American Geophysical Union imprint: 90 books
Deep Marine Systems
Processes, Deposits, Environments, Tectonics and Sedimentation
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Deep-water (below wave base) processes, although generally hidden from view, shape the sedimentary record of more than 65% of the Earth’s surface, including large parts of ancient mountain belts. This book aims to inform advanced-level undergraduate and postgraduate students, and professional Earth...
Climate in Context
Science and Society Partnering for Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Society is increasingly affected by climate impacts, from prolonged water shortages to damaging coastal floods and wildfires. Scientists studying climate variations are eager to have their knowledge used in adaptive decision making. To achieve this, science and society must engage productively around...
Global Vegetation Dynamics
Concepts and Applications in the MC1 Model
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Global Vegetation Dynamics: Concepts and Applications in MC1 model describes the creation in the mid 1990s, architecture, uses, and limitations of the MC1 dynamic global vegetation model (DGVM) that is being used by an increasing number of research groups around the world. The scientific foundation...
Flood Damage Survey and Assessment
New Insights from Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Floods can have a devastating impact on life, property and economic resources. However, the systematic collection of damage data in the aftermath of flood events can contribute to future risk mitigation. Such data can support a variety of actions including the identification of priorities for intervention...
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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...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
The beginning of the new millennium has been particularly devastating in terms of natural disasters associated with tectonic plate boundaries, such as earthquakes in Sumatra, Chile, Japan, Tahiti, and Nepal; the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean tsunamis; and volcanoes in Indonesia, Chile, Iceland...
The Mediterranean Sea
Temporal Variability and Spatial Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Surface, intermediate, and deep-water processes and their interaction in time and space drive the major ocean circulation of the Mediterranean Sea. All major forcing mechanisms, such as surface wind forcing, buoyancy fluxes, lateral mass exchange, and deep convection determining the global oceanic...
Natural Hazard Uncertainty Assessment
Modeling and Decision Support
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Uncertainties are pervasive in natural hazards, and it is crucial to develop robust and meaningful approaches to characterize and communicate uncertainties to inform modeling efforts. In this monograph we provide a broad, cross-disciplinary overview of issues relating to uncertainties faced in natural...
Subduction Dynamics
From Mantle Flow to Mega Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Subduction dynamics has been actively studied through seismology, mineral physics, and laboratory and numerical experiments. Understanding the dynamics of the subducting slab is critical to a better understanding of the primary societally relevant natural hazards emerging from our planetary interior,...
Terrestrial Water Cycle and Climate Change
Natural and Human-Induced Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
The Terrestrial Water Cycle: Natural and Human-Induced Changes is a comprehensive volume that investigates the changes in the terrestrial water cycle and the natural and anthropogenic factors that cause these changes. This volume brings together recent progress and achievements in large-scale hydrological...
Climate Extremes
Patterns and Mechanisms
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Although we are seeing more weather and climate extremes, individual extreme events are very diverse and generalization of trends is difficult. For example, mid-latitude and subtropical climate extremes such as heat waves, hurricanes and droughts have increased, and could have been caused by processes...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Over a half century of exploration of the Earth’s space environment, it has become evident that the interaction between the ionosphere and the magnetosphere plays a dominant role in the evolution and dynamics of magnetospheric plasmas and fields. Interestingly, it was recently discovered that this...
Water-Energy-Food Nexus
Principles and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
Water, energy and food are key resources to sustain life, and are the fundamental to national, regional and global economies. These three resources are interlinked in multiple ways, and the term “nexus” captures the interconnections. The nexus has been discussed, debated, researched, and advocated...
Hydrodynamics of Time-Periodic Groundwater Flow
Diffusion Waves in Porous Media
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Hydrodynamics of Time-Periodic Groundwater Flow introduces the emerging topic of periodic fluctuations in groundwater. While classical hydrology has often focused on steady flow conditions, many systems display periodic behavior due to tidal, seasonal, annual, and human influences. Describing and...