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  • Lagrangian Modeling of the Atmosphere

    Edited by John Lin, Dominik Brunner, Christoph Gerbig, Andreas Stohl, Ashok Luhar, Peter Webley ...
    Series Book 200 - Geophysical Monograph Series
    Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 200.Trajectory-based (“Lagrangian”) atmospheric transport and dispersion modeling has gained in popularity and sophistication over the previous several decades. It is common practice now for researchers around the world to apply Lagrangian models to a wide spectrum of issues.Lagrangian Modeling of the ... Read more

    $115.00 USD

  • Natural Hazard Uncertainty Assessment

    Modeling and Decision Support

    Edited by Karin Riley, Peter Webley, Matthew Thompson ...
    Series Book 223 - Geophysical Monograph Series
    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 hazard and risk assessment. We introduce some basic tenets of uncertainty analysis, discuss ... Read more

    $138.00 USD

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    State of the Science

    Edited by Firat Y. Testik, Mekonnen Gebremichael ...
    Series Book 191 - Geophysical Monograph Series
    Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 191.Rainfall: State of the Science offers the most up-to-date knowledge on the fundamental and practical aspects of rainfall. Each chapter, self-contained and written by prominent scientists in their respective fields, provides three forms of information: fundamental principles, detailed overview of ... Read more

    $134.00 USD

  • The Zealandia Drowning Debate

    Did New Zealand Sink Beneath the Waves?

    by Hamish Campbell ...
    Series Book 8 - BWB Texts
    Did the entire New Zealand land mass sink beneath the waves 23 million years ago?Many biologists reject the idea and insist that our native terrestrial fauna can be explained only by the continuous existence of land. But many geologists are now asserting that there is no longer any convincing geological evidence that the New Zealand section of Zealandia remained above the seas surface. But if ... Read more

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  • Full Meridian of Glory

    Perilous Adventures in the Competition to Measure the Earth

    by Paul Murdin ...
    [the text below needs editing and we must be careful not to say things about Dan Brown's book that could get Springer in legal trouble]Dan Brown’s novel, The Da Vinci Code, was first published in 2003; its sales have reached 40 million worldwide. The book mixes a small spice of fact into a large dollop of fiction to create an entertaining novel of intrigue, adventure, romance, danger and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Volcanoes in Human History

    The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions

    by Jelle Zeilinga de Boer, Donald Theodore Sanders ...
    The classic account of how volcanism has shaped human culture and science, from the Bronze Age eruption that destroyed Minoan Crete to Mount St. HelensWhen the volcano Tambora erupted in Indonesia in 1815, as many as one hundred thousand people perished from the blast and ensuing famine. Gases and dust particles ejected into the atmosphere changed weather patterns around the world, resulting in ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System Model

    A Modeling Tool for the Climate Change Research Community

    Edited by Tianjun Zhou, Yongqiang Yu, Yimin Liu, Bin Wang ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Coupled climate system models are of central importance for climate studies. A new model known as FGOALS ( the Flexible Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System model), has been developed by the Sate Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (LASG/IAP, CAS), a first-tier national ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Physics of Soft Impact and Cratering

    by Hiroaki Katsuragi ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book focuses on the impact dynamics and cratering of soft matter to describe its importance, difficulty, and wide applicability to planetary-related problems. A comprehensive introduction to the dimensional analysis and constitutive laws that are necessary to discuss impact mechanics and cratering is first provided. Then, particular coverage is given to the impact of granular matter, which is ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Cosmochemistry

    by Harry Y. McSween, Jr Jr, Gary R. Huss ...
    How did the Solar System's chemical composition evolve? This textbook provides the answers in the first interdisciplinary introduction to cosmochemistry. It makes this exciting and evolving field accessible to undergraduate and graduate students from a range of backgrounds, including geology, chemistry, astronomy and physics. The authors - two established leaders who have pioneered developments in ... Read more

    $81.19 USD

  • Risk Modeling for Hazards and Disasters

    Edited by Gero Michel ...
    Risk Modeling for Hazards and Disasters　covers all major aspects of catastrophe risk modeling, from hazards through to financial analysis. It explores relevant new science in risk modeling, indirect losses, assessment of impact and consequences to insurance losses, and current changes in risk modeling practice, along with case studies. It also provides further insight into the shortcomings of ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Japanese Commons in the Coastal Seas

    How the Satoumi Concept Harmonizes Human Activity in Coastal Seas with High Productivity and Diversity

    by Tetsuo Yanagi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The author proposed the satoumi concept, analogous to the satoyama concept on land, as “coastal sea with high biodiversity and productivity in harmony with human interaction” in 1998. The concept for environmental conservation in the coastal seas has been widely accepted and was included in the Japanese national policy of “Strategy for Establishment of an Environmental Nation” in 2007. This book ... Read more

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  • Large-Scale Perturbations of Magnetohydrodynamic Regimes

    Linear and Weakly Nonlinear Stability Theory

    by Vladislav Zheligovsky ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    New developments for hydrodynamical dynamo theory have been spurred by recent evidence of self-sustained dynamo activity in laboratory experiments with liquid metals.The emphasis in the present volume is on the introduction of powerful mathematical techniques required to tackle modern multiscale analysis of continous systems and there application to a number of realistic model geometries of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD