Hydrology and the hydrosphere

Multivariate Frequency Analysis of Hydro-Meteorological Variables: A Copula-Based Approach provides comprehensive and detailed descriptions of the approaches and techniques used in multivariate frequency analysis (including, but not limited to copula functions), with illustrative examples and real-life case studies provided.

The past half century has seen an evolution in thinking from 'flood control' to 'flood risk management', recognizing that risk results from both hazard and vulnerability.

Elements of Marine Ecology, Fifth Edition focuses on marine ecology as a coherent science, providing undergraduate students with an essential foundation of knowledge in the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems.

This book describes the existential threats facing the global water systems from population growth and economic development, unsustainable use, environmental change, and weak and fragmented governance.

Microbial ecology is pivotal in wastewater treatment, where microorganisms play a vital role in breaking down organic matter and ultimately reduce the levels of contaminants in treated water, making it safe for reuse in agriculture, industry, and other applications.

This book contains selected peer-reviewed papers presented in the International Conference Down To Earth 2019, and is focused on Water Security and Sustainability.

This new reference book reports on research studies on sustainable water treatment and ecosystem protection strategies.

This book set is a revised version of the 2005 edition of Theory and Applications of Ocean Surface Waves.

Modelling is now an accepted part in the understanding, prediction and planning of environmental strategies.

This book is a new and provocative treatment dealing with and defining sustainable pathways for the restoration of the Mississippi Delta.

This book presents methods for investigating the effects of aquatic environmental changes on organisms and the mechanisms involved.

Water scarcity is not simply the result of what nature has to offer but always involves power relations and political decisions.

Over the last decade the concept of clustering has become a central idea for analyzing the competitiveness of nations, industries and firms.

Visual Spatial Enquiry explores visual and textual ways of working within spatial research.

This book is an overview of current state of the art about monitoring of inundation events through remote sensing.

The generation of offshore energy is a rapidly growing sector, competing for space in an already busy seascape.

This book discusses temporal changes in six Asia-Pacific marginal seas and two west boundary currents in the Northwest Pacific.

This book is a useful guide to employing remote sensing data to explain and illustrate interactions between atmospheric, oceanic and hydrological processes, incorporating the latest developments in the field.

This book addresses societal relationships to river systems, highlighting many unexplored possibilities in how we know and manage our rivers.

This book is useful to those in water resources management and policy formulations, hydrologists, environmentalists, engineers and researchers.

Wetlands are an important, and sadly diminishing, habitat in many parts of the world.

Computational hydraulics and hydrologic modeling are rapidly developing fields with a wide range of applications in areas ranging from wastewater disposal and stormwater management to civil and environmental engineering.

In developing countries, access to the adequate sanitation systems is still limited, and a new business model is required.

This book explores how we can solve the urgent problem of optimizing the use of variable, uncertain but finite fisheries resources while maintaining sustainability from a marine-ecosystem conservation perspective.

This book demonstrates various types of deepwater risers with different motion equations and boundary conditions depending on their different structural configurations.

This book focuses on the ways in which military installations and small cities can implement and integrate triple net planning and energy, water, and waste sustainability strategies into broad installation operational management, arrive at the best decision, create policy and communicate effectively to stakeholders.

Das Buch stellt die gesamte Bandbreite des Mikroplastikproblems in unseren Gewässern vor, von der Entnahme von Wasserproben bis zu deren Analyse und Interpretation.

This atlas aims to provide a 'one-stop' reference source of basic data on tropical marine ciliates that should be used for researchers worldwide.

This textbook employs a technical and quantitative approach to explain subsurface hydrology and hydrogeology, and to offer a comprehensive overview of groundwater-related topics such as flow in porous media, aquifer characterization, contaminant description and transport, risk assessment, and groundwater remediation.

Thisbook focuses on the recent results of the research project funded by aGrant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) of the Japan Society for the Promotionof Science (No.

This book presents worked examples of five analytical procedures.

The focus of this book is on the key water-related vulnerabilities to climate change in Africa, particularly in its most vulnerable areas, exploring potential management responses to such vulnerabilities.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.

This book presents the design and development of an Internet of Things (IoT) enabled, smart sensor to detect nitrate contamination in natural water.

Intertidal mudflats are distinct, highly-productive marine habitats which provide important ecosystem services to the land-sea interface.

This complete reference to marine renewable energy covers aspects of resource characterization and physical effects of harvesting the ocean's vast and powerful resources-from wave and tidal stream to ocean current energy.

This book presents an overview of the hydrometeorological and hydrological studies and assists in tackling challenges posed by climate and land use land cover changes.

This book offers an overview of the recent studies and advances in environmental catalysis by nanomaterials, considering both the fundamental and the technological aspects.

This book traces "e;water"e; back to the most primitive animistic notions that are still lingering on in the shape of such rituals as qanat marriage or rain-making.

This book aims to give a holistic overview of the pond ecosystem of Indian Sundarbans.

This book discusses how aquatic microbial communities develop interactive metabolic coordination both within and between species to optimize their energetics.

This book covers the full spectrum of water and environment conservation, offering management lessons, identifying the barriers to transformative change, and then presenting agendas and initiatives for sustainable global water and environment management.

This textbook covers all related communication technologies of underwater wireless communication, such as acoustic communication, optical communication, and magneto-inductive communication.

The small water bodies such as headwater streams, springs, ditches, small lakes, and ponds are critical to maintaining freshwater biodiversity.

This book considers the formation of the signal reflected from the sea surface when sensing in the radio and optical range.

The book gives an overview of the tectonic, geological, potential fields, etc maps of the Arctic that were compiled during geological and geophysical studies conducted in the Arctic over the past 15 years under the International project "e;Atlas of Geological Maps of the Circumpolar Arctic at a scale of 5M"e; and presents the results of geological, geophysical, paleogeographic and tectonic studies carried out in the Arctic Ocean and the Eastern Arctic during the implementation of national mapping and scientific programmes and studies intended to provide scientific substantiation for the extension of the continental shelf (ECS).

The book provides an overview on national policies and regulations related to water resource management in the Middle East and North African countries (MENA), where water scarcity problems are critical.

This book focusses on hydrological modeling, water management, and water governance.

This book covers the role of water in global atmospheric phenomena, focussing on the physical processes involving water molecules and water microparticles.

The "e;Blue Economy"e; is used to describe all of the economic activities related to the sea, with a special emphasis on sustainability.