Earth sciences

Irregular Shape Anchors in Cohesionless Soils presents a new type of soil anchor that can significantly lower cost and preparation time for application in low cohesion soils.

Many problems in mechanics involve deformable domains with moving boundaries, including fluid-structure interaction, multiphase flows, flows over soft tissues and textiles, or flows involving accretion/erosion to name but a few.

Coastal areas face increasing pressures from land use change, developmental activities, shoreline erosion, biodiversity losses and natural calamities.

Predicted long ago to be present on the surface of planetary bodies by theoreticians and recently shown by interplanetary spacecraft and ground- based instruments to be ubiquitous in the Solar System, ices in a broad sense have become an extremely important subject in planetary research.

An authoritative guide to the essential techniques and most recent advances in urban remote sensing Techniques and Methods in Urban Remote Sensing offers a comprehensive guide to the recent theories, methods, techniques, and applications in urban remote sensing.

This book investigates various aspects of the phenomenon of atmospheric oxygen depletion, and summarizes our current knowledge of atmospheric oxygen.

This book focuses on 21st century geospatial technologies (GT).

Australia and the United States face very similar challenges in dealing with drought.

This book presents a new theory of effective stresses in soils, which takes into account the internal stresses caused by the molecular, electrostatic, and structural mechanical forces.

This book comprehensively discusses the methods and practices for evaluating geochemical processes in aquifer groundwater.

Time Series Analysis in Meteorology and Climatology provides an accessible overview of this notoriously difficult subject.

Carefully designed to balance coverage of theoretical and practical principles, Fundamentals of Water Treatment Unit Processes delineates the principles that support practice, using the unit processes approach as the organizing concept.

An Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) sponsored by NATO and the California Space Institute was held in Corsica (France) October 3 to 7, 1983 to discuss the role of satellite observations in the large-scal*eoceanographic experiments, especially those under discussion (e.

This monograph presents a unified approach to model-based processing for underwater acoustic arrays.

Mit diesem Buch sollen aktuelle Entwicklungen der Bodenökologie einem breiteren Publikum zugänglich gemacht und Anknüpfungen zu deren Anwendungsfeldern hergestellt werden.

Biogeochemistry-winner of a 2014 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from the Text and Academic Authors Association-considers how the basic chemical conditions of the Earth, from atmosphere to soil to seawater, have been and are being affected by the existence of life.

What is air?

This book focuses on neotectonic movements and river channel evolution of the Indian subcontinent, with special reference to the Himalayan Neotectonics.

Landslides are a component of those agents of nature that transport rock and soil from mountains or hillsides to streams, lakes and seas, where new sedimentary rocks begin to form.

This book is a comprehensive collection of state-of-the-art studies of seafloor slope instability and their societal implications.

The use of nanotechnology in agriculture has created many concerns related to toxicity and environmental implications.

There has been renewed interest in soil and soil science in recent years as the recognition that biogeochemical processes that occur at the Earth's surface influence global climate change, land degradation and remediation, the fate and transport of nutrients and contaminants, soil and water conservation, soil and water quality, food sufficiency and safety, and many other issues pertinent to the stewardship and conservation of land and water resources.

Plant Transformation via Agrobacterium Tumefaciens compiles fundamental and specific information and procedures involving in vitro soybean transformation, which forms the basis for the Agrobacterium-mediated genetic manipulation of soybean using plant tissue culture.

With the emergence of new pesticide combinations and application methods, assessing their potential risks to non-target organisms and human well-being becomes paramount.

This book presents a comprehensive selection of applications employed in environmental remote sensing using optical and thermal infrared satellite-sensors aiming to map natural resources, crops, groundwater, surface water, aquatic ecosystem, land degradation, air quality, renewable energy, regional resources, and climate-related geophysical processes.

Despite our reliance on the ocean and its resources, it remains a frontier for scientific exploration and discovery.

This book provides up-to-date, in-depth and accessible information on the concept of scale, and focuses on its applications in geography, Earth science, environmental science, and other fields in which the environment plays a significant role.

Climate is a paradigm of a complex system.

This valuable new book offers practical guidance regarding the design and operation of systems for reducing effluent nitrogen and phosphorus.

This is the first book solely devoted to Cryopedology, the study of soils of cold regions.

This book is a comprehensive guide for veterinary and humanitarian professionals to plan emergency responses for the care and welfare of animals.

Die vielfältigen Belastungen und Veränderungen des Naturhaushalts machen eine Bewertung von Eingriffen in den Naturraum immer notwendiger.

Biodiversity, sometimes simply understood as "e;diversity of species"e;, is a specific quality of life on our planet, the dimensions and importance of which have just lately been fully realized.

Gas Well Testing Handbook deals exclusively with theory and practice of gas well testing, pressure transient analysis techniques, and analytical methods required to interpret well behavior in a given reservoir and evaluate reservoir quality, simulation efforts, and forecast producing capacity.

This book provides a detailed description of fluvial processes and their influence on urban sites.

This book provides information essential for anyone interested in climate and environmental change of the Himalayan region, including land and resource managers, environmental planners, conservationists, environmentalists, geographers, climatologists, ecologists, and students.

Stemming from an 11-year DFID funded programme under its Renewable Natural Resources Research Strategy (RNRRS), Technology Development Assistance for Agriculture: Putting Research into Low Income Countries reviews part of this programme as a case study of a broader issue of technology development for Africa.

This comprehensive handbook provides a unique overview of the theory, methodologies and best practices in climate change communication from around the world.

Flood based irrigation in particular spate irrigation relies on variable flood scenarios occurring every year.

This book presents an overview of recent advances in our understanding of the genesis of diamonds and the associated phases.

This volume investigates the challenges facing the Egyptian Northern coastal lakes, focusing on the impact of climate change, their biodiversity and sustainable management.

This user-friendly reference for students and researchers presents the basic mathematical theory, before introducing modelling of key geodynamic processes.

Friedrich Kuehn The Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Germany, in cooperation with scientists from universities, research institutes, and industry, has characterized waste disposal sites in Germany.

Powerful solar explosions, such as flares and coronal mass ejections, greatly disturb the electromagnetic environment around the Earth and the atmosphere.

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Advances in Agronomy continues to be recognized as a leading reference and a first-rate source for the latest research in agronomy.

The Arctic is now experiencing some of the most rapid and severe climate change on earth.

Although it is generally understood that the Antarctic Ice Sheet plays a critical role in the changing global system, to date there is a general lack of readily available information on the subject.

This book offers a much-needed critical approach to the intelligent use of the wide variety of map projections that are rapidly and inexpensively available today.