Regional Aspects Of Climate Terrestrial Hydrologic Interactions In Non Boreal Eastern Europe

Author : Pavel Groisman,Sergiy Ivanov
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048122837

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Regional Aspects of Climate-Terrestrial-Hydrologic Interactions in Non-boreal Eastern Europe by Pavel Groisman,Sergiy Ivanov Pdf

Strong atmosphere-hydrology-biosphere feedbacks including human activity affect the rate and sign of changes in the Earth’s system and have impacts on socioeconomic relationships. These processes are related to atmospheric circulation, climate and land use changes. Satellite-based and in situ monitoring systems have greatly increased our understanding of variations and changes occurring in the regional climate, atmospheric regime, land cover and water circulation. Coupled numerical models are invoked to describe features, which cannot be caught by observation systems or to predict a future state. This book summarizes the state-of-the-art researches on land cover, atmosphere and water resources of the Eastern Europe region, sets up priorities of major researches in these fields, outlines deficiencies in data and their processing, and develops recommendations for further research directions. Selected papers of the Non-Boreal Eastern Europe NEESPI meeting cover five topics: Observational issues in the non-boreal Eastern Europe Regional climate changes Air pollution aspects Land cover and land use changes Changes in the Black Sea and its coastal zone.

Author : Garik Gutman,Volker Radeloff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319426389

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Land-Cover and Land-Use Changes in Eastern Europe after the Collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 by Garik Gutman,Volker Radeloff Pdf

This work analyzes the effects of one of the most dramatic changes of entire societies that the world has ever witnessed. It explores the collapse of socialist governance and management systems on land cover and land use in various parts of Eastern Europe. As readers will discover, this involved rapid and unprecedented changes such as widespread agricultural abandonment. Changes in the countries of the former Soviet block, former Soviet Union republics, and European Russia are compared and contrasted. Contributing authors cover topics such as the carbon cycle and the environment, effects of institutional changes on urban centers and agriculture, as well as changes in wildlife populations. The volume includes analysis of the drivers of agricultural land abandonment, forest changes in Black Sea region, an extreme drought event of 2010, impacts of fires on air quality and other land-cover/land-use issues in Eastern Europe. Satellite data used were mostly from optical sensors including night lights observations, with both coarse and medium spatial resolution. Ultimately, this work highlights the importance of understanding socioeconomic shocks: that is, those brief periods during which societies change rapidly resulting in significant impact on land use and the environment. Thus it shows that change is often abrupt rather than gradual and thereby much harder to predict. This book is a truly international and interdisciplinary effort, written by a team of scientists from the USA, Europe, and Russia. It will be of interest to a broad range of scientists at all levels within natural and social sciences, including those studying recent and ongoing changes in Europe. In particular, it will appeal to geographers, environmental scientists, remote sensing specialists, social scientists and agricultural scientists.

Author : Shyam Singh Yadav,Robert J. Redden,Jerry L. Hatfield,Hermann Lotze-Campen,Anthony E. Hall
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780813820163

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Crop Adaptation to Climate Change by Shyam Singh Yadav,Robert J. Redden,Jerry L. Hatfield,Hermann Lotze-Campen,Anthony E. Hall Pdf

A major task of our time is to ensure adequate food supplies for the world's current population (now nearing 7 billion) in a sustainable way while protecting the vital functions and biological diversity of the global environment. The task of providing for a growing population is likely to be even more difficult in view of actual and potential changes in climatic conditions due to global warming, and as the population continues to grow. Current projections suggest that the world's temperatures will rise 1.8-4.0 by 2100 and population may reach 8 billion by the year 2025 and some 9 billion by mid-century, after which it may stabilize. This book addresses these critical issues by presenting the science needed not only to understand climate change effects on crops but also to adapt current agricultural systems, particularly in regard to genetics, to the changing conditions. Crop Adaptation to Climate Change covers a spectrum of issues related to both crops and climatic conditions. The first two sections provide a foundation on the factors involved in climate stress, assessing current climate change by region and covering crop physiological responses to these changes. The third and final section contains chapters focused on specific crops and the current research to improve their genetic adaptation to climate change. Written by an international team of authors, Crop Adaptation to Climate Change is a timely look at the potentially serious consequences of climate change for our global food supply, and is an essential resource for academics, researchers and professionals in the fields of crop science, agronomy, plant physiology and molecular biology; crop consultants and breeders; as well as climate and food scientists.

