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Leinen, Margaret |
Paleoclimatology and Paleometeorology: Modern and Past Patterns of Global Atmospheric Transport |
I03393 |
1989 |
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Paepe, R |
Greenhouse Effect, Sea Level and Drought |
I03228 |
1990 |
eBook |
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Collier, C.G |
International Weather Radar Networking |
I03226 |
1992 |
eBook |
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Erdik, Mustafa ??zder |
Strong Ground Motion Seismology |
I03065 |
1987 |
eBook |
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Lliboutry, L.A |
Very Slow Flows of Solids |
I02582 |
1987 |
eBook |
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DeSanto, J.A |
Ocean Acoustics |
I02563 |
1979 |
eBook |
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Ardus, D.A |
Ocean Resources |
I02466 |
1990 |
eBook |
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Schlesinger, M.E |
Physically-Based Modelling and Simulation of Climate and Climatic Change |
I02376 |
1988 |
eBook |
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Berger, A.L |
Climate and Geo-Sciences |
I02066 |
1989 |
eBook |
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Scott, D.B |
Late Quaternary Sea-Level Correlation and Applications |
I01888 |
1989 |
eBook |
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| Title | Paleoclimatology and Paleometeorology: Modern and Past Patterns of Global Atmospheric Transport |
| Author(s) | Leinen, Margaret;Sarnthein, Michael |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1989. |
| Description | XXI, 909 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Paleoclimatology and Paleometeorology: Modem and Past Patterns of Global Atmospheric Transport" (held at Oracle, Arizona, USA from November 17-19, 1987) brought together atmospheric chemists, physicists, and meteorologists who study the origin and transport of modem-day mineral and biological aerosols with geologists and paleobotanists who study the sedimentary record of eolian and hydrologic processes along with modelers who study and conceptualize the processes influencing atmospheric transport at present and in the past. Presentations at the workshop provided a guide to our present knowledge of the entire spectrum of processes and phenomena important to the generation, transport, and deposition of eolian terrigenous material that ultimately becomes part of the geologic record and the modeling techniques that used to represent these processes. The presenta?? tions on the geologic record of eolian deposition documented our present understanding of the na~e and causes of climate change on time scales of the last glacial ages (tens of thousands of years) to time scales over which the arrangement of continents, mountains, and oceans has changed sub?? stantially (tens of millions of years). There has been a growing recognition of the importance of global climatic changes to the future well-being of humanity. In particular, the climatic response to human alterations to the earth's surface and chemical composition has led to concern over the agricultural, ecological, and societal impacts of such potential global changes |
| ISBN,Price | 9789400909953 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. Hydrogeology
5. Sedimentology
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| Title | Greenhouse Effect, Sea Level and Drought |
| Author(s) | Paepe, R;Fairbridge, Rhodes W;Jelgersma, Saskia |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1990. |
| Description | 744 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Shortly after the creation of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University Brussels) in 1970, currently labelled as VUB, a Department of Quaternary Geology was installed within the Faculty of Science in 1974. At the beginning it dealt mainly with the study of periglacial loess deposits of the Pleistocene Glacial Period in Central Belgium and with coastal deposits in relation to sea level rise during the warm Holocene period covering the last 10,000 years, in which the dawn of civilization took place step by step. Today the same research teams widen their scope of interest: they are presently studying the loess plateau in the People's Republic of China and the world-wide problems associated with sea level rise, coastal erosion being one of the most devastating natural hazards. More and more emphasis is put on problems concerning environmental engineering and those dealing with global change. Since 1975 UNESCO sponsored a number of symposia of the International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA), whose secretariat was located on the VUB Campus grounds from 1973 to 1982. In 1981 the Applied Geology Department ofthe Faculty of Applied Sciences was created. The NATO-Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) , organized in Fuerteventura (Canary Islands, Spain) in March 1989 was a climax of this series of Global Change gatherings. As Rector of the VUB, I am satisfied that the VUB, through its Earth Technology Institute, of both USA and Belgium could cooperate with NATO and the National Science Foundations in cosponsoring such an initiative |
| ISBN,Price | 9789400907010 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. Engineering geology
5. Engineering???Geology
6. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
7. FOUNDATIONS
8. Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics
9. HYDRAULICS
10. Hydrogeology
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| Title | Strong Ground Motion Seismology |
| Author(s) | Erdik, Mustafa ??zder;Toks??z, M. Nafi |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1987. |
| Description | XV, 607 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book contains selected papers presented at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Strong Ground Motion Seismology", held in Ankara, Turkey between June 10 and 21, 1985. The strong ground motion resulting from a major earthquake determines the level of the seismic hazard to enable earthquake engineers to assess the structural performance and the consecutive risks to the property and life, as well as providing detailed information to seismologists about its source mechanism. From the earthquake engineering point the main problem is the specification of a design level ground motion for a given source-site-structure-economic life and risk combination through deterministic and probabilistic approaches. In seismology the strong motion data provide the high frequency information to determine the rupture process and the complexity of the source mechanism. The effects of the propagation path on the strong ground motion is a research area receiving sub?? stantial attenuation both from earthquake engineers and seismologists. The Institute provided a venue for the treatment of the subject matter by a series of lectures on earthquake source models and near?? field theories; effects of propagation paths and site conditions, numerical and empirical methods for prediction; data acquisition and analysis; hazard assessment and engineering application |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401730952 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. GEOPHYSICS
