Geophysics

Space weather is one of the most significant natural hazards to human life and health.

Ocean Currents

This book combines, for the first time, the topics of radar polarimetry and interferometry.

This book is a compendium of highly purposeful studies all waiting to be conducted.

When disaster strikes in cities the effects can be catastrophic compared to other environments.

Strong ground motion measuring and recording instruments play a major role in mitigation of seismic risk.

Geodesy as the science which determines the figure of the earth, its orientation in space and its gravity field as well as its temporal changes, produces key elements in describing the kinematics and the dynamics of the deformable body "e;earth"e;.

This book focuses on the characterization of fault damage zones and subsurface structure systems quantitatively for the first time.

Structure and Tectonics of the Indian Continental Crust and Its Adjoining Region: Deep Seismic Studies, Second Edition, collates essential data from seismic studies of Earth's crust across India, offering an essential understanding of the tectonic development of the Indian subcontinent.

Geophysical exploration methods are very expensive and invasive methods for surveys.

Advances in Geophysics

From the Foreword:"e;This series has provided workers in many fields with invaluable reference material and criticism.

Hydrology is a topical and growing subject, as the earth's water resources become scarcer and more vulnerable.

Transonic flow occurs around moving objects as they approach and cross the sound barrier.

Starting at the level of graduate students, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to a rapidly developing field of turbulence.

Advances in Geophysics

Floods are difficult to prevent but can be managed in order to reduce their environmental, social, cultural, and economic impacts.

Nuclear tests have caused public concern ever since the first such test was conducted, more than six decades ago.

An atmospheric phenomenon is considered as 'explained' when we have succeeded in deducing it on the basis of accepted principles of physics.

Despite the esteemed nature of gold in society, evidence of adverse ecotoxicological effects and risk to human health in various mining and extraction techniques has generated increasing interest in the biological and environmental implications of gold.

"e;Physical Geodesy"e; by Heiskanen and Moritz, published in 1967, has for a long time been considered as the standard introduction to its field.

An expanded and updated edition of the original 'Geology of Egypt and Libya'.

A comprehensive handbook on state-of-the-art DAS technology and applications Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) is a technology that records sound and vibration signals along a fiber optic cable.

This is the first textbook to adopt an integrated perspective of climate change in Australia, drawing on research from the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2021, 2022) Sixth Assessment Reports to make it the most up-to-date resource available.

Exciting developments in earthquake science have benefited from new observations, improved computational technologies, and improved modeling capabilities.

Taking a transdisciplinary approach to seismology, this unique book reviews the most recent developments in planetary seismology, helioseismology, and asteroseismology.

A Practical Guide to Understanding, Managing and Reviewing Environmental Risk Assessment Reports provides team leaders and team members with a strategy for developing the elements of risk assessment into a readable and beneficial report.

Learning by experience is both a part of the daily life and the exploration life.

This book describes how changes in the Earth''s orientation are observed and computed in terms of tidal forcing and models of the Earth''s interior.

There have been many well-publicized cases of invasive species of plants and animals, often introduced unintentionally but sometimes on purpose, causing widespread ecological havoc.

In diesem Fachbuch werden spezifische Eigenschaften der Gesteine und des Gebirges betrachtet, die sich aufgrund ihrer Quantifizierbarkeit für eine Klassifikation eignen.

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations provide surprisingly little direction for preparing environmental assessments (EA).

The critically acclaimed serialized review journal for over 50 years, Advances in Geophysics is a highly respected publication in the field of geophysics.

Progress towards an understanding of the dynamics and interactions of galaxies has been spurred on more than ever by a wealth of new observations and numerical experiments.

This book is dedicated to readers who want to learn fluid dynamics from the beginning.

This book offers various soil and water treatment technologies due to increasing global soil and water pollution.

The International Mining Forum is an annual meeting of scientists and professionals specializing in a broad area of mining sciences.

Over the last six decades, the field of geophysics has experienced rapid development.

Remote Sensing of Shelf Sea Hydrodynamics

In dieser Einführung stellt der Autor die Grundlagen der Meteorologie vor, indem er die Atmosphäre als ein kom- plexes dynamisches System versteht, das ein Teilsystem des Systems Planet Erde ist.

Risk Modeling for Hazards and Disasters covers all major aspects of catastrophe risk modeling, from hazards through to financial analysis.

Thermodynamic treatment of mineral equilibria, a topic central to mineralogical thermodynamics, can be traced back to the tum of the century, when J.

China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC 2020) Proceedings presents selected research papers from CSNC 2020 held during 22nd-25th November in Chengdu, China.

This book presents a brief synopsis of the current academic understanding of the plume hypothesis, its surface manifestations and its shortcomings.

This book focuses on seismogenic and tectonic environments, seismogenic structures, seismogenic fault structures, earthquake physics, rupture dynamic process, source mechanism, earthquake seismic anomalies and risk assessment, exploration of prediction methods, earthquake disaster characteristics and disaster-causing mechanisms, ground motion prediction, as well as state-of-the-art techniques.