Geophysics category: 630 books
Extreme Events in Geospace
Origins, Predictability, and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Extreme Events in Geospace: Origins, Predictability, and Consequences helps deepen the understanding, description, and forecasting of the complex and inter-related phenomena of extreme space weather events. Composed of chapters written by representatives from many different institutions and fields...
Fractals
Concepts and Applications in Geosciences
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
This book provides theoretical concepts and applications of fractals and multifractals to a broad range of audiences from various scientific communities, such as petroleum, chemical, civil and environmental engineering, atmospheric research, and hydrology. In the first chapter, we introduce fractals...
New Horizons in Occultation Research
Studies in Atmosphere and Climate
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
This book presents edited and peer-reviewed papers from the 3rd International Workshop on Occultations for Probing Atmosphere and Climate (OPAC-3), held in Austria. It provides a key reference on the current status in the field and looks toward new horizons.
Earthquakes
The Sound of Multi-modal Waves
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This book is an introduction to wave dynamics as they apply to earthquakes, among the scariest, most unpredictable, and deadliest natural phenomena on Earth. Since studying seismic activity is essentially a study of wave dynamics, this text starts with a discussion of types and representations, including...
The Cluster Active Archive
Studying the Earth's Space Plasma Environment
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Since the year 2000 the ESA Cluster mission has been investigating the small-scale structures and processes of the Earth's plasma environment, such as those involved in the interaction between the solar wind and the magnetospheric plasma, in global magnetotail dynamics, in cross-tail currents, and...
Introduction to Satellite Remote Sensing
Atmosphere, Ocean, Land and Cryosphere Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Introduction to Satellite Remote Sensing: Atmosphere, Ocean and Land Applications is the first reference book to cover ocean applications, atmospheric applications, and land applications of remote sensing.
Applications of remote sensing data are finding increasing application in fields as diverse...
Advanced Remote Sensing
Terrestrial Information Extraction and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Advanced Remote Sensing is an application-based reference that provides a single source of mathematical concepts necessary for remote sensing data gathering and assimilation. It presents state-of-the-art techniques for estimating land surface variables from a variety of data types, including optical...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Under the Earth's surface is a rich array of geological resources, many with potential use to humankind. However, extracting and harnessing them comes with enormous uncertainties, high costs, and considerable risks. The valuation of subsurface resources involves assessing discordant factors to produce...
Range and Richness of Vascular Land Plants
The Role of Variable Light
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Special Publications Series.
This is a research monograph and not a textbook. Here I demonstrate analytically how the observed, opposing, latitudinal gradients in the average range and richness of local vascular land plant species are...
Geospatial Research
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Having the ability to measure and explore the geographic space that surrounds us provides endless opportunities for us to utilize and interact with the world. As a broad field of study, geospatial research has applications in a variety of fields including military science, environmental science, civil...
The Opening of a New Landscape
Columbia Glacier at Mid-Retreat
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Special Publications Series.
This book, beautifully illustrated with dozens of extraordinary photographs, not only tells the history of the expeditions to explore the Columbia Glacier, but also shows how warming over the last century...
by Michael S. Zhdanov
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
This book presents state-of-the-art geophysical inverse theory developed in modern mathematical terminology. The book brings together fundamental results developed by the Russian mathematical school in regularization theory and combines them with the related research in geophysical inversion carried...
Climate Change Modeling Methodology
Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
The Earth's average temperature has risen by 1.4°F over the past century, and computer models project that it will rise much more over the next hundred years, with significant impacts on weather, climate, and human society. Many climate scientists attribute these increases to the build up of greenhouse...
by Academician Vladimir Vernadsky, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The classic works by the renowned Russian scientist who published the first edition of The Biosphere in 1926. This unabridged translation is made from the 1944 edition and translated from the Russian alongside his other most important book Essays on Geochemistry. In these two volumes, Vernadsky details...