Hydrology and the hydrosphere

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.

Karst aquifers are important sources of drinking water worldwide.

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 reviews the drinking water treatments in which AOPs display a high application potential.

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.

This will be the first textbook on the integration of food, energy and water systems (FEWS).

This book focuses on developing an integrated holistic approach for harnessing the potential of rain-fed agriculture.

This book aims to serve as a centralized reference document for students and researchers interested in aspects of marine nitrogen fixation.

This volume investigates the challenges facing the Egyptian Northern coastal lakes, focusing on the impact of climate change, their biodiversity and sustainable management.

This book provides a comprehensive, systematic overview of original theoretical, experimental, and numerical studies in the building services engineering domain.

This book focuses on holistic approaches to sustainability in all sectors of building, infrastructure, and energy to achieve a best-balanced global energy, building, infrastructure, transportation, and water technology (EBITW) system using a series of innovative research and implementation solutions.

This Brief reports on heat transfer from a solid boundary in a saturated porous medium.

Emerging contaminants are chemical and biological agents for which there is growing concern about their potential health and environmental effects.

This unique book shares the knowledge and experience of experts and scientists who apply high-quality findings and input from their research to issues concerning the management of water resources and their quality in Baltic countries including Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany and Russia.

This book contains a rich resource of essential information on the water resources capacities in Poland.

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This book presents the first comprehensive assessment of water resources in Pakistan including surface water resources and groundwater resources.