Geophysics

There is an increasing dissatisfaction about how risk is regulated, leading to vivid debates about the use of 'risk assessment' and 'precaution'.

This book explores the factors which are critical in the selection of an appropriate animal species for toxicology studies and the subsequent extrapolation of the data to humans.

Introducing the physical principles of rock physics, this upper-level textbook includes problem sets, focus boxes and MATLAB exercises.

Hydraulic Fracturing Impacts and Technologies: A Multidisciplinary Perspective serves as an introduction to hydraulic fracturing and provides balanced coverage of its benefits and potential negative effects.

This book contains the written, thoroughly reviewed versions of both invited lectures and regular presentations given at the 36th International School of Hydraulics, held at Jachranka in Poland on May 23-26, 2017.

This volume examines the impact of and responses to historic earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the Azores.

Advances in Geophysics is a highly-respected publication in the field of geophysics.

"e;3-D modeling and inversion is a reality, and not an illusion.

The definitive reference in its field, Ecological Risk Assessment, Second Edition details the latest advances in science and practice.

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) are a rapidly evolving technology with an expanding array of diverse applications.

This richly illustrated book reviews the geology, tectonics, sedimentary basins and strategic resources of North Africa in 21 chapters.

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Handbook of Environmental Contaminants: A Guide for Site Assessment is an indispensable working reference for environmental assessment professionals faced with determining potential environmental contaminants that might be found in the soil, groundwater, or air of a property or facility.

This comprehensive book deals primarily with reflection seismic data in the hydrocarbon industry.

This volume offers an overview of the state-of-the-art theoretical and practical approaches currently used for geophysical data interpretation.

The optional Introduction is an informal description of the content of the standard.

Environmental Health and Hazard Risk Assessment: Principles and Calculations explains how to evaluate and apply environmental health and hazard risk assessment calculations in a variety of real-life settings.

This book presents the formulations and solutions of the wave equation for the Earth's free oscillations concerning the particular nodal, bifurcation, perspectival, and projective reference points within the framework of the three "e;great geometries"e; of Euclid, Lobachevsky, and Riemann.

The previous Saas-Fee Advanced Course dedicated to the interstellar medium took place in 1972.

The Geomorphological Hazards of Europe contains an excellent balance of authoritative statements on the range and causes of natural hazards in Europe.

A compact guide to deriving the key geophysical equations - helping students to tackle homework exercises and prepare for exams.

Environmental policy is often practiced reactively with each crisis addressed as an isolated event.

Climate for the 21st century is expected to be considerably different from the present and recent past.

Most well known structures in planetary atmospheres and the Earth's oceans are jets or fronts interacting with vortices on a wide range of scales.

This research monograph presents all the branches of geophysics based on natural electromagnetic fields and their associated subjects.

This book constitutes a notable contribution to investigate and present the capabilities of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and their applicability and usefulness in environmental-related applications and sciences.

In the last 40 years geophysicists have found that it is possible to construct images and even determine important physical characteristics of rocks that can yield information about oil and gas bearing structures in the earth.

This text focuses on conservation laws in magnetohydrodynamics, gasdynamics and hydrodynamics.

A classic graduate textbook providing students with the necessary grounding to embark on geophysics research.

While innovative technologies in remediation need to be developed, so do innovative ways of site assessment.

Tsunamis and hurricanes continue to have a devastating impact on the population living near the coast.

Originally published in this form in 1971, the content of this book was originally part of a larger composite volume 'Water, Earth and Man' (1969) which provided a synthesis of hydrology, geomorphology and socio-economic geography.

This book represents a significant contribution to the area of earthquake data processing and to the development of region-specific magnitude correlations to create an up-to-date homogeneous earthquake catalogue that is uniform in magnitude scale.

During the last thirty years a great advancement in low energy physics, particularly interactions of atoms with the electromagnetic field, has been achieved and the development of electronics and laser techniques has allowed to implement a fine manipulation of atoms with photons.

The book presents short papers of participants of the 8th International Scientific Conference-School for Young Scientists "e;Physical and Mathematical Modeling of Earth and Environment Processes"e; (Ishlinsky Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences).

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This is an invaluable textbook, prepared by the Open University team and designed so that it can be read on its own or as part of the OU course.

This book describes the derivation of the equations of motion of fluids as well as the dynamics of ocean and atmospheric currents on both large and small scales through the use of variational methods.

This edited volume is based on the best papers accepted for presentation during the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-1), Tunisia 2018.

A guide for students and professionals, this introductory course book covers the basic principles of remote sensing and its applications in mine environment monitoring.

As this excellent book demonstrates, the study of comets has now reached the fas- cinating stage where we understand comets in general simple tenns while, at the same time, we are uncertain about practically all the details of cometary nature, structure, processes, and origin.

Space weather has an enormous influence on modern telecommunication systems even though we may not always appreciate it.

Advances in Geophysics

Seismology is rated the Queen of Earth Sciences due to its ability to provide detailed structural information bearing on the Earth interior and on-going dynamic processes.

State-of-the-art coverage of modern computational methods for the analysis and design of beams Analysis and Design of Elastic Beams presents computer models and applications related to thin-walled beams such as those used in mechanical and aerospace designs, where thin, lightweight structures with high strength are needed.

Treatise on Geophysics: Crust and Lithosphere Dynamics, Volume 6, provides a comprehensive review of the state of knowledge on crust and lithosphere dynamics, which is defined as the study of how the outermost layers of the Earth respond to loads that are emplaced on, within, and below it and its implications for plate mechanics and mantle flow.

There are thousands of environmental analyses prepared each year to meet the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and similar programs.

This textbook on geophysics is a translated and revised editon from its third German edition Einfuhrung in die Geophysik - Globale physikalische Felder und Prozesse in der Erde.