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This book is about weather extremes in the United Kingdom. It presents fascinating and detailed insights into tornadoes (supercell and non-supercell t…

The Carboniferous Shannon Basin of Western Ireland has become one of the most visited field areas in the world. It provides an ideal opportunity for e…

With contributions from key researchers across the globe, and edited by internationally recognized leading academics, Gravel-bed Rivers: Processes and…

Why do earthquakes happen? What properties control the dynamic rupture and what are the processes at play? Chapters in the present volume capture the …

Subduction dynamics has been actively studied through seismology, mineral physics, and laboratory and numerical experiments. Understanding the dynamic…

Water Wells and Boreholes focuses on wells that are used for drinking, industry, agriculture or other supply purposes. Other types of wells and boreho…

Part of The Geological Field Guide Series, Basic Geological Mapping, 5th Edition is an essential basic guide to field techniques in mapping geology. N…

This book presents a comprehensive overview of relative fidelity preservation processing methods and their applications within the oil and gas sector.…

Hydrodynamics of Time-Periodic Groundwater Flow introduces the emerging topic of periodic fluctuations in groundwater. While classical hydrology has o…

This book provides a new look at the climatic history of the last 2.6 million years during the ice age, a time of extreme climatic fluctuations that h…

Rock magnetic cyclostratigraphy merges environmental magnetism, in which rock magnetic measurements are used to detect past environmental change, and …

The time has come. You are an Earth scientist. You’ve spent weeks, months, years working on this project – now is the time to pull it together for pub…

Quantifying the timescales of current geological processes is critical for constraining the physical mechanisms operating on the Earth today. Since th…

This book is designed for first- and second-year university students (and their instructors) in earth science, environmental science, and physical geo…

Uncertainties are pervasive in natural hazards, and it is crucial to develop robust and meaningful approaches to characterize and communicate uncertai…

To understand climate change today, we first need to know how Earth’s climate changed over the past 450 million years. Finding answers depends upon co…

Measuring sea-level change – be that rise or fall – is one of the most pressing scientific goals of our time and requires robust scientific approaches…

The beginning of the new millennium has been particularly devastating in terms of natural disasters associated with tectonic plate boundaries, such as…

Adaptation is the poor cousin of the climate change challenge – the glamour of international debate is around global mitigation agreements, while the …

Several scholars across the globe identified the present lack of high quality damage data as the main constraint to efficient risk mitigation. The nee…

What do we mean by the tropics? The weather and the climates it produces across the tropical zone are significantly different from those experienced b…

Over a half century of exploration of the Earth’s space environment, it has become evident that the interaction between the ionosphere and the magneto…

Sea Ice: Physics and Remote Sensing addresses experiences acquired mainly in Canada by researchers in the fields of ice physics and growth history in …

An expert review of recent progress in the study of turbulent flows with a focus on recently identified organized structures. This book reviews the re…

An invaluable reference that helps geologists recognize and differentiate the many types of natural fractures, induced fractures and artefacts found i…

Seismic inversion aims to reconstruct a quantitative model of the Earth subsurface, by solving an inverse problem based on seismic measurements. There…

Microstructural Geochronology Geochronology techniques enable the study of geological evolution and environmental change over time. This volume integr…

The only book that offers a comprehensive and fully up-to-date coverage of hydroacoustic ocean exploration, this work deals with the diagnostics of no…

In a perspective of sustainable management, the balance between ecological dynamics, social and economic are now at the heart of ecological modeling a…

Deep Earth: Physics and Chemistry of the Lower Mantle and Core highlights recent advances and the latest views of the deep Earth from theoretical, exp…

Defending society against natural hazards is a high-stakes game of chance against nature, involving tough decisions. How should a developing nation al…

Although we are seeing more weather and climate extremes, individual extreme events are very diverse and generalization of trends is difficult. For ex…

Based on an international symposium addressing a key issue in global development, this reference includes both the latest methodologies for and practi…

As a consequence of recent increased awareness of the social and political dimensions of climate, many non-specialists discover a need for information…

This book presents a systemic view of the diversity of pressures and impacts produced by climate change and human actions. Erosion of biodiversity by …

Energy and Global Climate Change: Bridging the Sustainable Development Divide focuses attention on two urgent global development challenges faced by t…

Dawn­Dusk Asymmetries in Planetary Plasma Environments Dawn-dusk asymmetries are ubiquitous features of the plasma environment of many of the planets …

The Terrestrial Water Cycle: Natural and Human-Induced Changes is a comprehensive volume that investigates the changes in the terrestrial water cycle …

The Alps, with their outstanding outcrop conditions, represent a superb natural laboratory for many geological processes, and have played a crucial ro…

The elucidation of the mechanisms and kinematics of shear zone deformation, at both local and regional scales, is the subject of a great deal of inter…

A top priority in climate research is obtaining broad-extent and long-term data to support analyses of historical patterns and trends, and for model d…

Neotectonics involves the study of the motions and deformations of the Earth's crust that are current or recent in geologic time. The Mediterranean re…

Water, energy and food are key resources to sustain life, and are the fundamental to national, regional and global economies. These three resources ar…

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the first longitudinal study of the downstream response of a major river to the establishment of a larg…

Marine resources and their exploitation, recovery and economic networks they generate are here from the perspective now inevitable growing environment…