Earth sciences Books

This volume has grown from an Autumn School about "Analysis of Climat~ Variability - Applications of Statistical techniques" on Elba in November 1993. We have included those lectures which referred explicitly to appli­ cations...

The author describes the stochastic (probabilistic) approach to the study of changes in the climate system. Climatic data and theoretical considerations suggest that a large part of climatic variation/variability has a random...

Methane is an important greenhouse gas that can cause global warming. The present concentrations of methane are nearly three times higher than several hundred years ago. Today, more than 60% of the atmospheric methane comes...

Klaus-Peter Schwarz, lAG President The University of Calgary The Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Geodesy (lAG) was held from September 3 to 9, 1997 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in conjunction with the 18th...

Geomorphological research in the humid to seasonal tropics has primarily concentrated on the most characteristic landform assemblage of this zone, namely that of stepped, largely undissected etchplains, often dotted with...

The biosphere is the ultimate sink for air pollutants and is also the source of many precursors for the formation of photo-oxidants. In any analysis of air pollution and for determining source-receptor relationships, reliable...

Propagation des surfaces de discontinuite dans un milieu elastoplastique.- The Concept of Bifurcation in Geomechanics.- Experimental Aspects.- Third Invariant Dependent Single Yield Surface Model and Localization Conditions for High Porosity Sandstone.-...

Since the early decades of the last century, some eminent European scientists have contributed to the creation of a new perspective of our planet Earth. Some outstanding scientific articles were published in the journal...

This fully revised third edition introduces geostatistics by emphasising the multivariate aspects for scientists, engineers and statisticians. Geostatistics offers a variety of models, methods and techniques for the...

The archaeological geology of the Quaternary or the geological epoch during which humankind evolved is a scientific endeavor with much to offer in the fields of archaeology and palaeoanthropology. Earth science techniques...

Seismic Reflection Processing coherently presents the physical concepts, mathematical details and methodology for optimizing results of reservoir modelling, under conditions of isotropy and anisotropy. The most common form of...

Multipole Fields.- Propagation Through an Assembly of Nonspherical Scatterers.- Radiation Force, Radiation Torque and Thermal Emission.- Multipole Expansions and Transition Matrix.- Transition Matrix of Single and Aggregated Spheres.- Scattering from...

Technical Regulations.- HDPE Materials and Geomembrane Manufacture.- Testing of HDPE Geomembrane Properties.- Deformation Behaviour.- Long-term Behaviour.- HDPE Geomembranes with Textured Surface.- Mass Transport.- Requirements for Protective Layers.-...

Tutorial: Introductory Material.- Statistical Physics of Fracture and Earthquake.- Rupture Processes in Fibre Bundle Models.- Extensions of Fibre Bundle Models.- Survey of Scaling Surfaces.- Physics Models of Earthquake.- Some Early Earthquake Source...

This volume contains selected papers by Torben Krarup, one of the most important geodesists of the 20th century. The collection includes the famous booklet "A Contribution to the Mathematical Foundation of Physical Geodesy"...

Since the late 1960s, various groups have investigated the influence of marine surface films on mechanisms dominating energy and mass transfer across the ocean/atmosphere interface. However, a compendium summarizing the...

The book reviews recent developments and research results on excavations and foundations found in and on soft soil deposits. It gives an overview of the material properties of soft soils and offers new foundation improvement...

Planets.- Stars, Galaxies, and the Origin of Chemical Elements.- Planet Formation.- The Earth.- The Search for Extrasolar Planets.- Planets Suitable for Life.- Life.- Life and its Origin on Earth.- Evolution.- The Search for Extraterrestrial Life.-...

