations.

Considerable attention has been given during the past few years to the water crisis that many regions of the world may face in the coming decades.

This literature study presents an overview of underwater acoustic networking.

This study presents a unique way to utilize the existing literature to explain the success of treaties in managing hydrologic stress.

Computational methods and modelling is of growing importance in fundamental science as well as in applications in industry and in environmental research.

The Arctic sea ice is characterized by profound changes caused by surface melting processes and the formation of melt ponds in summer.

Population: Answering the Needs and Demands The world's human populationis 6.

One of the most dire consequences of global climate change for coral reefs is the increased frequency and severity of mass coral bleaching events.

Althoughthisisacompanion volume tomypreviousbook Measuring the Oceans from Space, published in 2004, it approaches the subject from a di?

More so than other ecosystems, urban rivers typify our evolving relationship with nature.

Physical Oceanography of the Dying Aral Sea describes the background, present crisis state, and possible future of this peculiar inland water body from the physical oceanographic standpoint.

This book represents the most comprehensive description of the physical properties including geometry, structure, spatio-temporal evolution and remotely sensed reflectance and emissivity in visible, IR and microwave ranges of one of the most important elements of disturbed sea surface - sea waves breaking.

The author presents in The Drift of Sea Ice the fundamental laws of sea ice drift which come from the material properties of sea ice and the basic laws of mechanics.

"e;Polar Seas Oceanography"e; describes a new tool called the Generic Model System for simulations and assessment of potential radioactive spreading in the Arctic regions, through rivers, estuaries, regional seas and the Arctic and Atlantic basin.

Buried waste on the seabed is a major source of pollution.