Hydrology and the hydrosphere

If you are looking to find new ways to ignite your children's imagination, a picture book on large sea creatures may be one of the better options.

Agriculture is the backbone of the economy in most countries and its output can be impacted by climate change effects.

This book provides comprehensive and in-depth explanations of all topics related to quantitative remote sensing and its applications in terrestrial, biospheric, hydrospheric, and atmospheric studies.

An authoritative reference on soil physics, Soil Physics Companion is lavishly illustrated with graphs, charts, line drawings, and equations.

Extreme weather events, droughts, floods, shifts in precipitation and temperature patterns, melting glaciers, sea-level rise, water salinization, and more generally, changes in the water cycle remind us that the climate crisis is mostly a water crisis.

Understanding the Oceans brings together an internationally distinguished group of authors to consider the enormous advances in marine science that have been achieved since the voyages of HMS Challenger a century ago.

This book introduces the concept of "e;oceanic strategy,"e; expanding beyond traditional maritime and naval perspectives to include political, economic, socio-cultural, and ecological dimensions.

This book presents an updated state-of-the-art for managed aquifer recharge (MAR) for MENA regions.

As a vital human need, water has been absolutely critical to decisions as to where cities originate, how much they grow and the standard of living of the inhabitants.

This book examines the nature of flood in different landscapes and the various factors that contribute to flooding in different areas.

Many environmental problems contain incomplete data in the initial or boundary conditions.

Subduction zones, one of the three types of plate boundaries, return Earth's surface to its deep interior.

This detailed volume provides an overview of recent advances in the application of genomic technologies in several domains of marine biology, raising awareness of various DNA- and RNA-based technologies.

Groundwater is an increasingly important resource to human populations around the world, and the study and protection of groundwater is an essential part of hydrogeology - the subset of hydrology that concentrates on the subsurface.

The last three decades have witnessed serious deterioration of major Kashmir lakes (Wular, Dal, Nigeen, Anchar and Manasbal) due to the pollution of their water and large-scale encroachment into their surroundings.

This book includes diverse perspectives on the water scarcity problem for global communities.

This book provides a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the morphodynamic process of the Changjiang River from upstream to estuary in the Anthropocene.

In this "e;Tropical Peatland Eco-management"e; book, eco-management is new terminology as an abbreviation of "e;ecology-based management for natural capital enhancement"e;.

This book focuses on the emerging health issues due to climate change, particularly emphasizing the situation in developing countries.

Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) as a form of radar to create images of objects, uses the motion of the radar antenna over a targeted region to provide finer spatial resolution than is possible with conventional beam-scanning radars by mounting the antenna on a moving platform such as an aircraft or spacecraft.

This book focuses on governance and management issues in the much publicized 'Ganga Rejuvenation Project', led by the Indian Prime Minister Mr.

Volume V of theSix Volume Remote Sensing Handbook, Second Edition, is focused on the use of remote sensing technologies for studying water resources, including groundwater, floods, snow and ice, and wetlands.

The special focus of this proceeding is to cover the areas of infrastructure engineering and sustainability management.

This Brief deals with the reconstruction of Holocene paleoenvironment in the central part of Bangladesh in relation to relative sea-level (RSL) changes which is 200 km north from the present coastline.

The uncontrolled utilization of natural resources to supply to the water demands of the ever-growing population has brought about worldwide scarcity.

The advent of Earth-observing satellites has revolutionised the gathering of oceanographic data and the visualisation of oceanographic processes.

This book brings together a comprehensive account of major developments in the theory and applications of nonlinear dispersive waves, nonlinear water waves, KdV and nonlinear Schrodinger equations, Davey-Stewartson equation, Benjamin-Ono equation and nonlinear instability phenomena.

These proceedings contain papers by some of the world's leading experts in the analytical and numerical modelling of sediment transport, its measurement on site and in the laboratory, river and coastal morphology, and similar issues.

This volume is dedicated to Dr Ding Lee for his untiring efforts in promoting the advancement of theoretical and computational acoustics.

Understanding and constructively using natural sound in the ocean has become of prime importance with the shift of emphasis to protecting the environment and exercising responsible global resource management which has followed the end of the Cold War.

The ocean is the ultimate sink for all liquid waste and has for many years been the recipient of both treated and untreated sewage waste.

This volume contains six papers discussing coastal processes, and physical and numerical modeling.

The central theme, which threads through the entire book, concerns computational modeling methods for water.

New Edition: Ocean Surface Waves: Their Physics and Prediction (3rd Edition)This book is intended as a handbook for professionals and researchers in the areas of Physical Oceanography, Ocean and Coastal Engineering and as a text for graduate students in these fields.

This book communicates some contemporary mathematical and statistical developments in river basin hydrology as they pertain to space-time rainfall, spatial landform and network structures and their role in understanding averages and fluctuations in the hydrologic water balance of river basins.

This book contains updated, reviewed versions of the best papers on "e;Modelling Coastal Sea Processes"e; presented at the International Ocean and Atmosphere Pacific Conference, held in Adelaide, South Australia, on 23-27 October 1995.

This book contains updated, reviewed versions of some selected papers on "e;Sea-Level Changes and their Effects"e; presented at the International Ocean and Atmosphere Pacific Conference (OAP 95), held in Adelaide, South Australia, 23-27 October 1995.

The geosciences, particularly numerical weather prediction, are demanding the highest levels of available computer power.

This book presents the experience of coastal and port engineering development, as well as coastal environmental problems, in Asian and Pacific countries.

This book aims to present the overall existing tsunami hazard in the Caribbean Sea region, a region which is typically only associated with hurricanes.

This review volume is divided into two parts.

Advances in Geosciences is the result of a concerted effort to bring together the latest results and planning activities related to earth and space science in Asia and the international arena.

Advances in Geosciences is the result of a concerted effort to bring together the latest results and planning activities related to earth and space science in Asia and the international arena.

Coastal Dynamics 2009 is the sixth conference in a sequence of technical speciality conferences bringing together field and laboratory experimentalists, theoreticians and modelers conducting research on the dynamics of the coastal systems.

This book discusses the protection, planning, and design of sustainable urban water environments.

The objective of this book is to introduce new researchers to the rich dynamical system of water waves, and to show how (some) abstract mathematical concepts can be applied fruitfully in a practical physical problem and to make the connection between theory and experiment.

This book comprehensively accounts the advances in data-based approaches for hydrologic modeling and forecasting.