Geophysics category: 630 books
Hurricanes
Climate and Socioeconomic Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Hurricanes of the North Atlantic Ocean have left their imprint on the landscape and human cultures for thousands of years. In modern times, fewer lifes have been lost due, in part, to the development of modern communication systems, and to improved understanding of the mechanisms of storm formation...
by Robert Jankowski, Sayed Mahmoud
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2015
This books analyzes different approaches to modeling earthquake-induced structural pounding and shows the results of the studies on collisions between buildings and between bridge segments during ground motions. Aspects related to the mitigation of pounding effects as well as the design of structures...
Gravity, Geoid and Earth Observation
IAG Commission 2: Gravity Field, Chania, Crete, Greece, 23-27 June 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
These Proceedings include the written version of papers presented at the IAG International Symposium on "Gravity, Geoid and Earth Observation 2008". The Symposium was held in Chania, Crete, Greece, 23-27 June 2008 and organized by the Laboratory of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, Technical...
by Dapeng Zhao
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
This book on multiscale seismic tomography, written by one of the leaders in the field, is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and professionals in Earth and planetary sciences who need to broaden their horizons about seismotectonics, volcanism, and interior structure and...
by Sergey Nazarenko
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2011
Wave Turbulence refers to the statistical theory of weakly nonlinear dispersive waves. There is a wide and growing spectrum of physical applications, ranging from sea waves, to plasma waves, to superfluid turbulence, to nonlinear optics and Bose-Einstein condensates. Beyond the fundamentals the book...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2014
The book presents a collection of selected papers from the I Workshop of the Venezuelan Society of Fluid Mechanics held on Margarita Island, Venezuela from November 4 to 9, 2012. Written by experts in their respective fields, the contributions are organized into five parts: - Part I Invited Lectures,...
by Jian Guo Zhou
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is a modern numerical technique, very efficient, flexible to simulate different flows within complex/varying geome tries. It is evolved from the lattice gas automata (LGA) in order to overcome the difficulties with the LGA. The core equation in the LBM turns out...
IGFS 2014
Proceedings of the 3rd International Gravity Field Service (IGFS), Shanghai, China, June 30 - July 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This volume contains the proceedings of 24 peer-reviewed papers presented at the 3rd International Gravity Field Service (IGFS) General Assembly, which was organized by the International Gravity Field Service (IGFS), Commission 2 of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), and Shanghai Astronomical...
Critical Risk Research
Practices, Politics and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Risk Research: Practices, Politics and Ethics offers a collection of essays, written by a wide variety of international researchers in risk research, about what it means to do risk research, and about how – and with what effects – risk research is practiced, articulated and exploited.
This...
A Continental Plate Boundary
Tectonics at South Island, New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 175.
A Continental Plate Boundary offers in one place the most comprehensive, up-to-date knowledge for researchers and students to learn about the tectonics and plate dynamics of the Pacific-Australian...
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...
International Symposium on Geodesy for Earthquake and Natural Hazards (GENAH)
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Geodesy for Earthquake and Natural Hazards (GENAH), Matsushima, Japan, 22-26 July, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2016
These proceedings contain a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Symposium on Geodesy for Earthquake and Natural Hazards (GENAH), Matsushima, Japan, 22-26 July, 2014. The scientific sessions focused on monitoring temporal and spatial changes in Earth's lithosphere and...
by Jack Dvorkin, Mario A. Gutierrez, Dario Grana
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
This book provides an accessible guide to using the rock physics-based forward modeling approach for mapping the subsurface, systematically linking rock properties to seismic amplitude. Providing practical workflows, the book shows how to methodically vary lithology, porosity, rock type, and pore...
Atmospheric Aerosols
Characteristics and Radiative Effects
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
This book includes basic knowledge and understanding on the characteristics of aerosols over the continent and oceanic regions, their composition, residence times, sinks and size distributions, and their effects in the radiative transfer and climate of Earth.