Earth Science: New Methods and Studies

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Roy H. Williams
CRC Press, 15 dic 2011 - 283 páginas
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.Earth science is a broad field of study that encompasses many different disciplines, including meteorology, climatology, and geology. The importance of the earth sciences-in predicting weather and climate, tracking pollution, drilling for petroleum, evaluating soil, and monitoring ground water-is
 

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1 Cyberinfrastructure and Data Services for Earth System Science Education and Research
1
2 Health Benefits of Geologic Materials and Geologic Processes
16
3 Cloud Statistics from Spaceborne Lidar Systems
24
4 Preearthquake Signals
44
5 Using Earthquakes to Uncover the Earths Inner Secrets
53
6 Ground Water Desalination
60
7 Deforestation Prediction for Different Carbonprices
66
8 Volcanic Hazards and Evacuation Procedures
90
10 Ionospheric Quasistatic Electric Field Anomalies During Seismic Activity
124
11 Ecosystem Changes in the Northern South China Sea
146
12 Lower Miocene Stratigraphy Along the Panama Canal
170
13 Remote Sensing Data with the Conditional Latin Hypercube Sampling
192
14 The Global Sweep of Pollution
216
15 Geodetic Network Design for Disaster Management
229
Permissions
243
References
245

9 Identification of Earthquake Induced Damage Areas
112
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Sobre el autor (2011)

Professor Roy H. Williams is an astronomer and educator at the Kopernik Observatory in Vestal, New York. He has trained on the spectrograph and is certified in both earth science and physical science. He has taught in several New York districts as well as at several other colleges. He writes a monthly column in the Press & Sun-Bulletin newspaper (Binghamton, New York) and makes monthly live appearances on local television newscasts. He also helped to create a computerized sky atlas using Turbo Pascal and in his role at Kopernik Observatory has worked with both astronaut Dan Bursch and astronomer John Dobson.

Información bibliográfica

TítuloEarth Science: New Methods and Studies
EditorRoy H. Williams
EditorCRC Press, 2011
ISBN1466558288, 9781466558281
N.º de páginas283 páginas
  
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