Isotope Hydrology: A Historical Perspective from the IAEA -- Isotopic and Nuclear Methodologies -- Isotopic Tracers for Obtaining Hydrologic Parameters -- Hydrologic Process Studies Using Radionuclides Produced by Cosmic Rays -- Stable Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotopes in Precipitation -- Tritium in the Hydrologic Cycle -- Assessing Sources and Transformations of Sulphate and Nitrate in the Hydrosph…
The subject, the players, and the principle basis -- History of the notion of global warming -- Conclusions of the IPCC (Working Group I) -- Science, media, politics... -- Greenhouse effect — water effect -- Causes of climate change -- Models and climate -- The general circulation of the atmosphere -- The lessons of the observation of real facts -- The observational facts: Past climates -- Th…
Preface -- Cluster Observations of the Cusp: Magnetic Structure and Dynamics -- Magion-4 High-Altitude Cusp Study -- High-Altitude Cusp: The Extremely Dynamic Region in Geospace -- Magnetosheath Interaction with the high Latitude Magnetopause -- Cluster Observes the High-Altitude Cusp Region -- Low-Frequency Plasma Waves in the Outer Polar Cusp: A Review of Observations from Prognoz 8, Interbal…
to Lidar -- Polarization in Lidar -- Lidar and Multiple Scattering -- Lidar and Atmospheric Aerosol Particles -- High Spectral Resolution Lidar -- Visibility and Cloud Lidar -- Differential-Absorption Lidar for Ozone and Industrial Emissions -- Differential-Absorption Lidar for Water Vapor and Temperature Profiling -- Raman Lidar -- Temperature Measurements with Lidar -- Resonance Scattering Li…
The Basic Facts of Imaging the Ocean -- Preliminary Remarks -- Alternatives to Imaging the Sea by Sound and First Acoustic Trials -- Acoustic Features of the Sea -- Technical and Physical Characteristics of High Resolution Echosounders -- Applications of Acoustic Imaging the Ocean -- The Sea Floor — Natural Formations -- The Ocean Volume -- Man-made Matter.Ocean acoustics comprises a key subf…
Analytical Chemistry -- Toxic Metals -- Organic Pollutants -- Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds -- Pesticides -- Green Chemistry -- Ecotoxicology.Environmental chemistry is a new, fast developing science aimed at deciphering fundamental mechanisms ruling the behaviour of pollutants in ecosystems. Applying this knowledge to current environmental issues leads to the remediation of environmental media…
Drift ice material -- Ice kinematics -- Sea ice rheology -- Equation of drift ice motion -- Free drift -- Drift in the presence of internal friction -- Numerical modelling -- Use and need for knowledge on ice drift -- Study problems -- References.The author presents in The Drift of Sea Ice the fundamental laws of sea ice drift which come from the material properties of sea ice and the basic law…
Linking Climate and Economic Dynamics -- Coupling Climate and Economic Dynamics: Recent Achievements and Unresolved Problems -- An Oracle Method to Couple Climate and Economic Dynamics -- An Abrupt Stochastic Damage Function to Analyze Climate Policy Benefits -- A Viability Approach to Global Climate Change Issues -- Climate Policy Cooperation Games between Developed and Developing Nations: A Q…
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…
Historical perspective -- South Asian monsoon -- East Asian monsoon -- Pan-America -- Australian-Indonesian monsoon -- The oceans -- Air-sea interaction -- Mass, momentum, and geodynamics -- El Niño Southern Oscillation connection -- Theory -- Modeling -- Predictability and forecasting.As the first comprehensive and authoritative review of intra-seasonal variability (ISV), this multi-author wo…