Résumé-Synthèse -- Analytical Techniques for Measuring Fluxes of CO2 and CH4 from Hydroelectric Reservoirs and Natural Water Bodies -- Development and Use of an Experimental near Infrared Open Path Diode Laser Prototype for Continuous Measurement of CO2 and CH4 Fluxes from Boreal Hydro Reservoirs and Lakes -- Greenhouse Gas Fluxes (CO2, CH4 and N2O) in Forests and Wetlands of Boreal, Tempera…
"I know of no similar work (in scope, content and orientation). That is why we are all waiting so anxiously for this volume to be completed. Its perspective is unique." Charles Finkl, Editor to the Journal of Coastal Research.
Introduction -- Formation and Types of Natural Ice Masses -- Properties and Mechanical Behaviour of Ice -- Sea Ice in Civil Engineering Applications -- Sea Ice in Geophysical Applications -- Micro-Mechanical Modes of Polar Ice -- Phenomenological Constitutive Models for Polar Ice -- Polar Ice Sheet Flow Models.This book presents the concepts and tools of ice mechanics, together with examples of…
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,…
Section I: Regional Climate Change Signals -- 1. Land surface feedback and impacts of land use change to Indian Monsoon Rainfall -- 2. Intraseasonal short-term suppression of monsoon by aerosols -- 3. Future hydrologic scenarios in India under climate change -- 4. Links between global climate teleconnections and Indian monsoon rainfall -- 5. Urbanisation and Surface Urban Heat Island Intensity …
History of Speleology, Biospeleology, Endangered Caves/Legislation -- Geology, hydrogeology, and tectonics of karstic terrains-Romania -- Subcarphatians Mountains -- Caves and Karst Systems of Romania -- Mine galleries, artificial caves -- Paleoclimate -- Speleothems -- Mineralogy -- Archeology/Anthropology, Rupestrian paintings.This book focuses on Romania’s more than 12,000 caves, which dev…
Foreword 1 -- Foreword 2 -- Foreword 3 -- Acknowledgement -- Part I. Introduction -- Part II. Landscape evolutions in the human-environment system -- Part III. Natural disasters and impacts on the past societies -- Part IV. Climatic factors in the transitions of social systems -- Part V. Social adaptation and resilience to environmental stresses -- Part VI. Social-culture in connection with the…
Chapter 1. Introduction (Cristián Henríquez and Hugo Romero) -- Part I: Urban Heat Island, Local Climate Zone and Thermal Comfort -- Chapter 2. Urban Climates of Large Cities: Comparison of Urban Heat Island Effect in Latin American (Pablo Sarricolea and Oliver Meseguer-Ruiz) -- Chapter 3. Urban Climate in the South-American Coastal Cities of Guayaquil, Lima, Antofagasta and Valparaiso and it…
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…