Earth sciences

Applied Underwater Acoustics meets the needs of scientists and engineers working in underwater acoustics and graduate students solving problems in, and preparing theses on, topics in underwater acoustics.

Das Buch stellt das Klimageschehen in der Vergangenheit der Erde unter Verwendung neuester wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse in einen globalen Zusammenhang.

A multitude of direct and indirect human influences have significantly altered the environmental conditions, composition, and diversity of marine communities.

There are several books on properties of chitin and associated biomolecules and their biochemical significance.

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Diese Einführung in die Anwendung der geostatistischen Methoden basiert auf langjährigen Lehrerfahrungen und praktischen Tätigkeiten der Autoren und eignet sich hervorragend als Begleitbuch zu Vorlesungen und Kursen, wobei nur geringe Kenntnisse der Statistik vorausgesetzt werden.

Containment and permeable reactive barriers have come full circle as an acceptable environmental control technology during the past 30 years.

Through research, physical oceanography aims to solve the numerous problems stated by thermal, optical and dynamical properties of the oceans.

Die Entwicklung immer leistungsfähigerer absoluter wie auch relativer Gravimeter mit deutlich verbesserter Messgenauigkeit ermöglicht es, dass sich künftig nicht nur prägnante Schwereanomalien (wie z.

This volume explores major wetland ecosystem services, such as climate cooling and water quality improvement, and discusses the recent wetland conservation and restoration activities in China and neighboring countries.

The Next Economics focuses on how the field of economics must change and incorporate environment, energy, health and new technologies that are called externalities for stopping and reversing climate change.

In this updated and expanded second edition, new literature has been added on contaminant fate in the soil-subsurface environment.

Coastal meteorology is an integral part of the total system approach to understanding coastal environments.

3D DIGITAL GEOLOGICAL MODELS Discover the practical aspects of modeling techniques and their applicability on both terrestrial and extraterrestrial structures A wide overlap exists in the methodologies used by geoscientists working on the Earth and those focused on other planetary bodies in the Solar System.

Earth science satellite remote sensing has been rapidly expanding during the last decade.

Machine learning has led to incredible achievements in many different fields of science and technology.

Focusing on fundamental principles, Hydro-Environmental Analysis: Freshwater Environments presents in-depth information about freshwater environments and how they are influenced by regulation.

,Risk Governance is a tour de force.

This book is the published record of the papers presented at a conference of the Norwegian Petroleum Society (NPF) held in Bergen, Norway, on 3-5 October, 1988.

Integrated Approaches to Sustainable Watershed Management in Xeric Environments: A Training Manual provides the reader with the tools they need to understand an integrated approach to watershed management.

Most industrial and natural materials exhibit a macroscopic behaviour which results from the existence of microscale inhomogeneities.

This book describes the urgent challenge faced by cities worldwide to become resilient to climate change impacts.

In some important respects floodplain management and flood hazard research is different in Britain from that in other countries.

This book promotes a better understanding of the role of the sun on natural climate variability.

This book provides 1-page short biographies of scientists and engineers having worked in the areas of hydraulic engineering and fluid dynamics in the USA.

The earth where we live is the only planet of our solar system that holds a mass of water we know as the ocean, covering 70.

Fire plays a key role in Earth system processes.

Increasingly, in the field of earth observation imagery, there is a need for image quality to be assessable in traceable Standard International Units (SIU), and for the standardization of common mapping projections.

Today's engineering and geoscience student needs to know more than how to design a new or remedial project or facility.

Water and Wastewater Engineering Technology presents the basic concepts and applications of water and wastewater engineering technology.

This book presents a study that establishes a set of diagnostic parameters for characterizing the behavior of a geological medium stimulated by external fields and their interactions as a physical basis for developing new methods in exploration geophysics.

This book presents a novel approach to the classical scientific discipline of Structural Engineering, which is inspired by numerous current applications from domains of Civil, Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering.

Based on modern clinical knowledge Palaeopathology is designed to help bone specialists with diagnosis of diseases in skeletal assemblages.

Mendip - Its Swallet Caves and Rock Shelters, Second Edition provides detailed descriptions of caves and rock shelters of the Mendip Hills.

In 2000, various UN organizations launched a collaborative effort to assess the vulnerability of groundwater in several African cities.

In the past several years, there have been significant technological advances in the field of crisis response.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

"e;Models are often the only way of interpreting measurements to in- vestigate long-range transport, and this is the reason for the emphasis on them in many research programs"e;.

This book presents the biodiversity of the Brazilian deep-sea and its many unique geological and biological features, as well as a review of its ecology, conservation, and future research needs.

Mesoscale Meteorology in Mid-Latitudes presents the dynamics of mesoscale meteorological phenomena in a highly accessible, student-friendly manner.

The Chesapeake Bay is North America's largest and most biologically diverse estuary, as well as an important commercial and recreational resource.

Airless Bodies of the Inner Solar System: Understanding the Process Affecting Rocky, Airless Surfaces focuses on the airless, rocky bodies in the inner solar system as a host unto themselves, with a unique set of processes that require a specific set of investigative techniques.

Innovative and Hybrid Technologies for Wastewater Treatment and Recycling investigates the biological and non-biological features of the treatment process for wastewater and emphasizes the benefits that these aspects bring for sustainable engineering.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Climate Change, Community Response, and Resilience: Insight for Socio-Ecological Sustainability, Volume Six presents a fundamental theoretical framework for understanding how community resilience and risk assessment affect climate change adaptation behavior.

Natural pesticides and allelochemicals are used for protection against invasive plants, but when released into the environment they can have both positive and negative effects on plants.