Geophysics

Advances in Heat Transfer

This is the first book describing the glorious geology of Iceland's Golden Circle and four additional excursions:(1) the beautiful valleys and mountains of the fjord of Hvalfjordur, (2) the unique landscape and geothermal fields of the Hengill Volcano, (3) the explosion craters, volcanic fissures, and lava fields of the Reykjanes Peninsula, and (4) the volcanoes (Hekla, Eyjafjallajokull, Katla), waterfalls, sandur plains, and rock columns of South Iceland.

Based on the field investigation and the summary of the published research results of the April 20, 2013, Lushan, Sichuan, China, MS7.

In addition to environmental change, the structure and trends of global politics and the economy are also changing as more countries join the ranks of the world's largest economies with their resource-intensive patterns.

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

Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities: Emerging Approaches and Tools for Climate-Sensitive Urban Development starts with a presentation of three widespread Urban Metaphors, which are gaining increasing attention from urban planners and decision-makers: Smart City, Resilient City and Transition Towns, being all of them focused on the need for enhancing cities' capacities to cope with the multiple and heterogeneous challenges threatening contemporary cities and their future development and, above all, with climate issues.

The book addresses instability and bifurcation phenomena in frictional contact problems.

In this book the author presents the state-of-the-art electromagnetic (EM)theories and methods employed in EM geophysical exploration.

The past 40 years have seen a phenomenal growth in globally oriented public and private initiatives related to chemical and environmental issues.

This book presents the findings of recent theoretical and experimental studies of processes in the atmosphere, oceans and lithosphere, discussing their interactions, environmental issues, geology, problems related to human impacts on the environment, and methods of geophysical research.

This book is the result of collaboration within the frames of the 5th International Conference "e;Trigger Effects in Geosystems"e; held in the Institute of Geosphere Dynamics of Russian Academy of Sciences, June 2019.

A self-contained graduate-level introduction to the physical processes that shape planetary systems, covering all stages of planet formation.

Advances in Heat Transfer

Europe has a long history of managing coastal erosion through a variety of protection strategies, from the defences of the Venice lagoons to coastal land reclamation in the Netherlands.

This book offers an overview of solar physics with a focus on solar activity, particularly the activity cycle.

These proceedings contain a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Symposium on Geodesy for Earthquake and Natural Hazards (GENAH), Matsushima, Japan, 22-26 July, 2014.

This book shows how energy flow plays a major role in: plate tectonics; the formation of continents; ocean basins; and building mountains.

A General Meeting of the lAG was held in Edinburgh, Scotland, to commemorate its 125th Anniversary.

Problems of current interest relating to the earth's physical history will be discussed in this volume.

The first textbook to provide an extensive introduction to seismic tomography for advanced students and research practitioners.

Although the origin of Earth's and other celestial bodies' magnetic fields remains unknown, we do know that the motion of electrically conducting fluids generates and maintains these fields, forming the basis of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and, to a larger extent, dynamo theory.

Advances in Geophysics serial highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters.

This volume in the Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series would present the work that has been done and the understanding and database that have been developed by work on climate change done at all the LTER sites.

Written by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Rapporteur of Weather and Climate Extremes, this book addresses the reality of extreme weather-how it occurs, how we measure it, and what it means for our future.

When the First Edition of this book was written in 1951, the gas turbine was just becoming established as a powerplant for military aircraft.

How can environmental regulators use information on 48-hour toxicity tests to predict the effects of a few minutes of pollution?

The complexity of current water resource management poses many challenges.

DEKORP, the German continental reflection seismic program, was the major focus of deep seismic research in Germany in the 1980s and 1990s.

consequences of broken symmetry -here parity-is studied.

La scienza è un’esaltante avventura che è costume raccontare attraverso le gesta dei grandi.

The 30 contributions of this volume cover the main European regions for oil and gas exploration: the North Sea and adjacent areas, the central and eastern Mediterranean including offshore Albania, central and eastern Europe including Poland, Hungary, the Russian platform and offshore Bulgaria.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Earth's Core: Geophysics of a Planet's Deepest Interior provides a multidisciplinary approach to Earth's core, including seismology, mineral physics, geomagnetism, and geodynamics.

A wide-ranging compilation of techniques, Extrapolation Practice for Ecotoxicological Effect Characterization of Chemicals describes methods of extrapolation in the framework of ecological risk assessment.

Explore a wealth of proven mathematical methods for uncovering transport barriers in numerical, experimental and observational flow data.

With an increased demand for wastewater reuse, groundwater recharge with treated wastewater has been practiced across the globe.

Fundamental Astronomy gives a well-balanced and comprehensive introduction to the various fields of classical and modern astronomy.

The subject matter of this book is divided into two sections detailing Soil (focussing on geochemistry, contamination, and remediation) and Water (focussing on hydrogeochemistry, crisis, desertification, and modelling) including case studies, review studies, and essential soil remediation and water.

Waste Management Policies and Practices in BRICS Nations explores recent developments in waste management.

This textbook presents a comprehensive treatment of the theory and implementation of inverse methods in the analysis and interpretation of Earth's gravity field.

Provides a novel interdisciplinary perspective on the state of the art of ultrametric pseudodifferential equations and their applications.

In recent years the significant progress in satellite-based observations of plasma states and associated electromagnetic phenomena in space has resulted in the accumulation of much evidence of various plasma instabilities.

The book discusses the basic of atmospheric dynamics where the curved surface of the earth and its rotation around its own axis plays very important roles.

Advances in Heat Transfer is designed to fill the information gap between the regularly scheduled journals and university level textbooks, allowing for in-depth review articles on a broader scope than is allowable in either journals or texts.

The second part of the "e;Seismicity of the European Area"e; contains further results of the survey of European seismicity, performed during the period 1959 -1967.