Geophysics

In 1951 UNESCO launched an Arid Zone Programme with the object of promoting research into arid regions from every relevant scientific point of view.

This book details the effort to build a large ship capable of traveling at 100 knots, from historical and technical perspectives.

Discussing all aspects of offshore surveying in a single volume, this book provides all algorithms necessary to develop complete software suites, and gives a large number of quality control criteria.

Geomagnetism in Marine Geology

The aurora is the most visible manifestation of the connection of the Earth to the space environment and has inspired awe, curiosity, and scientific inquiry for centuries.

This book analyzes major ethical issues surrounding the use of climate engineering, particularly solar radiation management (SRM) techniques, which have the potential to reduce some risks of anthropogenic climate change but also carry their own risks of harm and injustice.

This book is based on the authors' extensive involvement in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) mapping projects, targeting the health of an earth ecosystem with great relevance for climate change studies: the tropical forests.

This book provides a multi-scale and multidisciplinary perspective on the geology of Azerbaijan, a country characterized by a unique tectonic and geological setting including the Greater and Lesser Caucasus, the Talysh Mountains, and the Caspian and Kur Basins.

Earthquakes and Atmospheric Hazards contains a selection of papers that were presented as part of the Sixth International Symposium on Natural and Man-Made Hazards (HAZARDS-96) held in Toronto, Canada during July, 1996.

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.

Clouds play a critical role in the Earth's climate, general atmospheric circulation, and global water balance.

Now reissued by Cambridge University Press, this sixth edition covers fundamental aerodynamics using examples, applications and exercises.

A user-friendly, thorough introduction to quantitative modelling of sedimentary basins, illustrated throughout with real-world examples, applications and test exercises.

This book presents short papers of participants of the 9th International Scientific Conference-School for Young Scientists Physical and Mathematical Modeling of Earth and Environment Processes.

This book includes new results of theoretical and experimental studies of various scales of the processes occurring on the earth including the lithosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere.

This book spells out in detail how the age of the Earth has been determined over the centuries.

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

Das satellitengestützte Positionierungssystem GPS wurde ursprünglich für die militärische Navigation konzipiert und entwickelt.

There comes a time in the affairs of every organization when we have to sit down and take stock of where we are and where we want to go.

The high damping force of oil damper vibration control systems in buildingsoffers relative safety during earthquakes and at a low environmentalcost.

This is the sequel to our book Acoustics of Layered Media I: Plane and Quasi- Plane Waves (Springer Ser.

For anyone interested in the aerodynamics, structural dynamics and flight dynamics of small birds, bats, insects and air vehicles (MAVs).

Advances in Geophysics, Volume 58, the latest in this critically acclaimed serialized review journal that has published for over 50 years, contains the latest information available in the field.

Each year the world faces thousands of earthquakes of magnitude 5.

De nombreuses personnes sont capables de percevoir avec finesse l'atmosphère d'un lieu ou d'une maison.

Modern Global Seismology, Second Edition, is a complete, self-contained primer on seismology, featuring extensive coverage of all related aspects-from observational data through prediction-and emphasizing the fundamental theories and physics governing seismic waves, both natural and anthropogenic.

A pioneering single-semester undergraduate textbook that balances descriptive and quantitative analysis of geological structures.

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

Unique in focus, Surface Chemistry and Geochemistry of Hydraulic Fracturing examines the surface chemistry and phenomena in the hydrofracking process.

Promoting peace and sustainability in human development while accounting for the risks associated with the impact of climate change on society has become more imperative than ever when addressing humanity's challenges of the twenty-first century.

Quantitative Analysis and Modeling of Earth and Environmental Data: Space-Time and Spacetime Data Considerations introduces the notion of chronotopologic data analysis that offers a systematic, quantitative analysis of multi-sourced data and provides information about the spatial distribution and temporal dynamics of natural attributes (physical, biological, health, social).

Lightning represents a natural phenomenon of substantial interest.

In the dozen years since the first edition appeared, there has been a great advance in understanding of the Earth's deep interior.

Das Handbuch der Geodäsie ist ein hochwertiges, wissenschaftlich fundiertes Werk über die Geodäsie unserer Zeit und bietet anhand von in sechs Bänden zusammengestellten Einzelthemen ein repräsentatives Gesamtbild des Fachgebiets.

Meteorites are generally considered to be bizarre and exotic space junk that you only ever come across in museums.

There are two questions often asked of risk communication: what has been learned from past work, and what is needed to push the field forward?

Now in its sixth edition, this successful undergraduate textbook gives a well-balanced and comprehensive introduction to the topics of classical and modern astronomy.

This book aims then to describe in a comprehensible way efforts made over centuries of measuring and understanding the magnetic declination.

How to reveal and fully use the information of "e;band, amplitude, polarization and phase"e; of electromagnetic wave is the key science and technology issues for SAR imaging mechanisms - information processing - parameter inversion - environmental change cognition, especially for new generation SAR with its capabilities of full polarimetric and interferometric information retrieval, 3D / 4D reconstruction, multi-based synergistic observation and ultra-high resolution data acquisition.

The Endocrine System

This book bridges the gap between the many different disciplines used in applications of risk analysis to real world problems.

Das vorliegende Buch vermittelt Studierenden die hydrologischen, hydraulischen und wasserbaulichen Grundlagen für Gerinne und Fließgewässer.

This book explores the dynamics of planetary and stellar fluid layers, including atmospheres, oceans, iron cores, and convective and radiative zones in stars, describing the different theoretical, computational and experimental methods used to study these problems in fluid mechanics, including the advantages and limitations of each method for different problems.

Around the world, on average, four coal miners die for each million tons of coal recovered.

Microscopic re-examination of geomaterials consisting of aggregates can shed light on macroscopic behaviour, including compressibility, anisotropy, yielding, creep, cyclic liquefaction and shear rupture.