Initial results from retracking and reprocessing the ERS-1 geodetic mission altimetry for gravity field purposes -- Evaluation of Airborne Gravimetry Integrating GNSS and Strapdown INS Observations -- Status of the European Gravity and Geoid Project EGGP.-Photon Counting Airborne Laser Swath Mapping (PC-ALSM) -- A comparison of different isostatic models applied to satellite gravity gradiometry…
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 -- Introduction -- Part I: Nondestructive Testing Technologies for Cultural Heritage -- 1. NDT Methods in Cultural Built Heritage and Archaeology -- 2. NDT Data Processing Enhancement -- 3. NDT Data Interpretation -- Part II: The NDT Instrumentation -- 1. State of the Art -- 2. NDT Instruments Enhancement -- 3. Acquisition Algorithm Enhancement -- 4. Field Data Acquisition Enhancement -…
Solar Wind, Foreshock, Magnetosheath -- The Near-Earth Solar Wind -- The Foreshock -- The Magnetosheath -- The Bow Shock -- Cluster at the Bow Shock: Introduction -- Quasi-perpendicular Shock Structure and Processes -- Quasi-parallel Shock Structure and Processes -- Cluster at the Bow Shock: Status and Outlook -- Magnetopause and CUSP -- Magnetopause and Boundary Layer -- Cluster at the Magneto…
Entropy Production by Earth System Processes -- Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics in an Energy-Rich Universe -- Stumbling Into the MEP Racket: An Historical Perspective -- Maximum Entropy Production and Non-Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics -- Using Ecology to Quantify Organization in Fluid Flows -- Cosmological and Biological Reproducibility: Limits on the Maximum Entropy Production Principle -- …
Case Studies -- 1992–2002: Perspective on a Decade of Post-Tsunami Surveys -- The Fiordland Earthquake and Tsunami, New Zealand, 21 August 2003 -- Timing and Scale of Tsunamis Caused by the 1994 Rabaul Eruption, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea -- Analysis of Tide-Gauge Records of the 1883 Krakatau Tsunami -- Model of Tsunami Generation by Collapse of Volcanic Eruption: The 1741 Oshima-Oshi…
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…
From the contents: Fracture Physics: The Griffith Criterion; Nucleation; Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanisms; Dynamic Fracture; Subcritical Cracking -- Fracture Geology: Fractography and Tectonofractography; Uplift, Post-Uplift, Neotectonic and Surface Joints; Primary and Secondary Fractures -- Four Fracture Provinces in Sedimentary Rocks: The Appalachian Plateau; The Bristol Channel Basin; Zion…
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…
Basics of Ring Theory -- Basics of Polynomial Theory -- Groebner Basis -- Polynomial Resultants -- Gauss-Jacobi Combinatorial Algorithm -- Local versus Global Positioning Systems -- Partial Procrustes and the Orientation Problem -- Positioning by Ranging -- From Geocentric Cartesian to Ellipsoidal Coordinates -- Positioning by Resection Methods -- Positioning by Intersection Methods -- GPS Mete…