Bøger i Geophysical Sciences serien

The atmosphere and climate of Mars is a crucial factor, both for understanding the planet's past and appreciating the possibilities of its future.

This is the only book solely about Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanically active body in the solar system. Written by experts in the field, many of whom took part in the Galileo mission, the book reviews the basics about Io and its unique space environment.

The numerous line drawings are clearly reproduced, although the mediocre quality of photographic reproduction limits the value of air photographs and satellite images. Some of the writing is so dense that it requires minute concentration--one chapter, for instance, has 14 pages of references from a total of 43 pages.

Volcanoes have always fascinated scientists and the general public. This book provides state-of-the-art techniques for real-time volcano monitoring and analysis using space-borne data. The book fills a huge gap in the science of volcano remote sensing.

This book describes how sand dunes work, why they are the way they are in different settings, and how they are being studied. It compares and contrasts the characteristics and formation of sand dunes on Earth, Mars and Titan.

This book provides a summary of geodynamic results from Iceland that presently are found in a great number of scientific articles, but have not been collected before in a book.

This book covers Interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) imaging of Aleutian volcanoes. InSAR is a relatively new remote sensing tool whose images enable the construction of detailed mechanical models to enhance the study of magmatic processes.

Initially, the role of snow and ice in the global water balance is assessed and methods of snow measurements are explained. Following a review of snow melt and runoff modelling, the Snowmelt Runoff Model (SRM) demonstrates the merits of remote sensing in snow hydrology by using the satellite data as a direct input variable.

This will be the first book that deals with the use of commercial satellite imagery to monitor non-proliferation of nuclear weapons non-intrusively from space by an international organisation.

The variety of applications of remotely sensed data to ocean science has grown significantly and new areas of science are emerging to exploit the gobal datasets being recovered by satellites, particularly in relation to climate and climate change, basin-scale, air-sea interaction processes (e.g.

This book reviews current research on detecting (long-range) correlations in complex time series. Covers modern techniques including Hurst analysis, the detrended fluctuation analysis and the wavelet transform, in light of the natural time domain.

This guide is for the non-specialist. It provides all the relevant information to handle the instruments, survey a field, and interpret the computer results for a geophysics operation in archaeology, and it explains all the science as simply as possible.

Tsunamis are underrated as major hazards, mainly due to the misconceptions that they occur infrequently and happen along some distant shoreline. However, evidence for past great tsunami has recently been discovered along apparently aseismic and protected coastlines, such as those of Australia and Western Europe.

This is a state-of-the-art interpretive presentation of satellite image data, and analysis of the current state of the world's glaciers. Experts in satellite image analysis of glaciers analyze and interpret the changing nature of glaciers across the globe.

Describes the techniques used by volcanologists to successfully predict several volcanic eruptions by combining information from various scientific disciplines, including geodetic techniques. This book includes chapters on the developments in the use of the Global Positioning System and Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry techniques.

The most consistent signatures of climate warming have occurred at northern high latitudes (IPCC, 2001), and the potential impacts of a few degrees increase in surface temperature include a reduction in sea ice extent, a positive feedback to climate warming due to lowering of surface albedo, and changes to surface runo?

This book offers a survey of the contribution of satellite data to the study of the ocean, focusing on the special insights that only satellite data can bring to oceanography.

Sonar performance modelling (SPM) is concerned with the prediction of quantitative measures of sonar performance, such as probability of detection. He has written many peer reviewed research articles and conference papers related to sonar performance modeling, making contributions in the fields of sound propagation and detection theory.

Global Land Ice Measurements from Space

With climate change and deforestation, debris flows and debris avalanches have become the most significant landslide hazards in many countries. Matthias Jakob has worked on debris flow for over a decade and has had numerous papers published on the topic, as well as working as a consultant on debris flow for municipal and provincial governments.

Using the special natural conditions in Iceland as a "test area", this book describes the major efforts in earthquake prediction research worldwide. The results obtained in Iceland are of significance for earthquake prediction research around the world.

This story of the Galileo spacecraft probe to Jupiter`s moon provides a unique understanding of the Galileo images of Europa, and examines in detail the physical setting that might sustain extra-terrestrial life in Europa's ocean and icy crust.

The first book on the subject, this monograph examines the phenomenon of a huge sealed, freshwater lake, isolated from the rest of the world by kilometers' thick ice.

This book will arouse interest among those involved with Baltic problems. It also gives important background information for those working with biogeochemical processes in the Baltic Sea, because the physical forcing for those processes is of vital importance.

This unique collaboration of Russian and Norwegian scientists examines the most recent data on the White Sea bathymetry, examines the ecosystem profile, and provides extensive historical marine and riverine data records.

A group of authors from the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in St Petersburg, Russia, have all achieved individual doctoral theses on various aspects of Arctic and Antarctic research. This book is written by experienced group of researchers and authors.

Remote Sensing of Sea Ice in the Northern Sea Route: Studies and Applications initially provides a history of the Northern Sea Route as an important strategic transport route for supporting the northern regions of Russia and cargo transportation between Europe and the Northern Pacific Basin.