By Fred H. Sklar, Arnold van der Valk

ISBN-10: 9400900015

ISBN-13: 9789400900011

ISBN-10: 9401064903

ISBN-13: 9789401064903

PREFACE in the Florida Everglades, tree islands, which hide just a small percentofthis surroundings, traditionally have supplied crucial habitat for a wide selection ofterrestrial and amphibious vegetation, birds, and animals. those tree islands, notwithstanding, were one ofits least studied gains. due to their much less flood tolerant crops, tree islands are one ofthe so much delicate parts ofthe Everglades to adjustments in hydrology, and lots of tree islands were misplaced during times whilst water degrees were abnormally excessive or low. Their sensitivity to water point adjustments makes tree islands in all probability one ofthe top and most useful measures ofthe total hydrologic future health of the Everglades. for that reason, the upkeep of fit, functioning tree islands and the recovery ofthose which have been misplaced might be an immense functionality measures that might be used tojudge the luck ofthe accomplished Everglades recovery Plan (CERP). A symposium, Tree Islands ofthe Everglades, used to be hung on July 14 and 15, 1998 at Florida Atlantic college, Boca Raton, Florida. It was once subsidized via Florida heart for Environmental experiences and the South Florida WaterManagement District. This used to be the 1st medical assembly ever dedicated to tree islands. The organizers of this symposium have been Drs. Arnold van der Valk, Florida heart for Environmental stories and Iowa kingdom collage, Fred Sklar, South Florida Water administration District, and Wiley Kitchens, usa Geological Survey.

By Mark L. Brusseau, editor ... [et al.]

ISBN-10: 0841235961

ISBN-13: 9780841235960

Box demonstrations of cutting edge subsurface remediation and characterization applied sciences : creation / Mark L. Brusseau, John S. Gierke, and David A. Sabatini --
Surfactant choice standards for improved subsurface remediation / David A. Sabatini, Jeffrey H. Harwell, and Robert C. Knox --
Enhanced restoration of organics utilizing direct strength concepts / T.R. Jarosch and B.B. Looney --
Enhanced remediation demonstrations at Hill Air strength Base : creation / Philip B. Bedient, Anthony W. Holder, Carl G. Enfield, and A. Lynn wooden --
Field demonstration stories of surfactant-enhanced solubilization and mobilization at Hill Air strength Base, Utah / Robert C. Knox, Bor Jier Shau, David A. Sabatini, and Jeffrey H. Harwell --
Demonstration of surfactant flooding of an alluvial aquifer infected with dense nonaqueous part liquid / C.L. Brown, M. Delshad, V. Dwarakanath, R.E. Jackson, J.T. Londergan, H.W. Meinardus, D.C. McKinney, T. Oolman, G.A. Pope, and W.H. Wade --
In-situ solubilization through cosolvent and surfactant-cosolvent combinations / Michael D. Annable, James W. Jawitz, Randall ok. Sillan, and P. Suresh Rao --
Design and function of a box cosolvent flooding try out for nonaqueous section liquid mobilization / Ronald W. Falta, Cindy M. Lee, Scott E. Brame, Eberhard Roeder, Lynn wooden, and Carl Enfield --
Field try of cyclodextrin for superior in-situ flushing of multiple-component immiscible natural liquid illness : undertaking review and preliminary effects / Mark L. Brusseau, John E. McCray, Gwynn R. Johnson, Xiaojiang Wang, A. Lynn wooden, and Carl Enfield --
Field try of cyclodextrin for more advantageous in-situ flushing of multiple-component immiscible natural liquid illness : comparability to water flushing / John E. McCray, Kenneth D. Bryan, R. Brent Cain, Gwynn R. Johnson, William J. Blanford, and Mark L. Brusseau --
Field try of air sparging coupled with soil vapor extraction / John S. Gierke, Christopher L. Wojick, and Neil J. Hutzler --
Performance evaluation of in-well aeration for the remediation of an aquifer infected via a multicomponent immiscible liquid / William J. Blanford, E.J. Klingel, Gwynn R. Johnson, R. Brent Cain, Carl Enfield, and Mark L. Brusseau --
Groundwater remediation of chromium utilizing zero-valent iron in a permeable reactive barrier / Robert W. Puls, Robert M. Powell, Cynthia J. Paul, and David Blowes --
Considerations for cutting edge remediation know-how review sampling plans / Michael J. Barcelona and David R. Jaglowski --
The partitioning tracer technique for in-situ detection and quantification of immiscible beverages within the subsurface / Mark L. Brusseau, N.T. Nelson, and R. Brent Cain --
Investigation of partitioning tracers for settling on coal tar saturation in soils / Nancy J. Hayden and Harold C. Linnemeyer --
A biotracer try out for characterizing the in-situ biodegradation capability linked to subsurface structures / Mark L. Brusseau, Joseph J. Piatt, Jiann-Ming Wang, and Max Q. Hu --
A diffusive tracer-test process for investigating the effect of mass move approaches on field-scale solute shipping / Mark L. Brasseau, Q. Hu, N.T. Nelson, and R. Brent Cain --
Contaminant shipping and destiny in a resource area of a chlorinated-solvent infected Superfund web site : evaluation and preliminary result of a sophisticated website characterization undertaking / Mark L. Brusseau, J.W. Rohrer, T.M. Decker, N.T. Nelson, and W.R. Linderfelt

