American Geophysical Union imprint: 90 books
Climate Dynamics
Why Does Climate Vary?
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 189.
Climate Dynamics: Why Does Climate Vary? presents the major climate phenomena within the climate system to underscore the potency of dynamics in giving rise to climate change and variability....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 177.
This monograph is the first to survey progress in realistic simulation in a strongly eddying regime made possible by recent increases in computational capability. Its contributors comprise the...
Extreme Events and Natural Hazards
The Complexity Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 196.
Extreme Events and Natural Hazards: The Complexity Perspective examines recent developments in complexity science that provide a new approach to understanding extreme events. This understanding...
Monitoring and Modeling the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
A Record Breaking Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 195.
Monitoring and Modeling the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: A Record-Breaking Enterprise presents an overview of some of the significant work that was conducted in immediate response to the oil...
The Stromboli Volcano
An Integrated Study of the 2002 - 2003 Eruption
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 182.
This book presents a study of the "eruptive crisis" that took place at the Stromboli volcano from December 2002 to July 2003. It features an integrative approach to the monitoring...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 183.
For carbon sequestration the issues of monitoring, risk assessment, and verification of carbon content and storage efficacy are perhaps the most uncertain. Yet these issues are also the most...
Arctic Sea Ice Decline
Observations, Projections, Mechanisms, and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 180.
This volume addresses the rapid decline of Arctic sea ice, placing recent sea ice decline in the context of past observations, climate model simulations and projections, and simple models of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 186.
Amazonia and Global Change synthesizes results of the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA) for scientists and students of Earth system science and global environmental...
Stream Restoration in Dynamic Fluvial Systems
Scientific Approaches, Analyses, and Tools
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 194.
Stream Restoration in Dynamic Fluvial Systems: Scientific Approaches, Analyses, and Tools brings together leading contributors in stream restoration science to provide comprehensive consideration...
Surface Ocean
Lower Atmosphere Processes
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 187.
The focus of Surface Ocean: Lower Atmosphere Processes is biogeochemical interactions between the surface ocean and the lower atmosphere. This volume is an outgrowth of the Surface Ocean-Lower...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 188.
Diversity of Hydrothermal Systems on Slow Spreading Ocean Ridges presents a multidisciplinary overview of the remarkable emerging diversity of hydrothermal systems on slow spreading ocean ridges...
Magma to Microbe
Modeling Hydrothermal Processes at Oceanic Spreading Centers
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 178.
Hydrothermal systems at oceanic spreading centers reflect the complex interactions among transport, cooling and crystallization of magma, fluid circulation in the crust, tectonic processes,...
Auroral Phenomenology and Magnetospheric Processes
Earth and Other Planets
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 197.
Many of the most basic aspects of the aurora remain unexplained. While in the past terrestrial and planetary auroras have been largely treated in separate books, Auroral Phenomenology and Magnetospheric...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 176.
With the search for extra-solar planets in full gear, it has become essential to gain a more detailed understanding of the evolution of the other earth-like planets in our own solar system....