Earth sciences

This book reports about the results of a Special Symposium "e;The Baltic Sea Basin"e;, held on August 11, 2008, within the frame of the 33rd IGC at Oslo, Norway in order to foster the understanding of the Baltic Basin as a unit in terms of genesis, structure, ongoing processes and utilization.

This book is a product of the initial phase of a broader study evaluating the voluntary and regulatory compliance protocols that are used to account for the contributions of forests in U.

An in-depth look at the fish that inhabit the fresh waters of Britain and Ireland.

Coding and Decoding Seismic Data: The Concept of Multishooting, Volume One, Second Edition, offers a thorough investigation of modern techniques for collecting, simulating, and processing multishooting data.

An illustrated guide for anyone wishing to visit and explore active volcanoes safely and enjoyably.

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the development and evolution of flatfish metamorphosis.

A study of the legacy of nuclear contamination in the Soviet Union.

This book is part of a six-volume series on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience.

This book gives the most detailed and comprehensive physico-geographical overview of the very unique country of Mongolia.

Focusing on applications and real-world problems, this advanced textbook explains the fundamentals of groundwater flow for students and professionals.

Al revisar la historia, la energía eléctrica, a partir de su aplicación comercial, ha sido un factor determinante para la economía y el desarrollo social que, si bien inicialmente fueron hidráulicas de baja potencia con generadores de corriente continua, posteriormente se logró aumentar la potencia y la capacidad de transmisión al utilizar generadores de corriente alterna.

Leverage Big Data analytics methodologies to add value to geophysical and petrophysical exploration data Enhance Oil & Gas Exploration with Data-Driven Geophysical and Petrophysical Models demonstrates a new approach to geophysics and petrophysics data analysis using the latest methods drawn from Big Data.

This book gathers a collection of extended papers based on presentations given during the SimHydro 2017 conference, held in Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France on June 14-16, 2017.

This book uses a multimethod approach to examine local experience of contemporary mining development in the Peruvian Andes, creating an understanding of the transformations that rural societies experience in this context.

Encapsulates soil ecology and functioning in northern forests, focusing on the effects of human activity and climate change.

Atomic Absorption Spectrometry in Geology, Second Edition, aims to introduce geologists to the basic simplicity and applicability of atomic absorption spectrometry as it relates to geologic problems; to provide a summary of applications of atomic absorption to geology that are at scattered throughout the literature; and to encourage the accelerated application of atomic absorption spectrometry to geological problems.

When considering biosphere-atmosphere exchange of trace gases and volatile aerosols, significant advances have been made both from an experimental and modelling point of view and on several scales.

There are approximately 10,000 combined sewer overflow (CSO) locations in the United States.

In a world of increasing atmospheric CO2, there is intensified interest in the ecophysiology of photosynthesis and increasing attention is being given to carbon exchange and storage in natural ecosystems.

Written primarily for serving and trainee deck officers, those studying for certificates of competency in merchant shipping and fishermen, Reeds Maritime Meteorology analyses the elements and forces which contribute to maritime meteorology and the principles which govern them.

Despite advances in the field of geotechnical earthquake engineering, earthquakes continue to cause loss of life and property in one part of the world or another.

This book focuses on reservoir surveillance and management, reservoir evaluation and dynamic description, reservoir production stimulation and EOR, ultra-tight reservoir, unconventional oil and gas resources technology, oil and gas well production testing, and geomechanics.

Man's complex relationship to planet Earth is explored in this second edition of the landmark anthology edited by Frank Rhodes and Bruce Malamud.

This volume outlines the fundamentals and applications of light scattering, absorption and polarization processes involving ice crystals.

Optimal Seismic Deconvolution: An Estimation-Based Approach presents an approach to the problem of seismic deconvolution.

This book presents new research on the geomorphological impacts of extreme precipitation events.

This book deals with the theory and the applications of a new time domain, termed natural time domain, that has been forwarded by the authors almost a decade ago (P.

As a response to the climate crisis and its effect on marine ecosystems and coastal populations, this book proposes concrete science driven solutions at establishing transformation pathways towards Sustainable Blue Growth, that are supported by technically and socially innovative innovations.

This book presents the Rock-Eval method, which was invented in France in the 1970s and is used by the oil industry worldwide to characterize source rocks and reservoir rocks as well as their petroleum potential.

This book presents gravity aspects (gravity disturbance, Marussi tensor, two gravity invariants, their certain ratio, the strike angles, and the virtual deformations) which are computed and evaluated for the Moon, using the recent static global gravity field model (GRGM1200A) to degree and order of 600 in spherical harmonic expansion.

An introduction to the principles and practices of soil and groundwater remediation Soil and Groundwater Remediation offers a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the principles, practices, and concepts of sustainability of soil and groundwater remediation.

Proceedings of a symposium at the 1987 INQUA Congress, Ottawa, Aug.

This book is the result of collaboration within the framework of the Third International Scientific School for Young Scientists held at the Ishlinskii Institute for Problems in Mechanics of Russian Academy of Sciences, 2017, November.

This book assesses the vulnerability impacts of climate change on food security by examining a 50 years scenario (2015- 2065) and following a top-down approach.

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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.

The complexity of current water resource management poses many challenges.

Der Titel bietet in seiner Kombination aus Text, Software und Übungsbeispielen eine ideale Grundlage für das (Selbst)studium.

This book is essential for anyone interested in understanding and implementing sustainable resource development strategies, as it covers the crucial first stage of assessing resource availability and condition, along with the use of modern geospatial technologies such as remote sensing, GIS, and GPS for surveying, mapping, and monitoring various resources for global environmental protection and sustainable development.

The main objective of this book is to bring together multidisciplinary contributions from leading authorities on the properties and roles of water in cell systems which are otherwise dispersed in the literature and difficult to gather.

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An engaging introduction to marine chemistry and the ocean''s geochemical interactions with the solid earth and atmosphere, for students of oceanography.

Man's complex relationship to planet Earth is explored in this second edition of the landmark anthology edited by Frank Rhodes and Bruce Malamud.

This is an extensive revision of a book that I wrote over ten years ago.

Oxidation and removal of atmospheric constituents involve complex sequences of reactions which can lead to the production of photo-oxidants such as ozone.

This book reviews all important aspects of wastewater treatment with the aim of shedding new light on these effects through a combined understanding of traditional and new paradigms.