Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning

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

The petroleum industry must minimize the environmental impact of its various operations.

Environmental Radioactivity from Natural, Industrial, and Military Sources is the comprehensive source of information on radiation in the environment and human exposure to radioactivity.

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.

Detecting Ecological Impacts: Concepts and Applications in Coastal Habitats focuses on crucial aspects of detecting local and regional impacts that result from human activities.

Even before the myth of Prometheus, fire played a crucial ecological role around the world.

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.

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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).

Handbook of Solid Waste Management and Waste Minimization Technologies is an essential tool for plant managers, process engineers, environmental consultants, and site remediation specialists that focuses on practices for handling a broad range of industrial solid waste problems.

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

The Handbook of Air Pollution Prevention and Control provides a concise overview of the latest technologies for managing industrial air pollution in petrochemical, oil and gas, and allied 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.

Here's the ideal tool if you're looking for a flexible, straightforward analysis system for your everyday design and operations decisions.

Die Wälder des Amazonas-Beckens weisen die größte Biodiversität aller tropischen Wälder auf.

A New Ecology presents an ecosystem theory based on the following ecosystem properties: physical openness, ontic openness, directionality, connectivity, a complex dynamic for growth and development, and a complex dynamic response to disturbances.

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.

The leading professional guide to RF and microwave safety issues.

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

All industries produce waste products that unless treated or mitigated in some way will be harmful to the human or natural environment.

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

This highly illustrated student guide introduces the skills of interpreting a geological map and relating it to the morphology of the most important types of geological structure.

Environmental forensics is the application of scientific techniques for the purpose of identifying the source and age of a contaminant.

This volume examines the deep sea ecosystem from a variety of perspectives.

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.

Clinicians and mental health practitioners are regularly called upon to treat patients of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

The treetops of the world's forests are where discovery and opportunity abound, however they have been relatively inaccessible until recently.

Environmental Monitoring and Characterization is an integrated, hands-on resource for monitoring all aspects of the environment.

Many engineers, from the chemical and process industries, waste treatment system management and design to the clean-up of contaminated sites, are engaged in careers that address hazardous wastes.

An amazing journey into the hidden realm of nature's soundsThe natural world teems with remarkable conversations, many beyond human hearing range.

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.

Monitoring pollutants in air, soil and water is a routine requirement in the workplace, and in the wider environment.

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.

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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.