Author : Fazlay S. Faruque
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9783038971726

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Remote Sensing and Geospatial Technologies in Public Health by Fazlay S. Faruque Pdf

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Remote Sensing and Geospatial Technologies in Public Health" that was published in IJGI

Author : Seifedine Kadry,Abdelkhalak El Hami
Publisher : Springer
Page : 807 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319071671

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Numerical Methods for Reliability and Safety Assessment by Seifedine Kadry,Abdelkhalak El Hami Pdf

This book offers unique insight on structural safety and reliability by combining computational methods that address multiphysics problems, involving multiple equations describing different physical phenomena and multiscale problems, involving discrete sub-problems that together describe important aspects of a system at multiple scales. The book examines a range of engineering domains and problems using dynamic analysis, nonlinear methods, error estimation, finite element analysis and other computational techniques. This book also: · Introduces novel numerical methods · Illustrates new practical applications · Examines recent engineering applications · Presents up-to-date theoretical results · Offers perspective relevant to a wide audience, including teaching faculty/graduate students, researchers and practicing engineers.

Author : Abiud Kaswamila
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789535127062

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Land Degradation and Desertification by Abiud Kaswamila Pdf

Land degradation which is caused by multiple forces-extreme weather conditions and anthropogenic activities that pollute or degrade the quality of soils and land utility-negatively affects food production, livelihoods, and the provision of other ecosystem goods and services. Land degradation can also lead to climate change and affect human health. The problem is more pronounced in least developing countries due to overdependence of natural resources for survival. Sustainable ways to reduce land degradation and desertification demand research and advocacy of sustainable land management practices. This book is organized into two sections. The first section covers three major aspects, viz., an understanding of patterns of land degradation and desertification for developing mitigation strategies, land-atmosphere interaction from response of land cover to climate change effects of Karst rocky desertification, and the effect of unprecedented human activity into land degradation and desertification processes using natural and human-induced landscape research. The last section dwells on the relationship between soil degradation and crop production and an examination on how land degradation impacts the quality of soil in communal rangelands. Environmentalists, land-use planners, ecologists, pedologists, researchers, and graduate students will find this book to be an essential resource.

Author : Shunlin Liang
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814472616

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Land Surface Observation, Modeling and Data Assimilation by Shunlin Liang Pdf

This book is unique in its ambitious and comprehensive coverage of earth system land surface characterization, from observation and modeling to data assimilation, including recent developments in theory and techniques, and novel application cases. The contributing authors are active research scientists, and many of them are internationally known leading experts in their areas, ensuring that the text is authoritative.This book comprises four parts that are logically connected from data, modeling, data assimilation integrating data and models to applications. Land data assimilation is the key focus of the book, which encompasses both theoretical and applied aspects with various novel methodologies and applications to the water cycle, carbon cycle, crop monitoring, and yield estimation.Readers can benefit from a state-of-the-art presentation of the latest tools and their usage for understanding earth system processes. Discussions in the book present and stimulate new challenges and questions facing today''s earth science and modeling communities.

Author : Volodymyr Lytvynenko,Sergii Babichev,Waldemar Wójcik,Olena Vynokurova,Svetlana Vyshemyrskaya,Svetlana Radetskaya
Publisher : Springer
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030264741

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Lecture Notes in Computational Intelligence and Decision Making by Volodymyr Lytvynenko,Sergii Babichev,Waldemar Wójcik,Olena Vynokurova,Svetlana Vyshemyrskaya,Svetlana Radetskaya Pdf

Information and computer technologies for data analysis and processing in various fields of data mining and machine learning generates the conditions for increasing the effectiveness of information processing by making it faster and more accurate. The book includes 49 scientific papers presenting the latest research in the fields of data mining, machine learning and decision-making. Divided into three sections: “Analysis and Modeling of Complex Systems and Processes”; “Theoretical and Applied Aspects of Decision-Making Systems”; and “Computational Intelligence and Inductive Modeling”, the book is of interest to scientists and developers in the field.

