Hydrology and the hydrosphere

This landmark scientific reference for scientists, researchers, and students of marine biology tackles the monumental task of taking a complete biodiversity inventory of the Gulf of Mexico with full biotic and biogeographic information.

Located where the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea converge, the Florida Keys are distinctive for their rich and varied marine fauna.

Upon the 100th anniversary of the most terrifying stretch of shark attacks in American history--a wave said to have been the inspiration for Jaws--comes a reissue of the classic Lyons Press account and investigation.

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The sharks, ancient or modern, real or imaginary, have always been with us, and will probably remain with us forever.

AS FEATURED IN SEASPIRACY An Observer Book of the Year 2017 A Sunday Times must read A New York Times Bestseller Endorsed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama ';Balcombe vividly shows that fish have feelings and deserve consideration and protection like other sentient beings' What's the truth behind the old adage that goldfish have a three-second memory?

Over the past decade, since the publication of the first edition, there have been new advances in solving complex geoinformatics problems.

This book presents the latest scientific views on resource use conflicts in the Arctic seas.

This book presents research on precipitation partitioning processes in vegetated ecosystems, putting them into a global context.

Advances in Marine Biology has been providing in-depth and up-to-date reviews on all aspects of marine biology since 1963 -- over 40 years of outstanding coverage!

This volume sheds new light on the marine fauna and geological setting of the Tjornes Sequence, North Iceland, which is a classic site for the Pliocene and Pleistocene stratigraphy of the North Atlantic region.

This volume provides a theoretical basis for the argument that available research that analyzes the impacts of climate on hydrology, water resources, and water systems, without factoring in the effect of climate variability, are inadequate and often misleading.

This book describes the importance of water resources for socio-economic and ecological development including geomorphic and ecological environments.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of mining, geology and geo-spatial technologies, as presented by leading researchers and engineers at the International Conference on Innovations for Sustainable and Responsible Mining (ISRM), held in Hanoi, Vietnam on October 15-17 2020.

This volume describes the complex characteristics of almost all Russian coastal estuaries systematized in the following regions: the coasts of the White Sea, the Barents Sea, the Kara Sea, the Laptev Sea, the East Siberian Sea, the Chukchi Sea, the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, the Baltic Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk, the Sea of Japan and the Bering Seas.

This book is situated at the cross-roads of environmental, agricultural and economic history and climate science.

This edited volume provides a variety of insights into the context in which ocean and wetlands policy is placed at the sub-continental level.

This book describes the work of the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) since its launch 1992.

This book presents essential new insights in research and applications concerning spatial information technologies and coastal disaster prevention modeling for oceanic and coastal regions.

This book provides results of spatial and temporal distributions of water quality parameters and marine primary production and its relationship with the driving atmospheric, ocean circulation and hydrobiological mechanisms established through a synergistic use of multi-spectral region spaceborne data and results of numerical model simulations of marine in-water and atmospheric processes related to the marine ecosystem.

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This volume presents the history of marine fog research and applications, and discusses the physical processes leading to fog's formation, evolution, and dissipation.

In the present scenario, green technologies are playing significant role in changing the course of nation's economic growth towards sustainability and providing an alternative socio-economic model that will enable present and future generations to live in a clean and healthy environment, in harmony with nature.

This book presents the most recent innovations, trends, concerns and practical challenges, and solutions in the field of water resources for arid areas.

Chile is a privileged country in terms of water resources, with an average annual runoff of approximately 50,000 m3/person.

This book offers a detailed examination of the main sources of Chile's water, its principle consumers, the gap between supply and demand, hydrological droughts, and future projected impacts of climate change.

This illustrated atlas describes 256 extant brachyuran crab species in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.

This book chiefly focuses on environmental flow, water pollution and water quality.

This classic textbook is an introduction to the systematics and the use of stable isotopes in geosciences.

This book describes the huge efforts by the Chinese Government concerning the restoration and future sustainable management of Chinese water systems.

The effects of climate change are beginning to impact water quantity and water quality across the globe.

This book presents a collection of chapters covering research on the Litani River Basin.

This book examines the operation of biological wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), with a focus on maintaining effluent water quality while keeping operational costs within constrained limits.

This book presents a picture of the advances in the research of theoretical and practical frameworks of wastewater problems and solutions.

This book includes a collection of research articles presented at the "e;6th International Workshop on Hydro Scheduling in Competitive Electricity Markets"e;.

Das Buch gibt eine Anleitung für das komplette Sanierungsspektrum, beginnend bei Grundstücksanschlüssen über die Zustandserfassung, Bewertung, Planung und die Ausführung der Renovierungsarbeiten bis zur Abnahme der Baumaßnahme sowie Gewährleistungsabnahme.

This volume approaches the history of water in the Iberian Peninsula in a novel way, by linking it to the ongoing international debate on water crisis and solutions to overcome the lack of water in the Mediterranean.

This book explains the role of geology as the basis of sustainability.

This book expands the body of scientific knowledge on research and solutions for alternative water systems.

This book is about the ocean and about the future.

This book features expert contributions on key sustainability aspects of urban water management in Chinese agglomerations.

This book presents the findings of recent theoretical and experimental studies of processes in the atmosphere, oceans and lithosphere, discussing their interactions, environmental issues, geology, problems related to human impacts on the environment, and methods of geophysical research.

This book presents a comprehensive selection of applications employed in environmental remote sensing using optical and thermal infrared satellite-sensors aiming to map natural resources, crops, groundwater, surface water, aquatic ecosystem, land degradation, air quality, renewable energy, regional resources, and climate-related geophysical processes.

This book explores the benefits of using risk analysis techniques in the evaluation of flood protection structures, and examines the results of the environmental impact assessment for selected planned flood protection projects.

This book draws on the author's professional experience and expertise in humid and arid regions to familiarize readers with the basic scientific philosophy and methods regarding floods and their impacts on human life and property.

This book analyzes the most important geohydrological aspects of the San Jorge Gulf Basin (Chubut and Santa Cruz provinces, Argentine Patagonia), with a particular focus on the physical and hydrodynamic characteristics of the system.

This volume presents a reconstruction of the formation of the environmental conditions and biota in the present-day Baltic Sea area during the last glacial cycle and thereafter under the influence of extra-terrestrial, climatic and geological factors.

This book provides an innovative, realistic and reliable solution to the common problem of Indian water and energy sector due to the onset of the Impact of Climate Change and Large-Scale Urbanization.

This book covers the entire Nile Basin and reflects the latest findings.

The focus of this publication is the uniqueness of the Baltic Sea from a legal perspective, and the regulatory voids that result from the multiple layers of regulation this area is subjected to: up to six layers of regulation (general international law, regional conventions, EU law, national laws, local and municipal rules plus a whole range of non-binding norms and other 'soft law' arrangements) act in parallel.