By Brigitte Klose

ISBN-10: 3662435772

ISBN-13: 9783662435779

ISBN-10: 3662435780

ISBN-13: 9783662435786

Dieses Lehrbuch behandelt die zentralen Inhalte der Meteorologie für Studenten der Geographie, Hydrologie, Ozeanographie, Meteorologie, Nautik und Klimatologie. In der zweiten Auflage wurde das Buch hinsichtlich der Klimatologie und Aerosolphysik erweitert. Eingang fanden auch die Lösungen der Übungsaufgaben sowie zahlreiche neue Abbildungen und Tabellen.

Meteorologie beschäftigt sich mit den atmosphärischen Zuständen und Prozessen in ihrer raumzeitlichen Verteilung, wobei die Raumskalen Größenordnungen von wenigen Millimetern bis hin zu einigen tausend Kilometern aufweisen und die Zeitskalen im Bereich von Millisekunden bis zu einigen Millionen Jahren variieren, so dass eine große Mannigfaltigkeit von atmosphärischen Bewegungsformen und Strukturen existiert.

Das Werk beruht auf langjährigen Lehrerfahrungen an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin und am Fachbereich Seefahrt der Jade-Hochschule. Es bietet Studenten und Lehrkräften einen praxisbezogenen und fundierten Einstieg in die Zustände und Prozesse der uns umgebenden Umwelt.

Brigitte Klose arbeitete nach ihrem Studium zunächst im Flugwetterdienst und als Fernsehmeteorologe, ehe sie an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin promovierte und habilitierte. Von 1989 bis 1996 conflict Sie Dozentin am Fachbereich Meteorologie und Geophysik der Humboldt-Universität und von 1997 bis zu ihrer Emeritierung Professorin für Navigation und Meteorologie am Fachbereich Seefahrt in Elsfleth (Jade-Hochschule). Neben zahlreichen Veröffentlichungen entstand 2008 Ihr Lehrbuch zur Meteorologie.

By Maria A. Mimikou, Evangelos A. Baltas, Vassilios A. Tsihrintzis

ISBN-10: 1466581301

ISBN-13: 9781466581302

Hydrology and water assets research might be checked out jointly, yet this can be the one e-book which offers the suitable fabric and which bridges the distance among clinical methods and functions in a single textual content. New equipment and courses for fixing hydrological difficulties are defined in a concise and quite simply obtainable shape.

incorporates a variety of illustrations and tables, with absolutely solved instance difficulties built-in in the textual content. It describes a scientific remedy of varied floor water estimation innovations; and offers exact remedy of concept and purposes of groundwater move for either steady-state and unsteady-state stipulations; time sequence research and hydrological simulation; floodplain administration; reservoir and move move routing; sedimentation and erosion hydraulics; city hydrology; the hydrological layout of easy hydraulic buildings; garage spillways and effort dissipation for flood keep an eye on, optimization innovations for water administration tasks; and techniques for uncertainty analysis.

It is written for complex undergraduate and graduate scholars and for practitioners. Hydrologists and water-related execs could be helped with an unusual time period or a brand new topic region, or take delivery of a formulation, the process for fixing an issue, or information at the laptop programs that are to be had, or proven the way to receive values from a desk of knowledge. For them it's a compendium of hydrological perform instead of technological know-how, yet enough clinical heritage is equipped to allow them to appreciate the hydrological procedures in a given challenge, and to understand the constraints of the tools offered for fixing it.