Author : Pavel Ya. Groisman,Garik Gutman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400745698

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Regional Environmental Changes in Siberia and Their Global Consequences by Pavel Ya. Groisman,Garik Gutman Pdf

This volume presents a state-of-the-art assessment of the Earth's climate system in Siberia and relationships between climate, ecosystems and people in that region. Changes in climatic variables and land cover in Siberia are among the earliest indicators of the Earth’s response to climate warming. The volume is a compilation of results from studies on climate, land-cover and land-use changes and their interactions with biogeochemical and water cycles, atmospheric aerosol, and human and wildlife populations in Siberia. Regional changes in Siberia are predicted to affect climate and people on a global scale. NASA, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and several European institutions have supported these studies. The primary supporter of the projects that produced the results compiled in this volume is the NASA Land-Cover/Land-Use Change Program, hence most studies use remote sensing in their research. The chapters in this volume were written by an international team of scientists from the USA, Europe and Russia under the auspices of the Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI). This book will be of interest to those involved in studying recent and ongoing changes in Siberia, be they senior scientists, early career scientists or students.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128164167

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Soil Degradation, Restoration and Management in a Global Change Context by Anonim Pdf

Soil Degradation, Restoration and Management in a Global Change Context, volume four in the Advances in Chemical Pollution, Environmental Management and Protection series, explores a wide breadth of emerging and state-of-the-art technologies and provides the best practices to manage soils affected by degradation. Soils are the base of life, thus a sustainable soil management is crucial in a context of global environmental change. Chapters in this new release include Soil degradation, processes, future treats and possible solutions, Agriculture and grazing environments, Abandoned and afforested lands, Environments affected by fire, Mining environments, Urban areas, and Lands affected by war. Covers a wide breadth of emerging and state-of-the-art technologies Includes contributions from an international board of authors Provides a comprehensive set of reviews Synthesizes all aspects involved in soil degradation

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2744 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211722686

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf

Author : Charles W. Finkl,Christopher Makowski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319575773

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Diversity in Coastal Marine Sciences by Charles W. Finkl,Christopher Makowski Pdf

This book integrates a wide range of subjects into a coherent purview of the status of coastal marine science. Designed for the professional or specialist in coastal science, oceanography, and related disciplines, this work will appeal to workers in multidisciplinary fields that strive for practical solutions to environmental problems in coastal marine settings around the world. Examples are drawn from many different geographic areas, including the Black Sea region. Subject areas covered include aspects of coastal marine geology, physics, chemistry, biology, and history. These subject areas were selected because they form the basis for integrative investigation of salient environmental problems or perspective solutions or interpretation of historical context.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Geophysics
ISBN : WISC:89093658425

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Proceedings of the ... International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Artificial satellites in earth sciences
ISBN : MINN:31951D023634427

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Proceedings, 31st International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment by Anonim Pdf

Author : The BACC II Author Team
Publisher : Springer
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319160061

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Second Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin by The BACC II Author Team Pdf

​This book is an update of the first BACC assessment, published in 2008. It offers new and updated scientific findings in regional climate research for the Baltic Sea basin. These include climate changes since the last glaciation (approx. 12,000 years ago), changes in the recent past (the last 200 years), climate projections up until 2100 using state-of-the-art regional climate models and an assessment of climate-change impacts on terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems. There are dedicated new chapters on sea-level rise, coastal erosion and impacts on urban areas. A new set of chapters deals with possible causes of regional climate change along with the global effects of increased greenhouse gas concentrations, namely atmospheric aerosols and land-cover change. The evidence collected and presented in this book shows that the regional climate has already started to change and this is expected to continue. Projections of potential future climates show that the region will probably become considerably warmer and wetter in some parts, but dryer in others. Terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems have already shown adjustments to increased temperatures and are expected to undergo further changes in the near future. The BACC II Author Team consists of 141 scientists from 12 countries, covering various disciplines related to climate research and related impacts. BACC II is a project of the Baltic Earth research network and contributes to the World Climate Research Programme.