Preface -- Introduction, North Pole (NP) drifting ice camp brief history -- Main scientific results -- Atmosphere -- Meterological observations at North Pole drifting stations -- Solar radiation regime -- Albedo of the snow cover -- Atmospheric processes over the North polar seas and long-range weather forecasting -- Sea ice cover -- Geophysical observations at the ice drifting stations 'North …
Evolution of a Concept -- Stratigraphy: Evolution of a Concept -- The Search for Patterns: Ordering the Framework -- Buried Time: Chronostratigraphy as a Research Tool -- Ecostratigraphy’s Basis, using Silurian and Devonian Examples, with Consideration of the Biogeographic Complication -- Devonian Palynostratigraphy in Western Gondwana -- Carboniferous and Permian Palynostratigraphy -- Biostr…
The Middle Atmosphere and its Evolution -- Chemical Concepts in the Atmosphere -- Dynamics and Transport -- Radiation -- Composition and Chemistry -- Ozone Perturbations -- The Ions.Since the Industrial Revolution the chemical composition of the atmosphere has changed at a rate unprecedented in recent history. Ozone depletion emerged as one of the most important environmental issues of the 20th…
An Overview of Enhanced Modal Identification -- The Reciprocity Gap Functional for Identifying Defects and Cracks -- Some innovative industrial prospects centered on inverse analyses -- Identification of damage in beam and plate structures using parameter dependent modal changes and thermographic methods -- Crack and Flaw Identification in Statics and Dynamics, using Filter Algorithms and Soft …
Transport properties of porous media -- Transport in Porous Media: Upscaling by Multiscale Asymptotic Expansions -- Micromechanical Analysis of Saturated Porous Media with Local Mass Exchange Phenomenon -- Diffusive transport in disordered media. Application to the determination of the tortuosity and the permeability of cracked materials. -- Microporomechanics -- Poroelasticity and strength of …
Korteweg de-Vries Equation -- Weakly Nonlinear Wave Packets and the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation -- Wave Interactions -- Wave-mean interaction theory -- Wave Turbulence with Applications to Atmospheric and Oceanic Waves -- Nonlinear Amplitude Equations and Soliton Excitations in Bose-Einstein Condensates.Although nonlinear waves occur in nearly all branches of physics and engi neering, the…
Model structure and processes -- to the transport equation -- Solving hydrodynamics -- Solving hydrodynamics and dispersion -- Modelling the dispersion of non conservative radionuclides -- Lagrangian dispersion models -- Dispersion in estuaries: an example -- Sensitivity analysis -- Review of some radionuclide dispersion models.This book is a practical guide to the subject of numerical modelli…
Theories for the Semantics of Geospatial Information -- Comparing Representations of Geographic Knowledge Expressed as Conceptual Graphs -- Ontology Ontogeny: Understanding How an Ontology Is Created and Developed -- Representing the Meaning of Spatial Behavior by Spatially Grounded Intentional Systems -- Formal Representations for Geospatial Data -- Processes and Events in Dynamic Geo-Networks…
Geologic evolution of the Canarian Islands of Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria and La Gomera and comparison of landslides at these islands with those at Tenerife, La Palma and El Hierro -- Salt Diapirs, Salt Brine Seeps, Pockmarks and Surficial Sediment Creep and Slides in the Canary Channel off NW Africa -- Comparison of volcanic rifts on La Palma and El Hierro, Canary Islands and the Is…
The Finite Difference Method -- Finite Difference Calculus -- Elliptic Equations -- Iterative Methods for Elliptic Equations -- Parabolic Equations -- Hyperbolic Equations -- The Finite Element Method -- General Principles -- A 1-D Tutorial -- Multi-Dimensional Elements -- Time-Dependent Problems -- Vector Problems -- Numerical Analysis -- Inverse Methods -- Inverse Noise, SVD, and Linear Least…