4. Geophysics/Geodesy
5. Geotechnical engineering
6. Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences
7. Hydrogeology
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| Title | Very Slow Flows of Solids : Basics of Modeling in Geodynamics and Glaciology |
| Author(s) | Lliboutry, L.A |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1987. |
| Description | XX, 510 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book is written primarily for Earth scientists faced with problems in thermo?? mechanics such as the flow and evolution of ice-sheets, convection currents in the mantle, isostatic rebound, folding of strata or collapse of cavities in salt domes. Failure, faults, seismic waves and all processes involving inertial terms will not be dealt with. In general such scientists (graduate students beginning a Ph. D. for instance) have too small a background'in continuum mechanics and in numerical computation to model conveniently these problems, which are not elementary at all. Most of them are not linear, and therefore seldom dealt with in treatises. If the study of reality were clearly cut into two successive steps: first to make a physical model, setting up a well-posed problem in thermo-mechanics, and second to solve it, the obvious solution would be to find a specialist in computational mechanics who could spend enough time on a problem which, although maybe crucial for on-going fundamental research, has little practical interest in general, and cannot be considered properly as a noteworthy progress in Mechanics. But this is not the way Science develops. There is a continuous dialectic between the building up of a model and its mathematical treatment. The model should be simple enough to be tractable, but not oversimplified. Its sensitivity to the different components it is made of should be investigated, and more thought is needed when the results contradict hard facts |
| ISBN,Price | 9789400935631 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. CLASSICAL MECHANICS
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. GEOPHYSICS
5. Geophysics/Geodesy
6. Hydrogeology
7. MECHANICS
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| Title | Ocean Acoustics |
| Author(s) | DeSanto, J.A |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1979. |
| Description | XII, 288 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This Topics volume is devoted to a study of sound propagation in the ocean. The effect of the interior of the ocean on underwater sound is analogous to the effect of a lens on light. The oceanic lens is related, as in light propagation, to the index of refraction of the medium. The latter is giv~n by the ratio of the sound frequency to the speed of sound in water, typi ca lly about 1500 m s -1. It is the vari?? ation of the sound speed due to changing temperature, density, salinity, and pres?? sure in the complex ocean environment which creates the lens effect. Many oceanic processes such as currents, tides, eddies (circulating, translating regions of wa?? ter), and internal waves (the wave-like structure of the oceanic density variabil?? ity) contri bute in turn to the changes in sound speed'. The net effect of the ocean lens is to trap and guide sound waves in a channel created by the lens. The trapped sound can then propagate thousands of miles in this oceanic waveguide. In addition to the propagation in the interior of the ocean, sound can propagate into and back out of the ocean bottom as well as scatter from the ocean surface. Just as the sound produced by a loudspeaker in a room is affected by the walls of the room, so the ocean boundaries and the material properties below the ocean bottom are essential ingredients in the problem |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642812941 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ACOUSTICS
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. Hydrogeology
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| Title | Ocean Resources : Volume I: Assessment and Utilisation |
| Author(s) | Ardus, D.A;Champ, M.A |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1990. |
| Description | XVI, 330 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Today western nations consume annually only a small percentage of their resources from the sea, despite the proclamation of Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) by many. In contrast, most Pacific Basin Countries obtain more than a quarter of their annual needs from the ocean. Determination of greater rewards from the development of marine resources is markedly inhibited by the limited technical abilities available to locate and assess them. Knowledge of Exclusive Economic Zone resources is schematic and generalised, and a detailed understanding of the geology and processes relating to the economic use of the seafloor is both fragmentary and very basic. Technology for mapping the mineral resources of continental shelves and ocean areas, except in active offshore hydrocarbon provinces, has been largely developed in pursuit of scientific objectives and competence to rapidly appraise economic potential is limited. Similarly, the capability to characterise and evaluate the other resources of the seas is rudimentary. The development of ocean resources will become increasingly urgent as the growth of the world population and the depletion of land reserves combine to enhance demand. Also, increasing environmental constraints will limit the availability of traditional land-based resources; nevertheless, new offshore development must proceed in a manner whereby the marine environment is not plundered but protected and conserved. The challenge to develop ocean resources with responsible environmental stewardship will require greater leadership than the development of the technologies of exploitation |
| ISBN,Price | 9789400921313 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aquatic ecology??
