American Geophysical Union imprint: 90 books
Hawaiian Volcanoes
From Source to Surface
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Hawaiian Volcanoes, From Source to Surface is the outcome of an AGU Chapman Conference held on the Island of Hawai‘i in August 2012. As such, this monograph contains a diversity of research results that highlight the current understanding of how Hawaiian volcanoes work and point out fundamental...
by Barnali Dixon, Venkatesh Uddameri
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
GIS and Geocomputation for Water Resource Science and Engineering not only provides a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of geographic information systems but also demonstrates how GIS and mathematical models can be integrated to develop spatial decision support systems to support water...
The Galapagos
A Natural Laboratory for the Earth Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
The Galápagos Islands are renown for their unique flora and fauna, inspiring Charles Darwin in the elaboration of his theory of evolution. Yet in his Voyage of the Beagle, published in 1839, Darwin also remarked on the fascinating geology and volcanic origin of these enchanted Islands. Since then,...
35 Seasons of U.S. Antarctic Meteorites (1976-2010)
A Pictorial Guide To The Collection
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
The US Antarctic meteorite collection exists due to a cooperative program involving the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Smithsonian Institution. Since 1976, meteorites have been collected by a NSF-funded field team, shipped for curation,...
The Early Earth
Accretion and Differentiation
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
The Early Earth: Accretion and Differentiation provides a multidisciplinary overview of the state of the art in understanding the formation and primordial evolution of the Earth. The fundamental structure of the Earth as we know it today was inherited from the initial conditions 4.56 billion years...
by Andreas Keiling, Dong-Hun Lee, Valery Nakariakov
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Low-frequency waves in space plasmas have been studied for several decades, and our knowledge gain has been incremental with several paradigm-changing leaps forward. In our solar system, such waves occur in the ionospheres and magnetospheres of planets, and around our Moon. They occur in the solar...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Electric currents are fundamental to the structure and dynamics of space plasmas, including our own near-Earth space environment, or “geospace.”This volume takes an integrated approach to the subject of electric currents by incorporating their phenomenology and physics for many regions in one...
Microstructural Geochronology
Planetary Records Down to Atom Scale
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
Microstructural Geochronology
Geochronology techniques enable the study of geological evolution and environmental change over time. This volume integrates two aspects of geochronology: one based on classical methods of orientation and spatial patterns, and the other on ratios of radioactive...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
DawnDusk Asymmetries in Planetary Plasma Environments
Dawn-dusk asymmetries are ubiquitous features of the plasma environment of many of the planets in our solar system. They occur when a particular process or feature is more pronounced at one side of a planet than the other. For example,...
Playing against Nature
Integrating Science and Economics to Mitigate Natural Hazards in an Uncertain World
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Defending society against natural hazards is a high-stakes game of chance against nature, involving tough decisions. How should a developing nation allocate its budget between building schools for towns without ones or making existing schools earthquake-resistant? Does it make more sense to build...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Science is built on trust. The assumption is that scientists will conduct their work with integrity, honesty, and a strict adherence to scientific protocols. Written by geoscientists for geoscientists, Scientific Integrity and Ethics in the Geosciences acquaints readers with the fundamental principles...
Modeling Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows
Insights from Laboratory Experiments and Numerical Simulations
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Modeling Atmospheric and Oceanic Flows: Insights from Laboratory Experiments and Numerical Simulations provides a broad overview of recent progress in using laboratory experiments and numerical simulations to model atmospheric and oceanic fluid motions. This volume not only surveys novel research...
Earthquakes
Models, Statistics, Testable Forecasts
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
This book is the first comprehensive and methodologically rigorous analysis of earthquake occurrence. Models based on the theory of the stochastic multidimensional point processes are employed to approximate the earthquake occurrence pattern and evaluate its parameters. The Author shows that most...
by Peter W. Reiners, Richard W. Carlson, Paul R. Renne
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This book is a welcome introduction and reference for users and innovators in geochronology. It provides modern perspectives on the current state-of-the art in most of the principal areas of geochronology and thermochronology, while recognizing that they are changing at a fast pace. It emphasizes...