Geographical Information Science
ISBN: 9781439810040 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the last decade, GIS (geographical information systems) has established itself as a collaborative information processing system that is increasing in popularity. Yet this interdisciplinary field is not available to the vast community of students and academicians as a subject of study. Over the last decade, GIS (geographical information systems) has established itself as a collaborative information processing system that is increa... |
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985,53 zł |
Tributyltin: Case Study of an Environmental Contaminant
ISBN: 9780521105125 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This authoritative volume reviews the environmental chemistry and toxicological effects of a marine pollutant of exceptional potency, tributyltin (TBT), and outlines the international response to control TBT. TBT compounds have been widely utilized in marine anti-fouling paint formulations to obtain increased fuel efficiencies and long lifetimes for maritime vessels and structures. However, its extreme toxicity has resulted in numerous adverse biological effects, and its persistence ensures that such problems are likely to continue. A wide variety of disciplines are brought together to...
This authoritative volume reviews the environmental chemistry and toxicological effects of a marine pollutant of exceptional potency, tributyltin (TBT...
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351,71 zł |
Metropolitan Governance in the 21st Century: Capacity, Democracy and the Dynamics of Place
ISBN: 9780415498951 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a cross-national analysis of contemporary issues and challenges for the governing of urban regions. The case studies on Germany, Spain, France, Greece, The Netherlands, Finland, the UK, Switzerland, Australia, the US and Canada, place particular emphasis on the tensions building on metropolitan governing capacity and democratic legitimacy. The authors develop and use an analytical framework focused on the dynamics of place and make an original contribution to the debates on the nature of metropolitan governance.
This book offers a cross-national analysis of contemporary issues and challenges for the governing of urban regions. The case studies on Germany, Spai...
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228,18 zł |
By Jupiter: Odysseys to a Giant
ISBN: 9780231051767 / Angielski / Twarda / 155 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traces the history of scientific research on the planet Jupiter from the observations of Galileo to the explorations of the Pioneer and Voyager space probes.
Traces the history of scientific research on the planet Jupiter from the observations of Galileo to the explorations of the Pioneer and Voyager space ...
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518,70 zł |
Current Retroflection from a Slanted Coastline
ISBN: 9783639123463 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent proxies suggest that, at the end of the last glacial, there was a significant increase in the injection of Agulhas rings into the South Atlantic. This event brought about a dramatic increase in the salt influx helping to re-start the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. Until now the mechanism through which such large variation in ring production occurs has not been clear. In this book, two semi-analytical non-linear models of current retroflection from non-zonal coastline on the -plane are developed to explain this phenomenon. The critical value of the coastline slant is...
Recent proxies suggest that, at the end of the last glacial, there was a significant increase in the injection of Agulhas rings into the South Atlanti...
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Scale Interactions in Hurricanes
ISBN: 9783639127966 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines scale interactions and energy transformations that occur during hurricane genesis. The organization of convection during hurricane genesis is first explored to establish which scales are evolving and to determine which wavenumbers constitute the hurricane scale. Next, complete energy budgets are examined in order to sort out energy flow during hurricane genesis. The framework of the study is based on the seminal papers by Barry Saltzman (1957, 1970) on atmospheric energetics in the wavenumber domain. The complete energy budget includes examination of the generation of...
This book examines scale interactions and energy transformations that occur during hurricane genesis. The organization of convection during hurricane ...
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267,62 zł |
Modified Stokes's Formula for Regional Geoid Modeling
ISBN: 9783639128192 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The geoid is an equipotential surface of the Earths
gravity field that nearly coincides with the mean sea level. In regional geoid determination it has become customary to utilize a modified Stokes formula, which combines local terrestrial data with an appropriate global geopotential model. Two distinct modification classes - deterministic and stochastic, exist. Both approaches aim at reducing the truncation bias which occurs due to neglecting the far-zone integration. In addition the stochastic methods also attempt to reduce the data errors in geoid modeling. This book presents... The geoid is an equipotential surface of the Earths
gravity field that nearly coincides with the mean sea level. In regional geoid determina... |
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Provenance and technology of ceramic artefacts
ISBN: 9783639133400 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scientific analysis of ancient ceramic materials is a core topic in archaeological studies. This book provides a concise introduction into the critical aspects of analytical pottery studies and demonstrates their significance with four detailed case studies. Integrated geoscientific analytical methodologies, such as XRF, ICP-MS, XRD, SEM, EPMA and RS, have the potential to resolve difficult archaeometric research questions. An in-depth knowledge of the bulk and mineral chemistry, as well as the microstructural and micromorphological sherd attributes, together with geological and...
