Earth sciences

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

What is fuzzy logic?

This new edition of a classic text has been significantly expanded to cover the most current issues and international standards are examined in-depth, with detailed coverage of WHO, European, UK and US standards, organisations and practice.

This revised edition puts the most current information about gas-handling systems and facilities at your fingertips.

Streams around the world flow toward the sea in floodplains.

Here is a valuable guide to appraise and develop petroleum resources.

Stochastic Methods for Flow in Porous Media: Coping with Uncertainties explores fluid flow in complex geologic environments.

Sodium Sulfate: Handbook of Deposits, Processing, Properties, and Use will be the authoritative and up-to-date distillation of all that is known about naturally occurring sodium sulfate, detailed information on formation, worldwide deposits, processing technologies, and usage over time.

While ocean waves are the most visible example of oceanic mixing processes, this macroscale mixing process represents but one end of the spectrum of mixing processes operating in the ocean.

Meteorology at the Millennium details recent advances in meteorology and explores its interfaces with science, technology, and society.

In Lost Wonders Tom Lathan tells ten powerful stories of species that have lived, died out and been declared extinct since the turn of the twenty-first century.

This comprehensive text has established itself over the past 20 years as the definitive work in its fields, presenting a thorough coverage of this key area of structural geology in a way which is ideally suited to advanced undergraduate and masters courses.

Paleomagnetism is the study of the fossil magnetism in rocks.

Oceans play a pivotal role in our weather and climate.

Sea Level Rise, History and Consequences includes a special emphasis on the evidence for historical sea level change; case studies are used to demonstrate the resulting consequences.

Shared Earth Modeling introduces the reader to the processes and concepts needed to develop shared earth models.

Atmospheric ice particles play crucial roles in cloud and storm dynamics, atmospheric chemistry, climatological processes, and other atmospheric processes.

Nearly all industrial processes require objects to be moved, manipulated or subjected to some sort of force.

This book describes how modeling fluid flow in chemical reactors may offer solutions that improve design, operation, and performance of reactors.

Clouds play a critical role in the Earth's climate, general atmospheric circulation, and global water balance.

The book discusses the ideas and creates a framework for building toward a theory of paleoclimate.

Drawing from experts and top researchers from around the world, this book presents current developments in a variety of areas that impact offshore and ocean engineering.

The most complete manual of its kind, this handy book gives you all the formulas and calculations you are likely to need in drilling operations.

This breakthrough new book may help save countless lives and avoid enormous losses.

General Circulation Models (GCMs) are rapidly assuming widespread use as powerful tools for predicting global events on time scales of months to decades, such as the onset of EL Nino, monsoons, soil moisture saturation indices, global warming estimates, and even snowfall predictions.

Please use extracts from reviews of first editionKey Features* Updated and thoroughly revised edition* additional material on geophysical/acoustic tomography* Detailed discussion of application of inverse theory to tectonic, gravitational and geomagnetic studies

The interactions of biogeochemical cycles influence and maintain our climate system.

The conservation of marine benthic biodiversity is a recognised goal of a number of national and international programs such as the United Nations Convention on Biodiversity (CBD).

Thermodynamic property data are important in many engineering applications in the chemical processing and petroleum refining industries.

This book focuses on the interactive effects of environmental stresses with plant and ecosystem functions, especially with respect to changes in the abundance of carbon dioxide.

This comprehensive reference is the first to cover industrially important borates, from deposits, through chemistry, mining, processing, and applications.

Atmospheric Science, Second Edition, is the long-awaited update of the classic atmospheric science text, which helped define the field nearly 30 years ago and has served as the cornerstone for most university curricula.

Modeling has become an essential tool for the groundwater hydrologist.

An abridged, student-oriented edition of Hillel's earlier published Environmental Soil Physics, Introduction to Environmental Soil Physics is a more succinct elucidation of the physical principles and processes governing the behavior of soil and the vital role it plays in both natural and managed ecosystems.

In combining and revising the two titles 'Past Glacial Environments' and 'Modern Glacial Environments', Dr Menzies and his contributors provide the most comprehensive and wide-ranging book ever prepared on both topics.

Adsorption of Metals by Geomedia, serves as a needed resource for this topic which has received much attention during the past 15 years.

Groundwater Science is a timely, current, and comprehensive presentation of groundwater hydrology that integrates chemistry, physics, geology, and calculus.

Earth as an Evolving Planetary System is based on Kent Condie's classic text, Plate Tectonics and Crustal Evolution, which has been revamped and renamed in order to reflect a new emphasis on the evolving interactions of the Earth's systems.

Principles of Soil and Plant Water Relations combines biology and physics to show how water moves through the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum.

The book represents all the knowledge we currently have on ocean circulation.

The second edition of Mesoscale Meteorological Modeling is a fully revised resource for researchers and practitioners in the growing field of meteorological modeling at the mesoscale.

This Second Edition of An Introduction to Atmospheric Radiation has been extensively revised to address the fundamental study and quantitative measurement of the interactions of solar and terrestrial radiation with molecules, aerosols, and cloud particles in planetary atmospheres.

Gravity waves exist in all types of geophysical fluids, such as lakes, oceans, and atmospheres.

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

Advances in Agronomy has the highest impact factor among serial publications in agriculture.

Introduction to Micrometeorology is intended as a textbook for courses in micrometeorology for undergraduate students (juniors or seniors) in meteorology or environmental science, as well as for an introductory graduate-level course in boundary-layer meteorology.

The two volume International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology represents the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth's Interior's (IASPEI) ambition to provide a comprehensive overview of our present knowledge of earthquakes and seismology.

Modern scientific investigations of earthquakes began in the 1880s, and the International Association of Seismology was organized in 1901 to promote collaboration of scientists and engineers in studying earthquakes.

Geography is a system of highly developed sciences about the environment.

The book deals with the study of three important volcanisms in the Campania Plain: Vesuvius, Campi Flegrei and Ignimbrites.