Earth Sciences category: 10037 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
This book, written by an international team of prominent authors, gathers the latest developments in mobile technologies for the acquisition, management, analysis and sharing of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in the context of Earth observation. It is divided into three parts, the first...
by Ram Bansal
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Even in the present age of science and technology, the world humanity by and large still follows conformism. Once something is said by somebody for any reason, it is taken for granted by all others without verifying it from different perspectives. For this reason, many scientific theories remaining...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
This official NASA history document - converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction - provides a thorough overview of NASA's role in researching the problem of ozone depletion, including the discovery of the ozone hole.
The introduction states: " While the National Aeronautics...
Landforms of the World with Google Earth
Understanding our Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
This book of phenomenal illustrations provides a wealth of visual information on the wide variety of landform processes over all latitudes, climates and geological time-scales. It invites you to observe the surface of planet Earth, to appreciate its astonishing beauty and to explore scientific explanations...
by Benjamin Vance
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Science Fiction novel purporting the Earth's magnetosphere is capable of transporting people and objects incompletely through mineral deposits in the Earth's mantle. Complete carnage at several automobile wreckage sites in the same general area prompts an astute law enforcement officer to investigate...
Earth System Modelling - Volume 2
Algorithms, Code Infrastructure and Optimisation
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2011
Collected articles in this series are dedicated to the development and use of software for earth system modelling and aims at bridging the gap between IT solutions and climate science. The particular topic covered in this volume addresses the historical development, state of the art and future perspectives...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2009
CEOS was established under the auspices of the Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations in 1984 in response to a recommendation from a panel of experts in remote sensing within the Working Group on Growth, Technology and Employment (CEOS, 2009). The panel recognized the collective value of the world’s...
Advances in Geophysics
Earth Heterogeneity and Scattering Effects on Seismic Waves
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
Seismic waves generated by earthquakes have been interpreted to provide us information about the Earth’s structure across a variety of scales. For short periods of less than 1 second, the envelope of seismograms changes significantly with increased travel distance and coda waves are excited by scattering...
Environmental and Resources Geochemistry of Earth System
Mass Transfer Mechanism, Geochemical Cycle and the Influence of Human Activity
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
The Earth system consists of subsystems that include the atmosphere, hydrosphere (water), geosphere (rocks, minerals), biosphere, and humans. In order to understand these subsystems and their interactions, it is essential to clarify the mass transfer mechanism, geochemical cycle, and influence of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Over a half century of exploration of the Earth’s space environment, it has become evident that the interaction between the ionosphere and the magnetosphere plays a dominant role in the evolution and dynamics of magnetospheric plasmas and fields. Interestingly, it was recently discovered that this...
The Black Earth
Ecological Principles for Sustainable Agriculture on Chernozem Soils
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Soil is the Earth’s living skin. It provides anchorage for roots, holds water long enough for plants to make use of it and the nutrients that sustain life – otherwise the Earth would be as barren as Mars. It is home to myriad micro-organisms and armies of microscopic animals as well as the familiar...
The Relevance of Manganese in the Ocean for the Climatic Cycles in the Quaternary
Vorgelegt in der Sitzung vom 18. November 1989
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
It is widely accepted that there is a relationship between ice volume and the solar insolation in summer in the northern hemisphere. The Earth's glacial cycles are driven by cyclic changes in the Earth's orbital elements. This conclusion is based on the strong coherence between the approx. 20000 and...
by James Maxlow
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
ON THE ORIGIN OF CONTINENTS AND OCEANS is a completely new way of looking at and understanding modern scientific evidence about the origin of Earth's continents and oceans. Since the 1960s this evidence has traditionally been gathered in support of Plate Tectonic studies and as such, until now, has rarely...
Earth Rotation and Coordinate Reference Frames
Edinburgh, Scotland, August 10–11, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Over the past ten years, since the MERIT project began in 1980, great changes have taken place and significant advances made in the area of Earth Rotation and Coordinate Reference Frames. Symposium 105, held at the 125th Anniversary Meeting of the International Association of Geodesy, August 1989,...