Leading specialists in various disciplines were first invited to a multidisciplinary workshop funded by ICSU on the topic to gain a better appreciation and perspective on the subject of comet/asteroid impacts as viewed by...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Meteorologie, Aeronomie, Klimatologie, Note: keine, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Geographisches Institut Mainz), Veranstaltung: Regionalseminar zur Exkursion:...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Raumwissenschaften, Stadt- und Raumplanung, Note: 1,3, Universität Kassel (FB 6, FG Politik und Recht räumlicher Entwicklung im europäischen Kontext), Veranstaltung: Infrastruktur und Standortplanung,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Sonstiges, Note: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Geographisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Dimensionen des Visuellen in der Geographie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract:...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Geologie, Mineralogie, Bodenkunde, Note: 1,3, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Fachbereich Geographie), Veranstaltung: Unterseminar Bodengeographie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract:...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Geologie, Mineralogie, Bodenkunde, Note: 1,3, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Department für Geogrphie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Four soil profiles from coast...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Meteorologie, Aeronomie, Klimatologie, Note: 2, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Veranstaltung: Mittelseminar Naturgefahren, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract:...

Als roter Faden dient dem Autor hier erstmals der Bewertungsgedanke. Die Ausbreitung von Chemikalien wird modelliert, um zu sehen wo Akkumulationen denkbar sind. Bewertet werden Chemikalien in der Umwelt und die Umwelt in ihren...

Dieser Band gibt einen Überblick zu den Vorkommen und Lagerungsverhältnissen eiszeitlich gebildeter, quartärer Gesteine und fasst schwerpunktmäßig Untersuchungsergebnisse zu ihren chemisch-mineralogischen Barriereeigenschaften...

1 Abstract.- 2 Introduction.- 3 Study areas and basic data.- 3.1 Study areas.- 3.2 Basic data.- 3.2.1 Digital Elevation Models.- 3.2.2 Primary Forest Layers.- 3.2.2.1 Forest Inventory.- 3.2.2.2 Forest Site Evaluation.- 4 Statistical methods for...

From the reviews: "Bishop and Schroder (both, Univ. of Nebraska at Omaha) have brought together an impressive group of practitioners in the relatively new application of geographic information science to mountain geomorphology...

This unique book includes 250 maps related to various factors of meteorology and climate and their effects on the African continent. It provides detailed coverage of fundamentally important issues concerning African meterology,...

World Energy Resources is an explanatory energy survey of the countries and major regions of the world, their geographic and economic settings, and signif­ icant inter-relationships. This book attempts to combine several...

These proceedings gather the written contributions presented during the second Conference APMS'2001 (Air Pollution Modeling and Simulation), which was jointly organized by the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees (ENPC) and...

The IAG International Symposium on Gravity, Geoid and Geodynamics 2000 (GGG2000) took place in Banff, Alberta, Canada, from July 31 to August 4, 2000. This symposium continued the tradition of mid-term meetings ("GraGeoMar96:...

This book is aimed at the practising engineer and engineering geologist working in tropical environments, where lands lides are mainly triggered by rain fall. This book is based on a similar work published in 1999 in ...

Based on the IV Hotine-Marussi Symposium held in Trento, the volume covers three important topics: boundary value problems, satellite geodesy and stochastic methods in geodesy. The first part deals with boundary value problems...

Geomechanics is the mechanics of geomaterials, i.e. soils and rocks, and deals with fascinating problems such as settlements, stability of excavations, tunnels and offshore platforms, landslides, earthquakes and liquefaction...

The authors have synthesized 16 years of geological and geophysical studies which document an 85-km-wide impact crater buried 500 m beneath Chesapeake Bay in south eastern Virginia, USA. In doing so, they have integrated...

This book covers various aspects of spatial data modelling specifically regarding three-dimensional (3D) modelling and structuring. The realization of "true" 3D geoinformation spatial systems requires a high input, and the...

The explosion of interactive multimedia cartography products, on online, has generated an immense interest in developing methodologies that best exploit both the technology and the distribution capabilities of multimedia...

Since the first symposium in 1984 the International Symposia on Spatial Data Handling (SDH) has become a major resource for recent advances in GIS research. The International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling is regarded as a...

Bioremediation is an eco-friendly, cost-effective and natural technology targeted to remove heavy metals, radionuclides, xenobiotic compounds, organic waste, pesticides etc. from contaminated sites or industrial discharges...