Geophysics

This IMA Volume in Mathematics and its Applications STOCHASTIC MODELS IN GEOSYSTEMS is based on the proceedings of a workshop with the same title and was an integral part of the 1993-94 IMA program on "e;Emerging Applications of Probability.

There has been a dramatic spread of health markets in much of Asia and Africa over the past couple of decades.

This book aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of tensor computation and its applications in seismic data analysis, exclusively catering to seasoned researchers, graduate students, and industrial engineers alike.

Pesticde use in agriculture and non-agriculture settings has increased dramatically over the last several decades.

The field of solar physics and solar--terrestrial relation, now called space weather, is evolving rapidly.

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.

TheseProceedings present selected research papers from CSNC2016, held during18th-20th May in Changsha, China.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of core concepts, research, and practice in risk, crisis and disaster communication.

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.

The process of regional-residual separation in potential field is age-old.

Elastic wave propagation applies to a wide variety of fields, including seismology, non-destructive testing, energy resource exploration, and site characterization.

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.

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

Satellite Gravimetry and the Solid Earth: Mathematical Foundations presents the theories behind satellite gravimetry data and their connections to solid Earth.

Advances in Heat Transfer

This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of cities will become more important, and proposing that a dynamic and creative relationship be built up between the local and the global.

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This graduate textbook in geophysics covers aspects of the Earth''s interior that are often treated separately.

This book is a summary of the history of discovering the moon.

Vitamins and Hormones

SYNER-G, a multidisciplinary effort funded by the European Union, allowed the development of an innovative methodological framework for the assessment of physical as well as socio-economic seismic vulnerability and risk at urban and regional level.

The book presents earthquake source, wave propagation, site amplification, and other seismological studies including earthquake simulation, application of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) in seismology, earthquake early warning system, waveform inversion, moment tensor analysis, receiver function analysis, earthquake prediction, and earthquake early warning system applications.

This book systematically introduces readers to the simulation theory and techniques of multiple media for unconventional tight reservoirs.

This book contains a selection of the best articles presented at the 4th International Conference GIRE3D - Participatory and Integrated Management of Water Resources in Arid Zones, November 23th-25th , Help at Laayoune - Morocco, co-organized by Moroccan Committee of the International Hydraulics Association (CM-AIH) and Hydraulic basin agency of Sakia El Hamra and Oued Eddahab (ABHSHOD).

Seeing Stars is written for astronomers, regardless of the depth of their theoretical knowledge, who are taking their first steps in observational astronomy.

Radar Remote Sensing: Applications and Challenges advances the scientific understanding, development, and application of radar remote sensing using monostatic, bistatic and multi-static radar geometry.

What data is needed to complete a quantitative risk assessment for environmental and public health?

Life-cycle assessment is a methodology used to evaluate the environmental impacts of a product, process, or service during its life cycle, and risk assessment is a tool to evaluate potential hazards to human health and the environment introduced by pollutant emissions.

This book contains a comprehensive study of the internal ocean waves, which play a very important role in ocean physics providing mechanisms for ocean water mixing and circulation, as well as the transportation of gases, nutrients, and a very large number of marine organisms in the ocean body.

This new edition is revised throughout and includes new and expanded information on natural resource damage assessment, the latest emerging contaminants and issues, and adds new international coverage, including case studies and rules and regulations.

The vital interconnections that rivers share with the land, the sky, and usRivers are essential to civilization and even life itself, yet how many of us truly understand how they work?

During the last thirty years, the increasing need for extracting coal from new mining fields, especially from unmined protective pillars and seams that are threatened with rock bursts and rock-gas eruptions, has accelerated the development of research in the fundamental mining discipline known as rock mass mechanics or geomechanics.

The advances in and applications of x-ray and neutron crystallography form the essence of this new edition of this classic textbook, while maintaining the overall plan of the book that has been well received in the academic community since the first edition in 1977.

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Connections developed in recent years between particlephysics and cosmologyare the focus of attention in this newtextbook.

This book provides an integrated description of the indicators of rangeland sustainability that capture ecological, economic, and social dimensions.

This book mainly introduces overview of "e;Destruction of the North China Craton"e;, a major research plan of NSFC.

This book presents short papers of participants of the 7th 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).

What data is needed to complete a quantitative risk assessment for environmental and public health?

One of the problems of using plants in environmental studies is finding current information.

Viewed from the perspective of environmental management, this study describes the implications and applications of the precautionary principle - a theory of avoiding risk even when its likelihood seems remote.

This volume is a research expository article on the applied mathematics of turbulent dynamical systems through the paradigm of modern applied mathematics.

Decision analysis has become widely recognized as an important process for translating science into management actions.

Uncertainty in Policy Making explores how uncertainty is interpreted and used by policy makers, experts and politicians.

Earth Observation: Sustainable Development Perspectives offers expert insight to the latest progress made in terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric processes, and their inter-linkage in the face of changing climate using earth observation.