Geophysics category: 630 books
by Shahrian Talebi
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume contains 18 papers from 8 countries dealing with different aspects of triggered and induced seismicity. In situ observations of the phenomenon include examples of seismicity due to reservoirs, hard-rock mines, coal mines, mine collapses, brine production caverns, fluid injections, and...
International Symposium on Gravity, Geoid and Height Systems 2016
Proceedings Organized by IAG Commission 2 and the International Gravity Field Service, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 19-23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
These proceedings contain 27 papers, which are the peer-reviewed versions of presentations made at the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) symposium “Gravity, Geoid and Height Systems 2016” (GGHS2016). GGHS2016 was the first Joint international symposium organized by IAG Commission 2 “Gravity...
GIS and Environmental Monitoring
Applications in the Marine, Atmospheric and Geomagnetic Fields
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
This book constitutes a notable contribution to investigate and present the capabilities of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and their applicability and usefulness in environmental-related applications and sciences. The focus is on the design, creation, development and operation of integrated...
by Subash Chandra Mahala
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the nature of manifestation and general aspects of thermal springs of Odisha. A detailed description of geological formations and the relationship between tectonic settings with thermal spring emanation is given for better understanding of the geothermal...
by Richard C. Aster, Brian Borchers, Clifford H. Thurber
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Parameter Estimation and Inverse Problems, Third Edition, is structured around a course at New Mexico Tech and is designed to be accessible to typical graduate students in the physical sciences who do not have an extensive mathematical background. The book is complemented by a companion website that...
Stochastic Flood Forecasting System
The Middle River Vistula Case Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
This book presents the novel formulation and development of a Stochastic Flood Forecasting System, using the Middle River Vistula basin in Poland as a case study. The system has a modular structure, including models describing the rainfall-runoff and snow-melt processes for tributary catchments and...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the last decade of the 20th century, there has been great progress in the physics of earthquake generation; that is, the introduction of laboratory-based fault constitutive laws as a basic equation governing earthquake rupture, quantitative description of tectonic loading driven by plate motion,...
Weather, Macroweather, and the Climate
Our Random Yet Predictable Atmosphere
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Weather, Macroweather, and the Climate is an insider's attempt to explain as simply as possible how to understand the atmospheric variability that occurs over an astonishing range of scales: from millimeters to the size of the planet, from milliseconds to billions of years. The variability is so large...
by Rodrigo Caballero
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
With the increasing attention paid to climate change, there is ever-growing interest in atmospheric physics and the processes by which the atmosphere affects Earth's energy balance. This self-contained text, written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in physics or meteorology, assumes...
Physical and Mathematical Modeling of Earth and Environment Processes (2018)
4th International Scientific School for Young Scientists, Ishlinskii Institute for Problems in Mechanics of Russian Academy of Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2019
This book entitled "Physical and Mathematical Modeling of Earth and Environment Processes" is the result of a collaborative work after the 4th international scientific youth forum held at the IPMech RAS on November 1–3, 2018. The book includes theoretical and experimental studies of processes...
International Symposium on Advancing Geodesy in a Changing World
Proceedings of the IAG Scientific Assembly, Kobe, Japan, July 30 – August 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
These proceedings contain 23 papers, which are the peer-reviewed versions of presentations made at the Joint Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) and the International Association of Seismology and Physics of the Earth’s Interior (IASPEI). The assembly was held from...
by Pavel G. Talalay
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
This book provides a review of thermal ice drilling technologies, including the design, parameters, and performance of various tools and drills for making holes in ice sheets, ice caps, mountain glaciers, ice shelves, and sea ice. In recent years, interest in thermal drilling technology has increased...
by G. Gibowicz
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Recent seismological research has focused on processes other than pure shear failure (double-couple) as an alternative mechanism for some types of seismic events. This has been stimulated by what appears to be anomalous focal mecha nisms observed for several earthquakes of possible volcanic nature...
Relativistic Geodesy
Foundations and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2019
Due to steadily improving experimental accuracy, relativistic concepts – based on Einstein’s theory of Special and General Relativity – are playing an increasingly important role in modern geodesy. This book offers an introduction to the emerging field of relativistic geodesy, and covers topics...