Scientific analysis of ancient ceramic materials is a core topic in archaeological studies. This book provides a concise introduction into the critica...
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Wave Packets and Their Bifurcations in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
ISBN: 9780387972572 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The material in this book is based predominantly on my recent work. It is the first monograph on the subject, though some support material may overlap other monographs. The investigation of wave packets and their bi- furcations is very interesting, and useful theoretically and in practice, not only in geophysical fluid dynamics, which is the field to which the theory is being applied here, but also in other fields in mathematics and the natural sciences. I hope that the applied mathematician will find reading this book worthwhile, especially the material on the behavior of highly nonlinear...
The material in this book is based predominantly on my recent work. It is the first monograph on the subject, though some support material may overlap...
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385,52 zł |
The Madden-Julian Oscillation
ISBN: 9783639130546 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A tropical channel model was constructed to study the
long-standing problem of the initiation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO). Two MJO cases were studied through numerous sensitivity tests. These tests demonstrated that the simulated MJO initiation was critically dependent on the time dependent lateral boundary conditions from the reanalysis. The mechanisms of extratropical influences were further explored, which showed the importance of momentum transport at the lower troposphere and wave activities at the upper troposphere. The dynamics of the MJO and its dependence on the mean state... A tropical channel model was constructed to study the
long-standing problem of the initiation of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO). Two MJO ... |
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Remote Sensing of Vegetation Water and Fire Risk
ISBN: 9783836482899 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The research presented in this book is aimed at
reviewing, evaluating and improving remote sensing techniques for vegetation water and fire risk estimation. Coupled reflectance models, fire spread models and meteorological data is first used to estimate expected errors in remote sensing based vegetation moisture retrievals and understand the effect of such uncertainties on fire spread rate predictions. An analysis of the characteristics of soil and canopy reflectance is then used as a basis for designing a vegetation water index, which is more resistant to soil reflectance... The research presented in this book is aimed at
reviewing, evaluating and improving remote sensing techniques for vegetation water and fire ri... |
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308,45 zł |
Atlas of Remote Sensing of the Wenchuan Earthquake
ISBN: 9781439816745 / Angielski / Twarda / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In May 12, 2008, the Wenchuan County earthquake caused devastating loss of human life and property. Applying all the remote sensing technology available, the Chinese Academy of Sciences immediately launched into action, making full use of its state-of-the-art facilities, remote sensing planes, and satellites to amass invaluable optical and radar data. This unprecedented use of comprehensive remote sensing techniques provided accurate, up to the minute information for disaster management and has left us with a visually stunning and beautiful record that is as much a scientific achievement... In May 12, 2008, the Wenchuan County earthquake caused devastating loss of human life and property. Applying all the remote sensing technology avai... |
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Predictive Pore-Scale Modelling of Multiphase Flow
ISBN: 9783639053289 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Flow properties for a variety of porous media can
be predicted using pore-scale modelling with geologically realistic networks. A state of the art pore-scale network model is developed for this purpose. It combines topologically disordered networks that represent real systems with detailed displacement mechanisms for any sequence of water and oil flooding, and any wettability. The model is verified by successfully predicting experimental relative permeability from a well described water-wet Berea sandstone. More complex experimental data are subsequently investigated. By developing... Flow properties for a variety of porous media can
be predicted using pore-scale modelling with geologically realistic networks. A state of the... |
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PCB Contamination in Molluscs of the Hudson River Estuary, NY, USA
ISBN: 9783639138528 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A sampling program was developed to determine whether the PCBs known to have been present in the operations of the two GE plants located upriver in the Hudson River Estuary were still detectable after 20 years. Bivalve molluscs were collected from 98 Peterson grab samples and subsequently analyzed for PCBs. In all but one case, the PCBs detected were found to be Aroclor 1254, that which is typically considered to be linked to the upsteam GE contamination. Concentrations were discovered in excess of both federal USEPA levels and New York State standards for fish consumption. The concentrations...
