Kategoria BISAC: Science >> Physics - Geophysics

Das menschliche Leben ist abhangig vom Wetter; die moderne Technologie macht dies nicht weniger deutlich als altertumliche Lebensweisen. Wohnen, Arbeiten, Landnutzung und Verkehr geben Beispiele hierfur. Die Berucksichtigung meteorologischer Faktoren z.B. bei Standortplanungen oder Routenberatungen, bei Entwicklungsprogrammen oder groen Projekten der Raumfahrt lat erkennen, da die lang ubersehenen Zusammenhange stark in das Bewutsein der Offentlichkeit dringen. Das Studium der atmospharischen Ablaufe - des Wetters - ist wichtig, um den Grad der Wetterabhangigkeit zu mindern und die...

These Proceedings include the written version of papers presented at the IAG International Symposium on "Gravity, Geoid and Earth Observation 2008." The Symposium was held in Chania, Crete, Greece, 23-27 June 2008 and organized by the Laboratory of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece. The meeting was arranged by the International Association of Geodesy and in particular by the IAG Commission 2: Gravity Field.

The symposium aimed at bringing together geodesists and geophysicists working in the general areas of gravity, geoid, geodynamics and Earth...

Many text books have been written on the subject "Exploration Geophysics." The majority of these texts focus on the theory and the mathematical treatment of the subject matter but lack treatment of practical aspects of geophysical exploration. This text is written in simple English to explain the physical meaning of jargon, or terms used in the industry. It describes how seismic data is acquired in 2-D and 3-D, how they are processed to convert the raw data to seismic vertical and horizontal cross sections, that are geologically meaningful, and how these and other data are interpreted to...

Seismic early warning is being recognized as a methodology which offers the biggest potential for real time seismic risk mitigation, particularly in towns and industrial areas. In order to be effectively applied it requires close cooperation between seismologists, communication experts and seismic engineers. The added value of this book is to offer an overview of frontier problems related to all aspects of the seismic early warning chain, from basic seismological issues to engineering problems and system reliability. Early warning seismic networks also provide near real time shake maps for...

This volume combines review and solicited contributions, related to scientific studies of Division I of IAGA presentedat its Scientific Assembly in Sopron in 2009. The book is aimed at intermediate to advanced readers dealing with the Earth s magnetic field generation, its historical records in rocks and geological formations - including links to geodynamics and magnetic dating, with magnetic carriers in earth materials, electromagnetic induction and conductivity studies of the Earth interior with environmental applications of rock magnetism and electromagnetism. The aim of the book is to...

The process of regional-residual separation in potential field is age-old. Broadly, there are two techniques for regional-residual resolution, viz., graphical and analytical. Both the techniques have their own respective shortcomings. In this book, the authors have described the technique based on finite element method in which only eight (or twelve) nodal observed gravity values are used for the regional computation, thereby eliminating the possible contamination of anomalous fields and also the technique does not assume an explicit model and physical properties like density of rocks etc....