Earth Sciences: Most read books
A Student Guide to Clima...
by ANGUS GUNN
This comprehensive reference explains in clear terms what we know about weather, from the everyday to the extreme. A Student Guide to Climate and Weather introduces students and other interested readers to the dynamic work of meteorologists and climatologists, specifically the...
(2009)
145 Reads
International Lateinamer...
Abstracts and Program
by Gerhard Wörner and Stefan Mölle...
The International Lateinamerika-Kolloquium, held in April 2009 at the Geosciences Centre of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, brings together researchers from all fields of earth sciences. The abstracts contained in this volume cover a wide range of topics on the geologi...
(2009)
54 Reads
Airports in cities and r...
research and practise
by Ute Knippenb... and Alex Wall
Für Zitate bitte die folgende URL verwenden: http://digbib.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/volltexte/1000017332 1st International Colloquium on Airports and Spatial Development, Karlsruhe, 9th - 10th July 2009 Abstract: This book is a compilation of research and practise questioning...
(2010)
39 Reads
Floods in Bangladesh
History, Dynamics and Rethinking the Role of the Himalayas
by William A. S..., Ramesh Thakur, and Edel Hughes
Is it really true that deforestation and land use practices of the Himalayan farmers are to blame for the recurring and devastating monsoon floods in the plains of the Ganga and Brahmaputra? The validity of this paradigm has been increasingly questioned. This book presents new...
(2006)
143 Reads
11. Symposium "Tektonik,...
Zusammenfassung der Tagungsbeiträge
by Sonja Phillipp, Bernd Leiss, Axel Vollbrecht, David Tanner, and Agust Gudmun...
Nicht-aktive, also im Frieden nicht aufgefüllte Verbände der Bundeswehr führen in der Militärgeschichte bis heute ein Schattendasein: Ihre Existenz war und ist der zivilen Öffentlichkeit weitgehend unbekannt. Dieses Buch versucht, am Beispiel des Panzerartilleriebataillons 25 ...
(2006)
41 Reads
Tropical rainforests and...
Proceedings International Symposium, October 5-9, 2008, Kuta, Bali, Indonesia
by Melanie Grosse, Suria Tarigan, Wolfram Lorenz, and Adam Malik
Dieser Band versammelt die Vorträge, die auf dem Kolloquium der Juristischen Fakultät der Universität Göttingen im Heinejahr 2006 gehalten wurden.
(2009)
56 Reads
Shallow turbulent wake f...
momentum and mass transfer due to large-scale coherent vortical structures
Für Zitate bitte die folgende URL verwenden: http://digbib.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/volltexte/1000003453 Abstract: Shallow turbulent wake flows are generated by large obstacles - like islands or headlands - introduced to shallow turbulent open-channel flows. Large-scale quas...
(2005)
32 Reads
Geobiology of Stromatolites
International Kalkowsky-Symposium, Göttingen, October 4-11, 2008. Abstract volume and field guide to excursions. Geobiologie der Stromatolithe
by Joachim Reitner, Nadia V Quéric, and Mike Reich
Stromatolites are the most intriguing geobiological structures of the entire history of the earth since the early beginning of the fossil record in the Archaean. Traditionally, stromatolites and related microbial sediments are interpreted as biosedimentological remains of biof...
(2008)
29 Reads
GIScience for Environmen...
Symposium Proceedings, November 2010, Campos de Jordao (Sao Paulo), Brazil
by Lúbia Vinhas, Edzer Pebesma, Gilberto Câmara, and Katharina He...
This book contains the proceedings of the first GeoChange research symposium. The GeoChange research symposium is the second cooperative workshop organized by the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and the Institute for Geoinformatics (ifgi) of the University of M&uu...
(2010)
273 Reads
An American Provence
American Provence
by Thomas Huber
"I have talked about luscious wines and succulent fruit and exquisite dinners. But there may be no more evocative experience of the two valleys than the smell of new-mown hay in the fields at dusk. If a person were to close their eyes, they could not tell if they were in Prove...
(2011)
13 Reads
Assessment of an ultrami...
by Xie, Xudong
Für Zitate bitte die folgende URL verwenden: http://digbib.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/volltexte/1362004 Abstract: The main objectives of this book are (i) to investigate the electrochemical behavior and the analytical performance of a novel ultramicroelectrode array (UMEA); (i...
(2005)
9 Reads
Heads Up!
Early Warning Systems for Climate, Water and Weather-Related Hazards
The forces of nature can have deadly and damaging consequences for societies and ecosystems that stand in their path. Early warning systems offer one of the best defenses against the adverse effects of climate, water, weather and geologic hazards, although far too often this r...
(2009)
16 Reads
Echinoderm Research 2010...
7th European Conference on Echinoderms, Göttingen, October 2 - 9, 2010
by Mike Reich, Joachim Reitner, Vanessa Roden, and Thuy Ben
Echinoderms are a vast group of spiny-skinned animals including starfish, brittle-stars, sea urchins, sand dollars, feather stars, sea lilies and sea cucumbers. These relatives of chordates and hemichordates have inhabited the world’s oceans for more than 500 million years. Mo...
(2010)
5 Reads
Potential Analysis for F...
A Spatial and Political Investment Strategy
The following report is divided into five individual parts, which together describe the political context, the natural potential and the long-term trans-national perspective for the establishment of further protected areas in Azerbaijan. Part I de"ned the national context of t...
(2009)
4 Reads
Earth Science and Human ...
by John J.W. Ro... and Trileigh Pat...
How much has human history been influenced by the earth and its processes? This volume in the _Science 101_ series describes how both slow changes and rapid, violent, ones have impacted the development of civilizations throughout history. Slow changes include variati...
(2008)
29 Reads
Variance Component Estim...
Für Zitate bitte die folgende URL verwenden: http://digbib.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/volltexte/1000007363 Abstract: Combining Terrestrial Reference Frames (TRFs) to frames of superior quality (like the ITRF) usually involves homogenisation by an empirical weighting scheme. Di...
(2007)
5 Reads
GV Annual Meeting 2009
Earth control on planetary life and environment : Abstracts
by Hilmar von E..., Joachim Reitner, and Gerhard Wörner
The 99th Annual Meeting of the Geologische Vereinigung (GV) and International Conference on Earth Control on Planetary Life and Environment, held in October 2009 at the Geosciences Centre of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, brings together researchers from all fields of...
(2009)
4 Reads
High-resolution sensitiv...
High-resolution regional ensemble climate simulations with the regional climate model COSMO-CLM are performed for Southwest Germany to study the sensitivity of meteorological and hydrological variables to parameter settings. The soil-vegetation model VEG3D is implemented into ...
(2008)
3 Reads
Chemical, Physical and M...
The scope of this work is to develop a comprehensive understanding of the aerosol pollution in the megacity Beijing. The focus lies on the interaction of anthropogenic and geogenic aerosol particles, their spatio-temporal variation, the most important pollution sources as well...
(2012)
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