Category Archives: Geophysics

Airglow as an Indicator of Upper Atmospheric Structure and Dynamics

The book summarizes international progress over the last few decades in upper atmosphere airglow research. Measurement methods, theoretical concepts and empirical models of a wide spectrum of upper atmospheric emissions and their variability are considered. The book contains a detailed … Continue reading

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Convective and Advective Heat Transfer in Geological Systems (Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics)

This monograph aims to provide state-of-the-art theoretical results in a systematic treatment of convective and advective heat transfer during fluid flow in geological systems at the crustal scale. Although some numerical results are provided to complement theoretical ones, the main … Continue reading

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The Earth’s Atmosphere: Its Physics and Dynamics

The book entitled “Atmospheric science and Global Warming” coversa wide area of the atmospheric science, focussing particularly on those physical and dynamical aspects of our environment which tend to create heat sources and sinks in the earth-atmosphere system and which … Continue reading

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Fossil Earthquakes: The Formation and Preservation of Pseudotachylytes (Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences)

This book focuses on the earthquake source materials produced or deformed by both seismic faulting and aseismic creep within seismogenic fault zones at different levels of the crust. In particular, the mechanisms and processes involved in the formation of earthquake … Continue reading

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GPS: Theory, Algorithms and Applications

This, the second edition of the hugely practical reference and handbook describes kinematic, static and dynamic Global Positioning System theory and applications. It is primarily based upon source-code descriptions of the KSGSoft program developed by the author and his colleagues … Continue reading

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The Great Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008: A Photographic Atlas of Surface Rupture and Related Disaster

“The Great Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008: A Photographic Atlas of Surface Rupture and Related Disaster” focuses on the main deformation characteristics of co-seismic surface rupture, including rupture length and slip distribution of co-seismic surface rupture caused by the Wenchuan Earthquake … Continue reading

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Observational Astrophysics (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library)

This second edition has been entirely restructured and almost doubled in size, in order to improve clarity and account for the great progress achieved in the field over the last 15 years. “This is not a handbook for observers. It … Continue reading

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Potential Theory in Applied Geophysics

This book introduces the principles of gravitational, magnetic, electrostatic, direct current electrical and electromagnetic fields, with detailed solutions of Laplace and electromagnetic wave equations by the method of separation of variables. Discussion includes behaviours of the scalar and vector potential … Continue reading

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Light Scattering Reviews 2 (Springer Praxis Books / Environmental Sciences)

This book is to continue the “Light Scattering Reviews” series devoted to modern knowledge and milestones in both experimental and theoretical techniques related to light scattering and radiative transport problems. It gives a valuable picture of recent developments in the … Continue reading

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The Sun, Solar Analogs and the Climate: Saas-Fee Advanced Course 34, 2004. Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy (Saas-Fee Advanced Courses)

This book presents the lecture notes of the 34th Saas-Fee Advanced Course “The Sun, Solar Analogs and the Climate” given by leading scientists in the field. Emphasis is on the observed variability of the Sun and the present understanding of … Continue reading

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