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This book provides a review of thermal ice drilling technologies, including the design, parameters, and performance of various tools and drills for making holes in ice sheets, ice caps, mountain glaciers, ice shelves, and sea ice. In recent years, interest in thermal...
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Springer
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2019-07-04
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This book discusses the water and carbon cycle system in the permafrost region of eastern Siberia, Providing vitalin sights into how climate change has affected the permafrost environment in recent decades. It analyzes the relationships between precipitation and...
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Springer
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2019-07-01
Collection :
Ecological Studies
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This open access book asks just how climate-smart our food really is. It follows an average day's worth of food and drink to see where it comes from, how far it travels, and the carbon price we all pay for it. From our breakfast tea and toast, through breaktime...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-07-01
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The book provides a review of the most relevant topics on the booming discipline of palaeohydrology and focuses on previous extreme events like exceptional floods and droughts. Reviews written by leading experts of their fields are combined with selected key studies and...
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Springer
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2019-06-29
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Global change involves complex and far-reaching variations in the Earth’s systems, and satellite observations have been widely used in global change studies. Over the past five decades, Earth observation has developed into a comprehensive system that can conduct dynamic...
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Springer
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2019-06-27
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Over the last two decades, the scientific and popular media have been bombarded by gloom and doom stories of the future of fisheries, the status of fish stocks, and the impact of fishing on marine ecosystems. Dozens of certification and labeling schemes have emerged to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-06-27
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This book comprises select papers presented at the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2018). The book covers inter-disciplinary research and applications in integrated water resource management, river ecology, irrigation...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-06-26
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This comprehensive atlas explains the genesis and evolution of impact known craters on Earth, presenting a wealth of radar images from the Italian COSMO-SkyMed satellites that were acquired at the same frequency, spatial resolution, operating mode, and illumination,...
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Springer
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2019-06-25
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This book provides an overview of various application spheres and supports further innovations needed in information management and in the processes of knowledge generation. The professions, organizations and scientific associations involved are unusually challenged by...
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Springer
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2019-06-21
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This book comprises select proceedings of the First International Conference on Geomatics in Civil Engineering (ICGCE 2018).This book presents latest research on applications of geomatics engineering in different domains of civil engineering, like structural...
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Springer
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2019-06-19
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This book provides an introduction to ocean sciences that is engaging, evocative and accessible to non-experts interested in marine geoscience, while sparking readers' interest in important unsolved mysteries in marine science. The scope of the book is quite broad,...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-06-12
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Support students through the Internal Assessment with advice and guidance including how to choose a topic, approach the investigation and analyse and evaluate results.- Build investigative and analytical skills through a range of strategies and detailed examiner advice...
Editeur :
Hodder Education
Parution :
2019-06-10
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This is the first English language book to systematically introduce basic theories, methods and applications of disaster risk science from the angle of different subjects including disaster science, emergency technology and risk management. Viewed from basic theories,...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-06-04
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This book provides an in-depth description of water resources of Turkey, a country with a unique geographical location, extending from the Mediterranean in Europe to the Middle East. Its varying geography, topography, hydrology, geology and climate are reflected in the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-06-04
Collection :
World Water Resources
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This book introduces selected contributions from the GEGAL (Spanish acronym for Latin American Geoarchaeological Studies Group) Workshop held at La Paloma Beach, Uruguay, with a focus on Coastal Geoarchaeology, and an attendance of more than 50 researchers,...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-06-03
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Das Buch befasst sich mit den Themen Nachhaltigkeit und Nachhaltigkeitsziele der UN. Obwohl letztere schon 2015 verabschiedet wurden und die Umsetzung bis 2030 abgeschlossen sein soll, herrscht gegenwärtig noch immer ein Mangel an Initiativen, die die...
Editeur :
Springer Spektrum
Parution :
2019-05-31
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The British have always been obsessed by the weather. Thomas Hornsby, who founded the Radcliffe Observatory in Oxford in 1772, began weather observations at the site. They continue daily to this day, unbroken since 14 November 1813, the longest continuous series of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-30
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The scientific expedition of H.M.S. Challenger in the 1870s marks the starting point of physical oceanography. This ship traveled the seas of the globe pursuing a dual objective: to conduct an in-depth study of animal life and to observe the physical properties of ocean...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2019-05-29
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An interdisciplinary study of the Kuroshio nutrient stream The surface water of the Kuroshio, a western boundary current in the North Pacific Ocean, is nutrient-depleted and has relatively low primary productivity, yet abundant fish populations are supported in the...
Editeur :
American Geophysical Union
Parution :
2019-05-29
Collection :
Geophysical Monograph Series
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This book discusses various statistical models and their implications for developing landslide susceptibility and risk zonation maps. It also presents a range of statistical techniques, i.e. bivariate and multivariate statistical models and machine learning models, as...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-05-28
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