Earth Sciences category: 10037 books
Cost-Benefit Analyses of Climate Change
The Broader Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) was founded in 1992 as a "Blue List" research institute, with the Federal Ministry for Education, Science, Research and Technology and the Ministry for Science, Research and Culture of the federal state of Brandenburg each provid...
by John Edward Huth
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Long before GPS and Google Earth, humans traveled vast distances using environmental clues and simple instruments. What else is lost when technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way? Illustrated with 200 drawings, this narrative—part treatise, part travelogue, and part navigational history—brings our own world into sharper view.
Magnetic North
Sea Voyage to Svalbard
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
“Windburned, eyes closed, this: beneath the keening of bergs, a deeper thresh of glaciers calving, creaking with sun. Sound of earth, her bones, wide russet bowl of hips splaying open. From these sere flanks, her desiccating body, what a sea change is born.” From the endangered Canadian boreal...
by Erle C. Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
The proposal that the impact of humanity on the planet has left a distinct footprint, even on the scale of geological time, has recently gained much ground. Global climate change, shifting global cycles of the weather, widespread pollution, radioactive fallout, plastic accumulation, species invasions,...
Brave New Arctic
The Untold Story of the Melting North
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
An insider account of how researchers unraveled the mystery of the thawing Arctic
In the 1990s, researchers in the Arctic noticed that floating summer sea ice had begun receding. This was accompanied by shifts in ocean circulation and unexpected changes in weather patterns throughout the world....
Ecoregions
The Ecosystem Geography of the Oceans and Continents
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Global warming and human-driven impacts are changing the World’s ecological zones. This book applies the principles described in Bailey’s Ecosystem Geography: From Ecoregions to Sites, 2nd ed. (Springer 2009, 1st ed. 1996) to describe and characterize the major terrestrial and aquatic ecological...
Cosmogenic Nuclides
Principles, Concepts and Applications in the Earth Surface Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive and state-of-the-art introduction to the novel and fast-evolving topic of in-situ produced cosmogenic nuclides. It presents an accessible introduction to the theoretical foundations, with explanations of relevant concepts starting at a basic level...
by Todd E. Dawson, Rolf Siegwolf
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
The 20th century has experienced environmental changes that appear to be unprecedented in their rate and magnitude during the Earth’s history.
For the first time, Stable Isotopes as Indicators of Ecological Change brings together a wide range of perspectives and data that speak directly to...
Diachronic Climatic Impacts on Water Resources
with Emphasis on the Mediterranean Region
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Since the beginning of man's existence on Earth, the adequacy of available water has been as important as any other factor for man's survival and prosperity.
The volume comprises comprehensive reviews on: Paleoenvironments of arid land, climate-water-man interactions, water resources in the Minoan...
The Atlas of Climate Change: Based on SEAP-CMIP5
Super-Ensemble Projection and Attribution (SEAP) of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
"The Atlas of Climate Change—Based on SEAP-CMIP5" is intended to satisfy readers’ curiosity: how will our climate system change over the next 100 years? It is the first showcase for the state-of -the-art earth system models that released their CMIP5 simulations for the IPCC AR5.The atlas...
by Clare Smith
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Environmental Physics is a comprehensive introduction to the physical concepts underlying environmental science. The importance and relevance of physics is emphasised by its application to real environmental problems with a wide range of case studies. Applications included cover energy use and production,...
Horned Armadillos and Rafting Monkeys
The Fascinating Fossil Mammals of South America
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
South America is home to some of the most distinctive mammals on Earth—giant armadillos, tiny anteaters, the world’s largest rodent, and its smallest deer. But the continent once supported a variety of other equally intriguing mammals that have no close living relatives: armored mammals with tail...
Geologic Modeling and Simulation
Sedimentary Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Modeling and simulation were introduced to the earth sciences about four decades ago. Modeling has proven its worth and now it is an accepted procedure for analyzing and solving geological problems. The papers in this collection are focused on modeling sediment deposition and sedimentary sequences...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
The Mediterranean basin represents one of the most important “hot spots” of climate change in the world, with recent trends towards a hotter and drier climate being related to changes in atmospheric circulation patterns. Such changes can have significant impacts in the climate of this region but...