By Úrsula Oswald Spring

ISBN-10: 3642054315

ISBN-13: 9783642054310

Water assets in Mexico are threatened through shortage, toxins and weather switch. In twenty years water intake doubled, generating water pressure in dry seasons and semi-arid and arid areas. Water rigidity rises because of actual and financial rigidity. In seven components a multidisciplinary group analyzes hydrological methods in basins and their interplay with weather, soil and biota. Competing water use in agriculture, and family wishes require discount rates, decontamination tactics and desalination to fulfill the becoming call for. Water caliber impacts wellbeing and fitness and ecosystems. This creates conflicts and cooperation which may be better by means of public coverage, establishment development and social organization.

By Uri Kafri, Yoseph Yechieli

ISBN-10: 3642139434

ISBN-13: 9783642139437

ISBN-10: 3642139442

ISBN-13: 9783642139444

The proposed ebook offers with the function of adjusting groundwater base point at the adjoining hydrological platforms. It summarizes, compiles and compares result of present and paleo base degrees, utilizing examples from world wide. A class is given for marine or continental groundwater base degrees with distinct consciousness to these less than sea point. the standards controlling base point adjustments and the tools for his or her selection are elaborated. Holocene and destiny alterations are mentioned with their impact on salinization and flushing mechanisms of groundwater. All issues defined within the booklet are followed via examples and references from all around the world.

By Bellie Sivakumar

ISBN-10: 9048125510

ISBN-13: 9789048125517

ISBN-10: 9048125529

ISBN-13: 9789048125524

This authoritative ebook offers a entire account of the basic roles of nonlinear dynamic and chaos theories in knowing, modeling, and forecasting hydrologic structures. this can be performed via a scientific presentation of: (1) details at the salient features of hydrologic platforms and at the latest theories for his or her modeling; (2) the basics of nonlinear dynamic and chaos theories, tools for chaos id and prediction, and linked concerns; (3) a assessment of the purposes of chaos conception in hydrology; and (4) the scope and strength instructions for the future.

This ebook bridges the divide among the deterministic and the stochastic faculties in hydrology, and is easily appropriate as a textbook for hydrology courses.

By Jan C. van Dam

ISBN-10: 051156449X

ISBN-13: 9780511564499

ISBN-10: 0521543312

ISBN-13: 9780521543316

ISBN-10: 052163332X

ISBN-13: 9780521633321

Water goes to be one of many key, if now not the main severe, environmental concerns within the twenty-first century end result of the escalation in socio-economic pressures at the atmosphere commonly. Any destiny weather switch or weather variability will in simple terms intensify such pressures. This quantity firstly follows the point of view of the Intergovernmental Panel on weather swap (IPCC) to deduce attainable alterations in hydrological regimes and water caliber in keeping with the outputs from a number of situations of common flow versions (GCMs). In next chapters, the prospective results of weather swap at the hydrology of every of the continents is tested. The ebook concludes with an outline of hydrological types to be used within the review of the affects of weather switch. it's going to supply a priceless advisor for environmental planners and policy-makers, and also will be of use to all scholars and researchers attracted to the potential results of weather swap.

By Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Pavel Kabat, Jörn Möltgen

ISBN-10: 3540759409

ISBN-13: 9783540759409

Sustainable water administration is a key environmental problem of the twenty first century. constructing and imposing leading edge administration ways and the way to deal with the expanding complexity and uncertainties used to be the subject matter of the 1st foreign convention on Adaptive and built-in Water administration, held in November 2007 in Basel, Switzerland. The convention quantity comprises chosen contributions on conceptual and methodological concepts and empirical insights from case experiences on very important issues reminiscent of multi-level governance, swap administration, vulnerability evaluation, environmental flows, uncertainty research and the affects of weather swap. The e-book addresses a large interdisciplinary viewers of scientists and pros from academia, undefined, and interested by coverage making.

By Howard Wheater, Soroosh Sorooshian, K. D. Sharma

ISBN-10: 0511378882

ISBN-13: 9780511378881

ISBN-10: 0521869188

ISBN-13: 9780521869188

Arid and semi-arid areas are outlined as parts the place water is at its so much scarce. The hydrological regime in those components is severe and hugely variable, they usually face nice pressures to bring and deal with freshwater assets. even though, there's no tips at the determination aid instruments which are had to underpin flood and water source administration in arid parts. UNESCO initiated the worldwide community for Water and improvement details for arid lands (GWADI), and organized a workshop of the world's prime specialists to debate those matters. This e-book offers chapters from individuals to the workshop, and contains case reports from the world's significant arid areas to illustrate version functions, and internet hyperlinks to tutorials and state-of-the-art modelling software program. This quantity is a worthwhile reference for researchers and engineers engaged on the water assets of arid and semi-arid areas.