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. Freshwater & Marine Ecology
5. GEOPHYSICS
6. Geophysics and Environmental Physics
7. Hydrogeology
8. OCEANOGRAPHY
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| Title | Physically-Based Modelling and Simulation of Climate and Climatic Change : Part 1 |
| Author(s) | Schlesinger, M.E |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1988. |
| Description | XXIV, 624 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | PREFACE xv LIST OF LECTURERS xix LIST OF PARTICIPANTS xx]. VOLUME I PART I - DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF PHYSICALLY-BASED MODELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE Section 1 - Introduction GATES, W. L. - Climate and the Climate System 3 SIMMONS, A. J. and L. BENGTSSON - Atmospheric General Circulation Models: Their Design and Use for Climate Studies 23 Section 2 - Numerical Methods for Large-Scale Dynamics ARAKAWA, A. - Finite-Difference Methods in Climate Modeling 79 BOURKE, W. - Spectral Methods in Global Climate and Weather Prediction Models 169 Section 3 - Parameterization of Subgrid-Scale Physical Processes FOUQUART, Y. - Radiative Transfer in Climate Models 223 LAVAL, K. - Land Surface Processes 285 SELLERS, P. J. , Y. MINTZ, Y. C. SUD and A. DALCHER - A Brief Description of the Simple Biosphere Model (SiB) 307 SOMMERIA, G. - Parameterization of the Planetary Boundary Layer in Large-Scale Atmospheric Models 331 x TABLE OF CONTENTS TIEDTKE, M. - Parameterization of Cumulus Convection in Large-Scale Models 375 SUNDQVIST, H. - Parameterization of Condensation and Associated Clouds in Models for Weather Prediction and General Circulation Simulation 433 PART II - DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF PHYSICALLY-BASED MODELS OF THE OCEAN AND SEA ICE HAN, Y. -J. - Modelling and Simulation of the General Circulation of the Ocean 465 HIBLER, W. D. - Modelling Sea Ice Thermodynamics and Dynamics in Climate Studies 509 PART III - METHODS OF COUPLING ATMOSPHERE, OCEAN AND ICE MODELS BRYAN, K |
| ISBN,Price | 9789400930414 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. GEOPHYSICS
5. Geophysics/Geodesy
6. Hydrogeology
7. OCEANOGRAPHY
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| Title | Climate and Geo-Sciences : A Challenge for Science and Society in the 21st Century |
| Author(s) | Berger, A.L;Schneider, S;Duplessy, J.Cl |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1989. |
| Description | XXVI, 724 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | It has been widely recognized recently that in order to make scientific progress on large and important problems (eg, carbon dioxide effects on climate, viability of various sites for nuclear waste disposal etc.), it is necessary to integrate knowledge from wide ranging sets of disciplines. This is certainly true in the climate sciences, for progress in understanding the cause of the ice ages or the effects of industrial pollution on the future climate or even the likelihood of severe climatic consequences in the aftermath of nuclear war. All require state-of -the -art input from many geoscience disci?? plines climatology, oceanography, meteorology, chemistry, ecology, glaciology, geology, astronomy, space technology, computer technology, mathematics etc. Major international meetings have called for interaction of such geo-science disciplines to solve real world problems. To move beyond the rhetorical level, the NATO Special Programme on Global Transport Mechanisms in the Geo-Sciences whose activities started in 1983, deci?? ded to organise his closing symposium on such a topic which focus on the relationship between climate and geo-sciences. This symposium was held at the end of May 1988 at the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-Ia-Neuve, Belgium. One hundred-and-thirty participants from the 16 NATO countries and a number of non-NATO countries assembled for the Symposium. Another feature was the attendance by special invitation of 16 pro?? mising young scientists who might well become leading scientists on climate and geo-sciences in their respective countries in the next century |
| ISBN,Price | 9789400924468 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
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6. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
7. Hydrogeology
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| Title | Late Quaternary Sea-Level Correlation and Applications : Walter S. Newman Memorial Volume |
| Author(s) | Scott, D.B;Pirazolli, P.A;Honig, C.A |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1989. |
| Description | 240 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | A NATO Advanced Study Institute, "Late Quaternary Sea-level Correlation and Applications", was held together with the Final Meeting of IGCP Project 200 in Halifax, Canada, 19-30 July 1987. This Volume is a collection of the NATO Keynote Papers presented at this meeting. The authors of these papers are from seven of the NATO countries - two each from France, the U. K. , Canada, and the U. S . A. , and one each from Spain, Germany and the Netherlands. With these authors, we are able to assemble work from virtually all of the world's oceans with several different approaches. The Volume is dedicated to Walter S. Newman, one of the best known and best liked sea-level workers of our time who died shortly before this Conference. This Volume contains one of his last contributions and all contributors to this Volume are honoured to be in the company of Walter's last work. There are several papers from North Atlantic countries dealing with Holocene sea level in a variety of ways. Shennan summarizes data from the U. K. and makes a preliminary effort to place the data in the context of a model. Zazo & Goy present new data from the coast of Spain and place it in a stratigraphical context. Van de P1assche re?? assesses previous data and adds new data to the very sea-level sensitive Dutch coast. Leatherman uses sea-level information in the Chesapeake Region to assess coastal management problems |
| ISBN,Price | 9789400908734 |
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3. Hydrogeology
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