Earth sciences

The aim of this publication is the understanding of large floods and their impact on the Earth's surface.

The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management is developing a technology roadmap to guide planning and possible future congressional appropriations for its technology development programs.

A holistic overview of soil fauna, their contributions to ecosystem function, and implications of global change belowground.

Applied Statistical Modeling and Data Analytics: A Practical Guide for the Petroleum Geosciences provides a practical guide to many of the classical and modern statistical techniques that have become established for oil and gas professionals in recent years.

Specialists in building and civil engineering, architecture, traffic and transport engineering, urban planning and avalanche science came together at the Fifth International Conference on Snow Engineering, organized by the Federal Swiss Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research in Davos 2004.

Early Earth Systems provides a complete history of the Earth from its beginnings to the end of the Archaean.

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

Expansion and privatization have created new concerns over the quality of education throughout the Asia/Pacific region.

Hydrologic science, an important, interdisciplinary science dealing with the occurrence, distribution, and properties of water on Earth, is key to understanding and resolving many contemporary, large-scale environmental issues.

This book explains modern concepts of geomorphology in the humid and arid tropics, for advanced students and researchers/environmental managers.

This book explains vessels' ability to overcome ice on the Northern Sea Route, as well as the criteria of safe speed and maneuvering of vessels on ice.

Like ocean beaches, sheltered coastal areas experience land loss from erosion and sea level rise.

In the era of big data, this book explores the new challenges of urban-rural planning and management from a practical perspective based on a multidisciplinary project.

Our changing climate and more extreme weather events have dramatically increased the number and severity of floods across the world.

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and their associated technologies have advanced by leaps and bounds in the nine years since the first edition of this book was published.

Assessment of freshwater sediments can determine whether chemical concentrations are sufficient to cause adverse effects on aquatic organisms or organisms higher in the food chain, including humans.

The proposed book deals with the role of changing groundwater base level on the adjacent hydrological systems.

Reconstructing Olduvai: The Behavior of Early Humans at David's Site provides the necessary information for future generations of archaeologists to peer into the lifestyle of early humans.

Applications of remote sensing technology for monitoring and predicting water-related hazards Water-related hazards such as floods and droughts have serious impacts on society.

Carbon dioxide, bicarbonate ion, and carbonate ion comprise the most important acid-base system in natural waters, and the equilibria between them regulate the pH of seawater, as well as most rainwater, stream water, river water, and groundwater.

The book provides an elaborate treatment of groundwater prospecting and management covering remote sensing, geological-geophysical cum hydrogeological studies, exploration (geological and geophysical), development (well logging techniques, pump test, its analysis and applications in well design), contamination (pollution of groundwater) and regulatory legislations regarding groundwater utilization under one cover.

Modelling of flow in naturally fractured reservoirs is quickly becoming mandatory in all phases of oil and gas exploration and production.

Nowadays the environmental sustainability of the cropping systems is increasingly requested by the consumers.

The subject of this monograph lies in the joint areas of applied mathematics and hydrogeology.

A THOROUGH INTRODUCTION TO ENTROPY THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN HYDROLOGIC SCIENCE AND ENGINEERINGThis comprehensive volume addresses basic concepts of entropy theory from a hydrologic engineering perspective.

Karst Systems deal with the question of how the subsurface drainage system, typical of Karst areas develops from its initial state to maturity.

The book presents governance with a particular focus on the social and spatial aspects of climate responsiveness and reads the practice of governance across different scales.

Darriwilian to Sandbian (Ordovician) Graptolites from Northwest China analyzes the significance of these exquisite, mostly pyritic, graptolites of the middle to late Ordovician period from North China and Tarim, China-locations that have developed the world's most complete successions of strata and fossil records.

Geospatial technology is a combination of state-of-the-art remote sensing and technology for geographic information systems (GIS) and global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) for the mapping and monitoring of landscapes and environment.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Die Peilung atmosphärischer Störungen durch Synchronaufnahme von Richtung und Wellenform" verfügbar.

In the continued quest for increased economic benefits from our water resources, numerous structures and operating policies for controlling the river flow have been built and implemented.

The Qattara Depression is part of the Northwestern Desert in Egypt and is home to the second lowest point in Africa at -133 meters below sea level.

"e;Today, over two billion people in developing countries live without any electricity.

Echinoderm preservation provides a window into the fossil record in which ecological-time processes can be addressed.

Increasing interest in marine biology and its relevance to environmental issues creates a demand for authoritative reviews of recent research.

This book provides an integrated description of the indicators of rangeland sustainability that capture ecological, economic, and social dimensions.

Cet abécédaire présente la plupart des sujets auxquels l’auteur a été confronté au cours de sa vie professionnelle et militante et plus simplement dans ses relations avec ses proches, ses amis et ses partenaires.

The Geological Evolution of Australia and New Zealand focuses on the stratigraphy of Australia and New Zealand.

Introduction to GNSS Geodesy is a concise reference for beginners and experts in GNSS-based satellite geodesy.

A sociological study of changing farming methods, Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation investigates those techniques that have gradually continued to replace the plow culture.

Geoid and its Geophysical Interpretations explains how an accurate geoid can be constructed and used for a variety of applied and theoretical geophysical purposes.

This book develops the theory of electromagnetic (EM) precursors to seaquakes (i.

Coal Bed Methane: Theories and Applications, Second Edition, captures the full lifecycle of a coal bed methane well and offers petroleum geologists and engineers a single source for a broad range of coal bed methane (CBM) applications.

A synthesis of the relevant agreements, customary norms and ongoing discussions on the international law on climate change.

This book is an anthology of key essays that foregrounds coasts, islands, and shorelines as central to the scholarship on the oceanic environment and climate across South Asia.

The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain Project (AHOB) funded by the Leverhulme Trust began in 2001 and brought together researchers from a range of disciplines with the aim of investigating the record of human presence in Britain from the earliest occupation until the end of the last Ice Age, about 12,000 years ago.