Geophysics category: 630 books
What Light Through Yonder Window Breaks?
More Experiments in Atmospheric Physics
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
"Informative and engagingly idiosyncratic . . . brings the subject down to earth with offbeat, everyday examples and easy-to-follow experiments. . . . Both professionals and laymen can learn from this book."—The New York Times Book Review
"A brilliant collection of intriguing examples...
Basement Tectonics 7
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Basement Tectonics, held in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, August 1987
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Basement Tectonics, held in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, August 1987
Full-3D Seismic Waveform Inversion
Theory, Software and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
This book introduces a methodology for solving the seismic inverse problem using purely numerical solutions built on 3D wave equations and which is free of the approximations or simplifications that are common in classical seismic inversion methodologies and therefore applicable to arbitrary 3D geological...
Geoid Determination
Theory and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
This book will be based on the material of the lecture noties in several International Schools for the Determination and Use of the Geoid, organized by the International Geoid Serivice of the International Association of Geodesy. It consolidates, unifies, and streamlines this material in a unique...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Use of occultation methodology for observing the Earth's atmosphere and climate has become so broad as to comprise solar, lunar, stellar, navigation and satellite crosslink occultation methods. The atmospheric parameters obtained extend from the fundamental variables temperature, density, pressure,...
Sciences of Geodesy - II
Innovations and Future Developments
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This series of reference books describes the sciences of different fields in and around geodesy. Each chapter, is written by experts in the respective fields and covers an individual field and describes the history, theory, the objective, the technology, and the development, the highlight of the research,...
VIII Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy
Proceedings of the Symposium in Rome, 17-21 June, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
This book contains a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the VIII Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Mathematical Geodesy in Rome, 17-21 June, 2013. The scientific sessions focused on global reference systems, geodetic data analysis, geopotential modelling, gravity field mapping as well...
by Carmen J. Nappo
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2002
Gravity waves exist in all types of geophysical fluids, such as lakes, oceans, and atmospheres. They play an important role in redistributing energy at disturbances, such as mountains or seamounts and they are routinely studied in meteorology and oceanography, particularly simulation models, atmospheric...
The Finite-Difference Modelling of Earthquake Motions
Waves and Ruptures
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Among all the numerical methods in seismology, the finite-difference (FD) technique provides the best balance of accuracy and computational efficiency. This book offers a comprehensive introduction to FD and its applications to earthquake motion. Using a systematic tutorial approach, the book requires...
GNSS Remote Sensing
Theory, Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
The versatile and available GNSS signals can detect the Earth’s surface environments as a new, highly precise, continuous, all-weather and near-real-time remote sensing tool. This book presents the theory and methods of GNSS remote sensing as well as its applications in the atmosphere, oceans, land...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Machine Learning Techniques for Space Weather provides a thorough and accessible presentation of machine learning techniques that can be employed by space weather professionals. Additionally, it presents an overview of real-world applications in space science to the machine learning community, offering...
Global Positioning System
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is dedicated to Dr. Benjamin William Remondi for many reasons. The project of writing a Global Positioning System (GPS) book was con ceived in April 1988 at a GPS meeting in Darmstadt, Germany. Dr. Remondi discussed with me the need for an additional GPS textbook and suggested a possible...
by Roberto Bruno, Vincenzo Carbone
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This book provides an overview of solar wind turbulence from both the theoretical and observational perspective. It argues that the interplanetary medium offers the best opportunity to directly study turbulent fluctuations in collisionless plasmas. In fact, during expansion, the solar wind evolves...
by Bruno Zolesi, Ljiljana R. Cander
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
This book describes how to predict and forecast the state of planet Earth’s ionosphere under quiet and disturbed conditions in terms of dynamical processes in the weakly ionized plasma media of the upper atmosphere and their relation to available modern measurements and modelling techniques. It...