Preface -- Chapter 1: Motivation -- Chapter 2: State-of-the-Art -- Chapter 3: Objectives -- Chapter 4: Physical Background -- Chapter 5: Data -- Chapter 6: Methodology -- Chapter 7: A Statistical Model based on Non-stationary Predictors -- Chapter 8: Interdecadal changes in the SST-driven teleconnections with the Sahel -- Chapter 9: Modulation of the non-stationary Mediterranean-Sahel teleconne…
Geoinformatics & Applications -- Land Use Land Cover Mapping & Urban Form Assessment -- Lidar Drone and Emerging Technologies Applications -- Rock Formations & Soil Lithology Mapping -- Vegetation Mapping impact Assessment -- Natural Hazards Monitoring & Mapping -- Ground Water Mapping & Assessment -- Coastal Management & Marine Environement -- Atmospheric Sensing.This edited volume is based on…
Introduction -- Solar-Terrestrial Interactions -- Space Weather Causes and Effects -- Ionospheric Disturbances -- Ionospheric Storm Morphology -- Ionospheric Storm Origins and Models -- Ionospheric Irregularities -- Ionospheric Space Weather and Radio Propagation -- Conclusions.This book describes essential concepts of, and the status quo in, the field of ionospheric space weather. It explains …
Introduction -- Future Changes in Rainfall and Temperature under Emission Scenarios over India for Agriculture -- Impact of El-Nino and La-Nina on Indian Climate and Crop Production -- Simulating the Impact of Climate Change and its Variability on Indian Agriculture -- Are GCMs and Crop Model Capable to Provide Useful Information for Decision Making -- Mapping Agriculture Dynamics and Associate…
Preface -- Governing equations -- Preliminaries -- Time-marching problems -- The diffusion problem -- The advection problem -- The Shallow-water approximation -- Open boundary conditions -- general vertical coordinates -- Two-dimensional problems -- Advanced topics -- Appendix: Introduction to Fortran via examples.This textbook introduces step by step the basic numerical methods to solve the eq…
Preface -- 1. History and Description of Ice Ages -- 2. Variability of the Earth's climate -- 3. Ice core methodology -- 4. Ice core data -- 5. Ocean sediment data. etc.It is not so long ago (a mere 17,000 years – a blink in geologic time) that vast areas of the Northern Hemisphere were covered with ice sheets up to two miles thick, lowering the oceans by more than 120 m. By 11,000 years ago,…
Chapter1: Polarization, scattering, and propagation of electromagnetic waves -- Chapter2: Polarimetric Doppler radar -- Chapter3: Scattering by an ensemble hydrometeors - Polarimetric perspective. Chapter4: Microphysical and dielectric properties of hydrometeors -- Chapter5: Polarimetric variables -- Chapter6: Data quality and measurement errors -- Chapter7: Polarimetric “fingerprints” of m…
Introduction -- 1. Global and Regional variability of Tropical Cyclone-induced thermocline Warming -- 2. How has the expansion of the Tropics affected Tropical Cyclogensis? -- 3. Current and Future Cyclone Activity in High-resolution Global Model Ensemble Simulations -- 4. Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Changes in a Warmer Climate -- 5. Forecasting Catastrophe Losses in a Changing Climate -- Conclus…
The Earth's Climate and its Response to Solar Variability: The Climate System -- Atmospheric Dynamics, Modes of Variability and Climate Modelling -- Climate Records -- Radiative Processes in the Atmosphere -- The Greenhouse Effect and Radiative Forcing of Climate Change -- Clouds -- Atmospheric Photochemistry -- Response of Climate to Variations in Solar Irradiance -- The Earth's Electric Field…
Impact Tectonics — General Aspects -- “Pseudotachylites” in Large Impact Structures -- The Mechanics of Pseudotachylite Formation in Impact Events -- Silicified Cone-in-Cone Structures from Erfoud (Morocco): A Comparison with Impact-Generated Shatter Cones -- Redistribution of Lithologies in Impact-induced Dikes of Impact Structures -- The Preliminary Analysis of Polygonal Impact Craters …