Geophysics

Major structural features are used in this study to reconstruct the links which existed between North America, Europe and Africa before the opening of the North Atlantic Ocean.

In a foreword, an author usually elucidates the aim of his book and describes an idealized reader to whom it is addressed.

One of the most fundamental discoveries of the solar system was the detection of four moons in orbit around Jupiter by Galileo Galilei in 1610.

Discusses the global evolution of the earth, such as core-mantle separation, mantle-crust evolution, origin of ocean-atmosphere system, on the basis of isotope earth science andpaleomagnetism, where recent devlopment in planetology andastrophysical theories are extensively taken into account.

The present book is devoted to the study of the deep Earth's interior structure, one of the most important problems of Earth sciences today.

Spacecraft study of the Solar system is one of humanity's most outstanding achievements.

It is now well known that the mid-ocean flow is almost everywhere domi- nated by so-called synoptic or meso-scale eddies, rotating about nearly vertical axes and extending throughout the water column.

In the four years which elapsed between our first workshop on .

Geodynamics is commonly thought to be one of the subjects which provide the basis for understanding the origin of the visible surface features of the Earth: the latter are usually assumed as having been built up by geodynamic forces originating inside the Earth ("e;endogenetic"e; processes) and then as having been degrad- ed by geomorphological agents originating in the atmosphere and ocean ("e;exogenetic"e; agents).

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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.

It has been my intention in this book to give a coordinated treatment of the whole of theoretical geophysics.

From October 1964 to May 1969 the 40 MHz, 41 MHz, and 360 MHz signals of the satellite Explo- 0 0 rer 22, were recorded at Lindau (51,650 N; 10,125 E).

Little more than ten years have passed since spaceprobe-borne instruments con- clusively demonstrated the existence of the solar wind.

Electrical conductivity is a parameter which characterizes composition and physical state of the Earth's interior.

A knowledge of linear systems provides a firm foundation for the study of optimal control theory and many areas of system theory and signal processing.

Der bekannte Astronom Karl Schwarzschild (1873-1916) gilt als der Begründer der Astrophysik und als hervorragender Forscher mit einer erstaunlichen Bandbreite seiner Interessen.

Labor Erde ist eine brillante Einführung in das Studium des Planeten Erde, von den kosmischen Ursprüngen ihrer Elemente bis hin zu der Beeinflussung der Atmosphäre durch die Menschheit und den klimatischen Änderungen, die uns bevorstehen.

This monograph is devoted to the systematic presentation of the theory of sound- wave propagation in layered structures.

Since the Czech edition was published four years ago, the authors have revised the original text tobring it up to date.

From the preface by Joel E.

The articles in this volume were selected from a series of reports delivered in the So- viet Union at Yaroslavl during the International Seminar "e;Super-deep drilling and deep geophysical research"e;, which was organized and held in August 1988 by the Ministry of Geology of the USSR, jointly with the Inter-Union Commission on the Lithosphere.

In the past two decades a succession of direct observations by satellites, and of extensive computer simulations, has led to the realization that the polar ionosphere plays a principal role in large-scale magnetospheric processes - a manifestation of the physics linkage involved in solar-terrestrial interactions.

This monograph was begun with two objectives in mind.

Nuclear astrophysics as it stands today is a fascinating science.

Ten years ago the author, together with eight co-authors, edited a textbook Remote Sensing for Environmental Sciences within the series on Ecological Studies of Springer-Verlag.

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

On attending a conference on the Jovian satellites at UCLA, I heard Lou Lanze- rotti vigorously present the exciting data on the sputtering of water ice by Me V protons taken with W.

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

45 downwards because (j on the average increases with height; but this conclusion does not follow from (18.

It is a pleasure to present this work, which has been well received in German-speaking countries through four editions, to the English-speaking reader.

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.

Over the years, many leading European graduate schools in the field of astrophysical and space plasmas have operated within the framework of the research network, "e;Theory, Observations, and Simulations in Turbulence in Space Plasmas.

The Sun and stars rotate in di?

An outgrowth of a workshop held by the Community of European Solar Radio Astronomers (CESRA), this volume collects reviews on current research and perspectives on the variable solar corona: high-energy particles, large-scale disturbances such as mass ejections and waves, and radio diagnostics of the coronal plasma.

In this volume the full range of astrophysical maserresearch is covered, with contributions from many of theforemost researchers in the field.

This introduction to Bayesian inference places special emphasis on applications.

This book collects together a selection of the best paperspresented at the Third International Bioastronomy Symposiumheld in 1990.

Composed of a set of lectures and tutorial reviews, this book stems from a summer school devoted to the gravitational aspects of the sun and their geophysical consequences.

Astromineralogy deals with the science of gathering mineralogical information from the astronomical spectroscopy of asteroids, comets and dust in the circumstellar environments in general.

Geomorphology deals with some of the most striking patterns of nature.

Both the high level of activity in worldwide space exploration programmes and the discovery of extra-solar planets have spurred renewed interest in the physics and evolution dynamics of solar systems.