A sampling program was developed to determine whether the PCBs known to have been present in the operations of the two GE plants located upriver in th...
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Understanding The Earth: A Reader in the Earth Sciences
ISBN: 9780262570244 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book covers exciting advances in the Earth sciences such as plate tectonics; the accurate dating of rocks by radiometric methods; the Earth's internal composition, magnetic field, heat and internal temperatures; the Chandler Wobble; meteorites; and the Earth-Moon system.
This book covers exciting advances in the Earth sciences such as plate tectonics; the accurate dating of rocks by radiometric methods; the Earth's int...
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Long Term Electromagnetic Monitoring at Parkfield CA
ISBN: 9783639146578 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Electric and magnetic fields in the ULF band
were monitored at two sites adjacent to the San Andreas Fault near Parkfield and Hollister, California. A data window enclosing the September 28, 2004 M6 Parkfield earthquake, was analyzed to determine if anomalous electric or magnetic fields, or changes in ground conductivity, occurred before the earthquake. Three main statistical techniques were employed to separate local anomalous electrical or magnetic fields from the dominant coherent natural fields: transfer function and residual field estimates between components at each site; principal... Electric and magnetic fields in the ULF band
were monitored at two sites adjacent to the San Andreas Fault near Parkfield and Hollister, C... |
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A Modelling Study in Mountain Meteorology
ISBN: 9783639151091 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are very few studies conducted to understand the impact of a tropical mountain on the weather and climate of a region with an integrated approach. The main difficulties in these type of studies are the lack of insitu observations over the inhospitable terrain and also maintaining an obseravational platform in different terrain of the study area. The solution to this problem can be tackled to a great extent by the use of a meso-scale model. In this study, with the help of a Meso-scale model MM5, the data has been generated for 17 years with a resolution of 10 kms and also the orography...
There are very few studies conducted to understand the impact of a tropical mountain on the weather and climate of a region with an integrated approac...
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DEM GENERATION and OCEAN TIDE MODELING using InSAR
ISBN: 9783639156102 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Accurate knowledge of the Antarctic ice sheet mass
balance plays an important role on the global sea level change. Here two-pass differential InSAR (DInSAR) technique is applied for tidal signal modeling underneath the Sulzberger ice shelf, West Antarctica. The fine resolution DEM over grounded ice and ice shelf, obtained by combining ERS-1/2 tandem InSAR and ICESat laser altimetry, has been used to correct the topography phase from interferograms, resulting in a more accurate time series of vertical deformation measurements. In this study, it is demonstrated for the first time,... Accurate knowledge of the Antarctic ice sheet mass
balance plays an important role on the global sea level change. Here two-pass differentia... |
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Pacific Multidecadal Climate Variability in CCSM3
ISBN: 9783639116311 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Pacific multidecadal climate variability (PMV) is
an important phenomenon that has significant economic and societal impact. It is not only of considerable scientific interest but also a central component for potential long-term climate prediction. In this study, the PMV in the Community Climate System Model version 3 (CCSM3) is investigated with a combined statistical and dynamical approach. Specifically designed sensitivity experiments are performed to explicitly identify the origin of the PMV. The results support a North Pacific origin for the PMV, with the ... The Pacific multidecadal climate variability (PMV) is
an important phenomenon that has significant economic and societal impact. It is <... |
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Essay on the Theory of the Earth
ISBN: 9781108005555 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Essay on the Theory of the Earth was the last work of the scientific writer Robert Kerr who translated it from the introductory essay of George Cuvier's four-volume Recherches sur les ossements fossiles de quadrupedes. Before its first publication in 1813, the essay was partly expanded by the geologist and natural historian Robert Jameson who wrote a preface and included extensive notes on mineralogy. Using geological evidence as its principal source of enquiry, Cuvier's essay attempts to address the questions of the origins of the human race, the formation of the earth, and the correlation...
Essay on the Theory of the Earth was the last work of the scientific writer Robert Kerr who translated it from the introductory essay of George Cuvier...
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323,70 zł |